The Illinois River Watershed Partnership will host a Volunteer Training Day and "Bio-Blitz" from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Watershed Sanctuary in Cave Springs.
Volunteers will train to help with the partnership's expanding programs, including tree planting, interpretive tour guiding, field trip programming, green-infrastructure project installation and more, according to a news release.
Volunteers will tour the 32-acre sanctuary. The afternoon "Bio-Blitz" will let them help build a bio-inventory through identifying and documenting native plants such as the blooming Ozark Trillium; birds and other wildlife on the grounds.
The event is free and lunch will be served.
Operations are expanding at the sanctuary where the partnership is developing a nature preserve and a Watershed Learning Center with 9,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor classroom space. Plans call for more hiking trails, a fishing pier and a boardwalk on the grounds.
For more information, contact Lauren Ray at 479-220-8194 or [email protected].
NW News on 03/26/2014