Our 1st meeting of the new year will be our annual potluck supper at Stone Lodge in Stone State Park at 6:00 P.M. Bring a dish to share and your own table service. Coffee, iced tea, and lemonade will be provided. The program will be presented by Chris Anderson, Resource Naturalist with the Woodbury County Conservation Board. Chris will be doing a presentation  called "Bushcraft: The philosophy and practice of sustainable outdoors skills". He will discuss the evolution of outdoor recreation from heavy impact outdoor recreation, to modern leave-no-trace recreation, and then he will put forth the theory of positive impact outdoor recreation which blends positives from both traditional, and modern outdoor recreation. Literature related to the topic will be on display, as well as some homemade/recycled equipment.

 

The program will be presented by Nicki Nagl, Iowa's Breeding Bird Atlas Coordinator. 2008 is the 1st year of this 5 year project and Nicki will provide information on how we can continue to contribute to this important project!