FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE
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FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE
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EDGEWOOD PHOTOS WEBSITE HONORED In our last issue, we reported on the new Edgewood Photos website, http://photos.friendsofedgewood.org, which was launched on March 1. Since then, response has been extremely favorable and complimentary. The general public as well as Edgewood docents are making good use of this informative resource. The Friends of Edgewood have been invited to submit and present a paper on this website to the Society for Conservation Biology and the Society for Conservation GIS at their joint conference this June. These are two highly respected scientific organizations and we are honored to have been invited. The paper is entitled “A Participatory Web Resource for Plant Identification and Location at Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve.” The conference takes place June 24 to 28 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose. Our presentation is at 1:30 on June 28. For more information please see http://www.scgis.org/. We now have over 1200 photos covering about 2/3 of the plant species at Edgewood. Perhaps even more impressive is that we have location data for most of these plants as well so you can find the trail and quadrant in which they occur. As summer approaches, the late-flowering lilies take on the spotlight at Edgewood. You can find beautiful photographs of the Mariposa lilies by typing “mariposa” into the Matching Text box and then clicking on the Submit button. Give it a try and let us know what you think. |
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