http://thegrassisrattling.com Dedicated To Wildlife Conservation Since 1996 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:58:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en >компютриthe past year, the Wildlife Discovery Center at the historic Elawa Farm has undergone an extreme facelift. Now that we can see light at the end of the tunnel, we are now planning our grand re-opening later this spring. Our new Grass Is Rattling exhibit area will ble ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/146 We are very excited about the progress of the next phase of the restoration of the historic Elawa Farm where the WDC is located. By March of 2008 we'll have a new exhibit area for the Grass Is Rattling exhibit in addition to a Visitor's Center and three new ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/76 Although spring has just arrived, in just six weeks I'll be enjoying the best part of my job - leading a field herpetology trip to the Central Michigan University Biological Station on Beaver Island, Michigan. Each summer I lead groups of middle school students to the Central Michigan University ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/72 Thanks to a generous donation we are going to be renovating some vacant farm buildings at Elawa Farm.  This will result in the Grass Is Rattling exhibit hall to be moved to a larger building while adding additional classroom space.  If all goes as planned, we'll have new facilities by ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/71 That's a question I am frequently asked. Although some folks think that I endanger my life on a daily basis, nothing could be further from the truth. No different than a law enforcement officer learning proper firearm safety, I, too, follow a very strict set of safety standards ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/67 Who would think that the WDC and golf go together....but they do! Today, the Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation hosted their annual golf tournament to help raise awareness and funds for park and recreation programs. The WDC is under the umbrella of the City of Lake Forest's ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/64 Our first radio tagged fox snake is a male that is currently in shed. When snakes are getting ready to shed their skin they tend to just lie in one place for a week until they shed their old skin. This means that when we are tracking this ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/60 We recently began a radio telemetry project (Western Fox Snake, Elaphe vulpina) in collaboration with Dr. Michael Corn from the College of Lake Countyand Gary Glowacki, Wildlife Biologist with the Lake County Forest Preserve District. We are trying to better understand where these snakes go after emerging from hibernation. ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/144 The Grass Is Rattling Exhibit getting more space! By March of 2008 we'll have an additional 500 square feet by moving the exhibit to the far north machine shed. We are very excited about this move as it will allow us to convert the current GIR space into ... http://thegrassisrattling.com/archives/56