The 2023 Annual WNP Meeting was a blast! The event started off Saturday morning with a presentation from the City of Casper about their river restoration project. We then headed out into the field and divided into teams to mark and remove invasive Russian olive trees. After lunch, we met at the Izaak Walton League lodge for advanced training. The first training, by Dr. Brett Addis, covered modeling data in conservation science. The second training was a hands-on herpetology ID lab led by Mason.[...]

Get To Know Your Naturalist: Hello! I am Brett Addis, new to the Wyoming Naturalist Program. I am the new Associate Director for the Biodiversity Institute.[...]

Remember to keep a spot on your calendar for the WNP annual meeting, September 23 & 24! We are planning a weekend of service, learning, fun and celebration—including, but not limited to, owl banding, river cleanup, WNP training and service recognition, and a visit to the Speas Fish Hatchery. All this based from the Isaak Walton League Lodge in Casper, Saturday morning through Sunday morning. Watch for more infor-mation as the weekend approaches.[...]

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Rocky Mountain Amphibian Project: Adopt a site and survey it for amphibians once or twice this summer! Data collected in this project is used by WGFD for long-term amphibian monitoring. [...]

Mark your calendar for the WNP annual meeting, September 23 & 24! We are planning a weekend of service, learning, fun and celebration—including, but not limited to, owl banding, river cleanup, WNP training and service recognition, and a visit to the Speas Fish Hatchery.[...]

We are delighted to report that the 2023 Wyoming Naturalist Program cohort has begun training! [...]

Spend time in your favorite places watching birds–then tell us about them! In as little as 15 minutes notice the birds around you. Identify them, count them, and submit them to help scientists better un-derstand and protect birds around the world. Join this global effort on February 17-20, 2023.[...]

The Wyoming Naturalist Program awards Kathy Lichtendahl and Jennie Lawrence for service in Wyoming and the program. [...]

COMING SOON—WNP’S SECOND ANNUAL MEETING!! Saturday September 24![...]

Hope you have had time to get out and enjoy it! Reminder - if you have announcements, volunteer op-portunities or articles that you think would be a good fit for this newsletter please send them to Wyo-ming-Naturalists@uwyo.edu We greatly appreciate all the time you invest in WNP related activities![...]

Specialists from UW Extension, the Rocky Mountain Herbarium and the UW Biodiversity Institute led a “Tree and Shrub Walk” on Sunday, January 30th in the Medicine Bow National Forest at the Happy Jack Trailhead. [...]

The Wyoming Naturalist Program is Highlighted in this episode of Natural Herstory in a conversation with Dr. Dorothy Tuthill, Associate Director and Education Coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Wyoming.[...]

Wyoming Naturalist Program Highlighted in Caper Tribune: Inaugural Class of Naturalists Search Casper Mountain for Elusive Owls[...]

The Alliance of Natural Resource Outreach and Service Programs (ANROSP) conducted the ANROSP Annual Awards Ceremony as part of the organization’s 2021 Annual National Conference.[...]

As a recent transplant to the state of Wyoming, Thermopolis resident Kim Bartlett found herself in an environment quite different from the one she left behind in Missouri and Oklahoma. Her passion for the outdoors includes a love of native plants and she has been educating herself in local flora through immersion in the environment and as a student of the inaugural Wyoming Certified Naturalist Program. [...]