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Free YardMapping Session, Monday July 15

From: "Chrys B. Gardener" <cab69 AT cornell.edu>
To: "fingerlakespermaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org" <fingerlakespermaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Free YardMapping Session, Monday July 15
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:08:39 +0000

Free Yard Mapping Session at Tompkins County Public Library

Monday July 15, 6:00-8:00 pm

Are you interested in helping to create more bird-friendly habitat in your neighborhood? Come to a free session on how to use an online program called YardMap, hosted by Professor Josh Cerra of the Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture. Professor Cerra will talk about the goals of YardWorks and how to get involved in the project. He will demonstrate how to use the YardMap program and laptop computers will be available for participants to map their own yards at the session, or you can bring your own.

The YardWorks project is a project partnership between the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's YardMap program and Cornell Landscape Architecture, and in collaboration with Cornell Cooperative Extension. YardWorks offers an opportunity to work with multiple landowners on coordinating larger networks of bird-friendly habitat at the scales of both their neighborhood and their yards.

Enter to win free landscaping plans for your neighborhood!
YardWorks is currently looking for two communities within the state of New York to work with our landscape design studios to develop goals and plans for more bird-friendly habitats, and are hosting a competition for interested neighborhoods. It is very easy to submit! Each neighborhood must have at least five participants willing to work with a professor-student team to create schematic plans and design concepts for their property and the surrounding area. The contest deadline has been extended to Monday July 22.

You do not need to attend the free Yard Mapping session to enter – you can also just go to the YardWorks website at http://www.yardmap.org/ and map your own yard (this takes about 10-15 minutes) then encourage four of your neighbors to map their yards and enter your group into the contest. Your neighborhood could win free landscape consultation and customized garden plans from Cornell’s Department of Landscape Architecture, to help make your neighborhood an incredible habitat for birds and people!

See more at: http://ccetompkins.org/calendar/13/06/14/free-yardmapping-session

Free YardMapping Session, Monday July 15, Chrys B. Gardener, 07/09/2013