Got ants?  Tired of ladybug invasions in the fall?  Brought home bed bugs from your last trip?  Alabama Cooperative Extension professionals will moderatre a free webinar series that will take on all of these topics.  In 2013, most of the webinars will be on fire ants and other invasive ant specias.  Other topics for the year include bed bugs and various insects that invade homes each autumn.

Alabama Extension entomologist Dr. Kathy Flanders says these free webinars are designed for homeowners and the general public.

"We will provide them wilth sound, research-based management solutions for these pests from some of the best experts around the country," she says.  "The webinars are specifically for ordinary people wno need answers they can use."

"Participating is as simple as clicking on a web link."

Each webinar will begin at 1 p.m.

The Alabama Wildlife Federation’s Outdoor Classroom (OC) Grant Program provides financial and technical assistance to schools enrolled in the Alabama Outdoor Classroom Program that wish to create effective and sustainable outdoor classroom sites on their school grounds.

The application deadline is March 8th!

Create your next Outdoor Learning Station, Activity Kit, and/or Educational Signs using an AWF OC Grant!  Grants are available up to $500.

For more details and to download and print the AWF Outdoor Classroom Grant Guidelines and/or the Grant Proposal Application, click here.

Source: Alabama Wildlife Foundation

Students in Covington, Coffee, Crenshaw and Geneva Counties were given young trees they can raise as part of an Arbor Day program, thanks to donations by Covington Electric Cooperative and PowerSouth.
 
Fourth Grade Foresters was created to provide a simple and inexpensive way for local businesses to send the fourth graders home with a tree of their own to plant and care for.  Each fourth grader receives an individually packaged 12”-18” evergreen tree seedling. Each package also includes information about Alabama’s Arbor Day, planting and care instructions, and the name of program sponsors. 

National Arbor Day is April 26, and 640 Fourth Grade Foresters at nine local schools rolled up their sleeves to plant a tree. The goal of Fourth Grade Foresters is to help revitalize Arbor Day in America’s schools. Fourth graders at Opp Elementary School received 110 trees to take home and plant.