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SUMMARY:Lawn Lab Community Day & Bioblitz
DESCRIPTION:What happens when we stop mowing our lawns? That’s one of the questions we’re trying to answer at Lawn Lab\, and we need your help! \nWe invite you to join us for the second annual Lawn Lab bioblitz. Our goal is to collect data on what plants and animals call Lawn Lab home. If you have experience identifying plants and insects\, that’s great. If not\, we will give you all the training and tools you’ll need. \nLawn Lab is a long-term habitat restoration experiment and partnership between the Clifton Institute\, the Fauquier County Public School system\, and Fauquier County’s We Need Bees Committee\, which oversees the county’s status as a Bee City USA affiliate. In this project\, students from Grace Miller Elementary School and Liberty High School\, along with educators and scientists from the Clifton Institute\, will study the effects of reducing mowing on the biodiversity of lawns. \nPlease park in the Grace Miller Elementary School parking lot. The experimental fields are a very short walk (a couple hundred yards) southeast of the parking lot. There will be signs\, but you should be able to see our tables and staff from the parking lots and as you drive in along Catlett Road. \nCost: Free! \nAge: All ages. \nDate and time: subject to change dependent on weather. Please check your email for updates on the morning of the event. If we need to cancel or postpone\, we will also post any updates on our Facebook page. \nBy registering for this event\, you are affirming that you have read and agree to our liability release policy. \nWe are grateful to support from the Chesapeake Bay Trust\, the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation\, the Kortlandt Fund\, the Warrenton Garden Club\, the Volgenau Foundation\, and individual donors for Lawn Lab. \n 
URL:https://cliftoninstitute.org/event/lawn-lab-bioblitz/
LOCATION:Grace Miller Elementary School\, 6248 Catlett Rd\, Bealeton\, 22712
CATEGORIES:Community science
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SUMMARY:Lawn Lab Grand Opening and Bioblitz
DESCRIPTION:This fall the Clifton Institute\, in collaboration with Fauquier County Public Schools and the Fauquier County We Need Bees Committee\, is beginning an exciting new project: Lawn Lab. This experiment is all about studying what happens to life in lawns that only get mowed once a year instead of every week. Clifton staff along with students from Grace Miller Elementary School and Liberty High School will be collecting data on changes in plant and animal communities that live in a 3-acre lawn on school grounds as 2 of those acres are taken out of the normal mowing schedule. The adjacent acre will get mowed once a week as per usual. This project is a rare example of a win-win-win-win: students will spend time outside learning how to identify native plants and animals and getting hands-on experience doing scientific research\, the school campus will become better habitat for pollinators\, the county will spend less money and emit less pollution by mowing less often\, and the experiment will serve as a demonstration plot to people in the community. \nWe invite you to join us for a grand opening and bioblitz on October 19. Our goal is to collect baseline data: what plants and animals already call the Lawn Lab home? Once we have this information\, we can visit each year and see what new plant and animals show up (or which ones disappear). We don’t expect high diversity this year\, but you never know what we’ll find. If you have experience identifying plants and insects\, that’s great. If not\, we will give you all the training and tools you’ll need. We’ll send participants out in small teams to survey sections of the experimental fields and we’ll keep a leader board running to see who can find the most species! We’ll also have family-friendly activities for the younger naturalists among us. \nAt 3:30 we’ll take a break to have an official opening ceremony\, with snacks\, drinks\, and brief remarks. \nThis event is a chance to get in on the ground floor of this exciting project\, contribute to science\, and join the local community of people who want to learn about and take care of native biodiversity! All ages are welcome; children must be accompanied by a caregiver. \nWe are grateful to support from the Chesapeake Bay Trust\, the Kortlandt Fund\, the Warrenton Garden Club\, and individual donors for Lawn Lab. \nPlease park in the Grace Miller Elementary School parking lot. The experimental fields are a very short walk (a couple hundred yards) southeast of the parking lot. There will be signs\, but you should be able to see our tables and staff from the parking lots and as you drive in along Catlett Road. \nDate and time subject to change dependent on weather. Please check your email for updates on the morning of the event. If we need to cancel or postpone\, we will also post any updates on our Facebook page. \nBy registering for this event\, you are affirming that you have read and agree to our liability release policy.
URL:https://cliftoninstitute.org/event/lawn-lab-grand-opening-and-bioblitz/
LOCATION:Grace Miller Elementary School\, 6248 Catlett Rd\, Bealeton\, 22712
CATEGORIES:Adult programs,Community science,Family programs,Volunteer days
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