Monday, September 19, 2016

More CISMA events added- Please sign up to help educate!

Hello All!
We are gearing up for our outreach season and have several public events coming up!   If you wanted to help staff an event, we have a bin full of outreach supplies to lend you.  We can get it as far as Lee County to hand it off as long as we get it back in time for the next event.  

If you have an event you are already planning to attend in your area, please let me know so we can add it to our list. Any educational event in our 5 county region counts!
Here is a list of some events we have so far:
1)     National Estuaries Day at RBNRR-September 24th-  Greg C. and Ian B.
 2)  Sunflower Festival-Pepper Ranch Preserve/ Immokalee October 1st  - Dexter,  Marvin and Erin?        
3)      Ding Darling Days, Oct 16th   Sanibel Island  2-3 volunteers needed  
4)      Panther Festival and Pet Amnesty Day @Naples Zoo- Saturday November 5th- Ian, Hanah, Greg, Marvin, Karyn, Andrew West, Dan, Erin will talk to veterinarians Can use a couple more people
5)      Naples Brewery- November 12th- will be promoting a new Python microbrew and CISMA can be there with table to educate folks.-Ian,      Annisa?
6)  Charlotte Harbor Nature Festival- November 19th- 2 volunteers needed
7)     BICY Swamp Heritage Festival- Dec. 3rd- Karen, Moe, Dexter, Marvin  
8)   Burrowing Owl Festival- Cape Coral- February 25,  2017- 2-3 volunteers needed
9) Festival in the Woods- Picayune Strand State Forest- February 18th - Erin plus 1-2 volunteers needed 
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us!

Sincerely your SWFL CISMA Co-Chairs,

Christal Segura
Senior Environmental Specialist
Collier County Conservation Collier Program
Collier County Parks and Recreation
15000 Livingston Road Naples, FL 34109
(239) 289-3310 cell    

and

 Erin P. Myers, DVM, MS
Private Lands Biologist
US Fish & Wildlife Service
12085 SR 29 South
Immokalee, FL 34142
239-657-8009 (office)
239-370-6302 (cell)