Vermont Center for Eco Studies | Naturalist of the Year Contest

Our friends over at the Vermont Center for EcoStudies VCE and the Northern Woodlands have launched a contest for Naturalist of the Year.  If you want to be in contention for the big prize (a subscription to The Northern Woodlands Magazine), you’d better get outside and TODAY.  Look, I’m going to be honest with you.  Judging from the response they’ve gotten so far you’re not likely to win this one.  Birders are serious competitors!  Have you seen that movie, “The Big Year” with Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin?  Well these guys vying for Vermont Naturalist of the Year remind me of them.  Great competitors!  It’s not just about winning a contest, either.  Actually it’s too complicated for me to understand what it’s about, but I think it might be pretty deep.

Anyway, even if you don’t win Naturalist of the Year, with a reasonable amount of luck you might win VCE’s monthly photo-observation contest.  That would be a good stepping stone, right?  So head outside and scour Vermont’s “fields and fens, mountains and meadows, lakes and lawns”.  Take artistic, scientific or any kind of “wow” photos– maybe an amazing sighting, a neat behavior, or whatever catches your eye and email it to VCE.  Their readers will select winning photographs by who gets the most votes.

Let us know if you won by sharing your winning photos on our Facebook.  And while you’re over at VCE check out the amazing project that is the Vermont Atlas of Life.  It’s a citizen science project cataloging all Vermont’s breeding birds, butterflies, bumble bees, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and more.  You’ll be helping to save our endangered species from extinction and making the world a better place!

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