>>CITY/TOWN ORGANIZERS
... Not a city/town organizer? Contact Cindy Cormier (617-489-3883,
cindy.cormier@maccweb.org)
to sign up for Biodiversity Days.
Welcome
to Biodiversity Days! Thank you for volunteering to organize events
in your community. Below are guidelines and resources
to help you plan successful events.
Organizer
Guidelines
- Schedule
and plan free naturalist-led nature walks (with or without
data gathering) for the public.
- Rally
citizen participation by publicizing these walks and related events
in the local press: Publicity. Also
consider outreach to community groups, public officials, and other media
outlets.
- Involve
a local school, classroom or youth organization.
- Ensure
that data (if collected) is entered into the state Biodiversity
Database
(see below for details).
- Host
a kick-off and/or wrap-up gathering to share experiences and information
on the species that were sighted.
- Help
us improve Biodiversity Days by forwarding sign-in sheets and participant
surveys to MACC, and completing an online survey.
Planning
Tools
Biodiversity Days offers a unique collaborative opportunity for individuals
and organizations to work together to benefit their community.
Are you
a new city/town organizer? There may be a previous organizer in your community
who would like to work with you as a co-organizer or simply provide advice:
Contact
info of past city/town organizers 
Do you need
help finding naturalists to lead field trips? We will connect you with
trip leaders who contact us, but you might also talk to local nature clubs,
bird-watching groups, dive clubs, etc. for experts. Individuals who participated
in past Biodiversity Days may want to take part again:
Names
and affiliations of past nature walk leaders
Managing
Community Events: Log
in Here
Once logged in, you will be directed to the welcome page.
If you do not have a UserID and password you can register for both
from the "Log
in Here" page.
From
here you can:
• Register
a Trip
• Register a Trip Leader (they can also register
themselves through the above registration page)
• Manage Trips/Trip Leaders – if you are
a city/town organizer, you can keep tabs on all the registered events
in your town.
• Report Sightings (i.e. enter species observation
data into the state Biodiversity Database). This will only become available
to you and trip leaders after the date of the trip has passed.
Ideas
for Trips
Suggestions for trip
titles and themes 
We strongly
encourage you to focus on existing conservation lands as well as on lands
that are on, or adjacent to, parcels that face impending development pressure.
You can
download species checklists and information about past Biodiversity Days
events from the:
EOEA
Biodiversity Information Page.
Some
areas useful for planning trips include:
• Browse and download Checklists of common coastal
or inland species
• Search “Species list for a town”
– see what’s already been found in your community.
• Under “Results”, go to “Results
from the database for a trip, regardless of date” to see what areas
in your town have been visited during past trips.
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