I apologize for not visiting the park lately and posting new blogs. I've been busy working on creating park one-sheets. A one-sheet is all of the information I can fit on the front and back of a single page, including photographs. Since our park wildlife isn't caged, I can't guarantee that any of it will be seen from one time to the next. Because of that, when I lead groups through the park, I usually carry a binder full of photographs with me so that I can show visitors photographs of what I'm talking to them about. The biggest drawback to that is that the visitors have nothing to take home with them and have to try to remember what I'm telling them. If you've ever taken a wildlife walk with me, you know how impossible that is. I can cover a lot of territory in two hours.
At our last meeting, Margery Godfrey, President of the Friends of the Hylebos side of EarthCorps - Hylebos suggested that I create some one-sheets that could be handed out to our visitors. That way people can take the information home with them and refer to it again and again. Instead of spending time in the park, I've been sitting in front of my computer, pulling up photographs from my archive, consolidating information, writing, printing, and copying the one-sheets. So far, I've created sheets on The Life Cycle of Frogs, The Life Cycle of Salmon, Habitat Restoration, Types of Habitat Within the Park, Snakes, Mammals, Birds, and Dragonflies.
I leave for Portland tomorrow. I'm going to help my daughter man her vending table at GearCon. Hopefully, when I return, I'll be able to add one-sheets on Park History, The Old Cabins, and Plants. We'll see. I'll return to my regular park blogging once I've completed this project. We hope the park one-sheets will make the park tours even better than they already are. Take care, stay cool, and I'll talk to you again when I get back home. Get out and enjoy this weather!
Teri I. Lenfest
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