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SUMMARY:Pop-up Outing at Sadler's Park in Essex
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce our first “Pop-up” outing. These outings are intended to be informal\, casual and social\, and will take place at various locations around Essex County. We will try to send out a notice at least a week before the event.\n\nPop-ups don’t have an official leader; rather we hope those in attendance will share their knowledge\, since there is such a wide range of experiences and interests within the Club’s membership.\n\nOne or more members of the Membership Committee will be in attendance to meet at the start of the pop-up. We will also spend some time using the iNaturalist app and the ECFNC iNaturalist Project\, so if you have a smart device\, we encourage you to bring it along to help identify anything interesting we find and contribute to the Project.\n\nThe first pop-up will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday\, Aug. 5\, at Sadler’s Park (also known as Sadler’s Pond) in the Town of Essex. It will end around 9 p.m. We will meet at the Greenway entrance parking lot off Thomas Avenue (just south of where Thomas and Forest Street meet). Directions from Highway 3: turn east on Maidstone Avenue (County Road 8)\, then right onto Bell Avenue and then left onto Thomas Street. Or you can turn east off Highway 3 onto Victoria Avenue and then turn left onto Thomas Street.\n\nAdditional details: \n \nThe parking lot at Sadler’s Park is gravel and the rest of the trail we will be using is cement with no rough terrain. There are no public washrooms at Sadler’s Park\, but there are fast-food restaurants nearby with washrooms available on Maidstone Avenue. If there is light rain\, we will go ahead with the outing but if it is storming\, the outing will be cancelled. We strongly recommend bringing bug spray for mosquitoes.
URL:https://www.essexcountynature.com/event/pop-up-outing-at-sadlers-park-in-essex/
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SUMMARY:Monthly meeting
DESCRIPTION:Phragmites australis (common reed)\, is an aggressive invasive plant that is invading the Great Lakes and is dominant in Essex County wetlands and other habitats. Club President Karen Alexander has been working with phragmites in Ontario since 2011.\n\nKaren is co-founder of the Ontario Phragmites Working Group (OPWG) and served as co-chair of the OPWG from 2015 to 2021. She will share her knowledge about this plant\, how it arrived to the Great Lakes\, why it became so pervasive on the landscape and present a number of control options that have been developed in Ontario that are leading to phragmites-free shorelines and communities.\n\nThis presentation will draw on the expertise of the Invasive Phragmites Control Centre\, the Invasive Species Centre\, and the Ontario Phragmites Working Group.\n\nJoin us Wednesday\, Aug. 11\, at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom and hear from Karen about this important topic. 
URL:https://www.essexcountynature.com/event/phragmites-control-topic-of-monthly-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Pop-up Outing at East Riverside Park\, Windsor
DESCRIPTION:After the success of the club’s first pop-up outing at Sadler’s Pond in Essex\, we are happy to announce that we will be holding our second pop-up outing along the Blue Heron Trail in East Riverside Park in Windsor.\n\nWe will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday\, Aug.19\, at the parking lot in Cora Greenwood Park\, which is located on the northeast corner of Little River Boulevard and Cora Greenwood Drive in East Windsor. From here we will cross the road to get on the Blue Heron Trail\, which runs through East Riverside Park.\n\nThe Blue Heron Trail is fully paved and mostly flat except for some hills on the south side of the park. There are no public washrooms at East Riverside Park. There is a City of Windsor website page for the park that includes a map.\n\nPop-up outings are intended to be informal\, casual and social and will take place at various locations around Essex County. They will usually be announced at least a week before the date of the pop-up.\n\nThey will not have an official leader\, but rather we hope those in attendance will share their knowledge since our club members have such a wide range of experiences and interests. One or more members of the Membership Committee will be in attendance at the start of the pop-up.\n\nWe will also spend some time using the iNaturalist app and the Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club iNaturalist Project\, so if you have a smart device\, we encourage you to bring it along to help identify anything interesting we find and contribute to the project.\n\nIf there is light rain\, we will go ahead with the outing but if it is storming\, the outing will be cancelled.
URL:https://www.essexcountynature.com/event/pop-up-outing-at-east-riverside-park-windsor/
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