Subject: Conservation report Dec 2025
From: Terryanne Gmelch <[email-masked]>
To: Carrie O'Leary <[email-masked]>, Susan Metzger <[email-masked]>, Michele Lindsay <[email-masked]>, Lori Adams <[email-masked]>, Elinor Hart <[email-masked]>, Terryanne Gmelch <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 12:13:37 -0500

Conservation report, December 2025

Thank you conservation committee for your input at the Nov 18, 2025 club meeting.

We decided on two projects. We need your input on which to select for the flower show conservation project.

An important theme is outreach to the larger community.

The idea is to do the project at some point before the flower show and report on it in the form of a poster at the flower show.

Note: we are not stopping our water conservation project, which is ongoing and looking good!

Here are brief descriptions of the bioblitz and  Pollinator Pathway:

A bioblitz is a group activity at a site selected by the group. Everyone spreads out at the site and photographs/documents as many species as possible. This is often done using inaturalist.org.  https://inaturalist.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/151000194866

People/groups outside of our club can join us.

Pollinator Pathway is a project in which people and their local communities restore and connect habitat to make it suitable as a pollinator pathway.  https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/start-a-pathway  People/groups outside of our club can join us.

These are both fun and useful.

The good news is: the one not selected as the flower show project will be used as a club activity at a future meeting in 2026.

Respectfully submitted

Terryanne  Maenza-Gmelch

conservation chair