EVENT: Volunteering at Kellogg Bird Sanctuary

We'll be sending out a reminder about this for the next few days. We really need to get a rough estimate of how many people want to attend. So, if you know you can go, let us know! (rhyming was planned)

Event: Volunteering at Kellogg Bird Sanctuary in Kalamazoo! The Club will be working with swans, taking down cages and working on some of the other enclosures. This event was a lot of fun last spring and is a great thing to do for the Sanctuary. It's a good volunteer experience to put on your resume as well. If you don't know, Kellogg Bird Sanctuary is part of the Kellogg Biological Station, which is owned by MSU (website). You don't have to have any prior experience and you don't have to be a dues paying member to attend.

When: Saturday, October 2nd from 9-2pm. Lunch will be provided! As with most other events, we will meet in the parking lot of the Natural Resources Building at 7:30am and figure out carpooling from there. We want to get people back in time to go to/watch the football game (3:30).

Please RSVP to this event ASAP if you want to go. The lady at KBS is trying to get a rough head count for projects. We need drivers! If you can drive please include that in your RSVP, along with how many people you can take! RSVP to msufwclub@gmail.com Don't miss out on this great volunteer opportunity! Click here to see some pictures from our visit in the spring!

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IM SOCCER TEAM!

If you are at all interested in playing on the MSU FW Club soccer team aka 'The Polar Bears', please email us! You don't have to be "skilled", or have to play every week either. Games will be about once a week and are only 20 minute halves (x2). We will be needing subs!!

Even if you didn't get a chance to sign up at the meeting, let us know if you can make it to a game! If you did sign up, please let us know if you cannot make it to a game.

Our first game is this Sunday 9/19 at 10:00 pm. The games will be played on the Munn fields just south of the Breslin Center (where Sparticipation was held).

Here is a link to the schedule.

Important: Bring your MSU ID's to the game !!! The team listed first on the schedule wears dark shirts. (any black, blue, red etc. shirt that you can find) and the second wears white!

EVENT: Bird Mist Netting!

Emily Johnston (a PhD student in the FW Department), will be taking the club mist netting this Saturday at Rose Lake. We will be meeting behind the Natural Resources Building at 6:30am and head back to campus around 10/11am.

The goal for this event is to demonstrate wild bird capture and handling techniques used in research. You will learn bird extraction techniques, identification, proper holds, measurements, sexing, aging, tick-plucking and more! This is a great thing to put on your resume and is always a lot of fun!

If you would like to go, but need a ride, everyone will be meeting at 6:30am behind Natural Resources to drive. Rose lake is about 15 minutes northeast of campus.

IMPORTANT: THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN ON SATURDAY, IN WHICH CASE, WE WILL CANCEL BY FRIDAY NIGHT AND TRY AGAIN ON SUNDAY. CHECK YOUR EMAIL ON FRIDAY NIGHT FOR A CANCELATION!

Here is a map for drivers:


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HELP HERPTILES AT MARSHALL OIL SPILL!!

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to help wildlife at the Marshall Oil Spill. This has been a real tragedy, but you can help clean up the mess! Here is the information that was announced at our Club meeting tonight:

"Currently, I am involved with helping clean up oiled herps at the Marshall oil spill and we are in desperate need of some more volunteers. We just hit turtle #1000, a week ago Thursday, from the contaminated river in need of cleaning and had 81 more come in on Friday. Volunteers typically help with husbandry duties, such as setting up habitats, cleaning, feeding, and checking water levels, as well as with the tedious and time-consuming process of cleaning the oil off of the turtles.

Prior to volunteering, a mandatory 4-hour HAZWOPR training session must be completed. This course is currently offered on Sundays at 1:00 in Marshall, but it is possible to schedule a different time if there is demand for it. I would be willing to drive anyone for regular volunteering on the weekends or maybe a day of the week as well depending on schedule. This Sunday, September 19^th, a group will be going down for the training and we welcome anyone would wants to help out! Additionally, if there is anyone willing to drive, that would be greatly appreciated too.

1I think that this would be a great service opportunity for anyone interested in wildlife/herps in general. Plus, in the past month that I have been helping out there, there have been many wildlife professionals, as well as people from zoos across the country (Toledo, Detroit, Potter Park, Binder Park, Ft. Wayne, etc.) that are coming to help clean, and they can be really interesting and insightful to talk to."

There is already a group of people signed up to go help. Email Alex Prediger (predige1@msu.edu) if you are interested in helping out!

Volunteer Experience with Grad Student!!!

Don't miss out on this opportunity! These kinds of experiences can lead to paying positions and other opportunities.

Here's the announcement from Kara Stevens, who is a 2nd year PhD student in FW:

"I am looking for a volunteer to help me with data entry from some research I did over the summer. I am doing fisheries research in Nicaragua in the Pearl Lagoon estuary and I have lots of sheets of data on fishermen catch, gear type, location and whether the fish ended up in the market or was consumed locally, what was thrown back, etc.. People there are mainly catching snook, weakfish, catfish, croaker and smaller amounts of lots of other species. The hours are flexible. I am looking for someone to start immediately, and the work would probably take until the end of this semester to complete. I am looking for someone who is responsible, professional and is interested in fisheries."

Contact Kara Stevens at stevenskara@yahoo.com. Her room is 32 Natural Resources and she can be reached there as well.

First Meeting of the Year!

Hi all,

Hope everyone had a fantastic summer! Just wanted to let people know that our first meeting of the year will be next Thursday September 9th at 6:30 in either room 221 or 222 Natural Resources. We will be giving a short introduction to the club and doing doing some sort of activity. So, come say hi to everyone! Seriously, think about it..