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We have canceled all public activities for the foreseeable future.
Jim will do this presentation with Zoom.

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Pollinators are in trouble. You can help. Jim Sirch will show how to create A Safe Haven for Pollinators: Creating a Backyard Oasis by improving habitat in your yard for birds, bees and butterflies. This talk will provide information and resources for both the beginner and experienced wildlife gardener alike. Even if you don’t have a large area to work with, you can plant it and the pollinators will come.

Jim Sirch is Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Jim has a keen interest in native plants and animals. He is currently President of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust. He also was cofounder of the Southern New England Herpetological Association and helped establish the Connecticut Amphibian Monitoring Project, which monitored amphibians on 15 sites across the state. Recently, Jim started a new chapter of Frogwatch USA, a citizen science program that tracks frog populations through call surveys. Jim has also conducted breeding bird research for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Jim received funding and created a bird and butterfly garden at Bear Path School in Hamden, Connecticut and lectures widely on ways to increase backyard wildlife diversity.

Jim partnered with the New England Wild Flower Society for the NSF-funded Go Botany: An Online Guide to the Flora of New England and was involved in beta testing activities with high school students. Currently Jim helps create interpretive signage for Schoolyard Habitat and Urban Oasis sites for the Greater New Haven Urban Refuge Partnership. Jim was featured in the Members Making a Difference section of the Summer 2016 issue of the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine.