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Aton Forest // PO Box 509 // Norfolk, CT 06058

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Vernal Pool and Amphibian
Identification and Ecology
Saturday April 27th
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Aton Forest Headquarters
270 North Colebrook Road, Norfolk, CT

This workshop will give participants the knowledge to identify our local amphibians as adults, larvae, and eggs in the field and in the classroom. Identification of these animals will be based on physical characteristics as well as by calls. Instruction on how to locate and identify vernal pools and collect data for inventories and monitoring will also be covered. There will be classroom instruction and time in the field to study vernal pools.

Location: Aton Forest Headquarters, 270 North Colebrook Rd., Norfolk, CT 06058.

Tuition: $25
SIGNUP FOR THIS WORKSHOP HAS PAST
For more information/change of date due to weather, please go to our website at www.atonforest.org or visit us on Facebook (search Aton Forest).
You may also contact us at (860)248-1053 or contact@atonforest.org.
Workshops limited to 16 participants. Registration and payment required in advance. Continuing Education Units will be available if requested at least a week in advance. Please contact us for more information.

Refreshments provided; bring a bag lunch if you wish.

MIKE AURELIA is a member of the Aton Forest, Inc. board of directors and past President and is a Certified Wetlands Scientist. He has worked with wetland ecosystems for decades including time as Director of the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency for the town of Greenwich, CT.

JOHN ANDERSON  is executive director of Aton Forest, Inc. and the Aton Forest Research Fellow. He is a naturalist who has monitored vernal pools and amphibians around Norfolk and Colebrook for many years and studies the plants, animals and ecology in and around Aton Forest.