• Date: September 7, 2019
  Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
  Location: Moore Memorial Park
  3050 Northridge Parkway
  Ames, IA 50014

Join Prairie Rivers of Iowa for their Prairies and Pollinators Field Day on September 7 at Moore Memorial Park in Ames. The field day is held in the Big Bluestem Shelter and goes 1-3pm and will feature speakers and tours of the local prairie and wetlands. 

Tours of the local prairie and wetlands will be given twice in 30 minute sessions.  These tours will teach guests about plants that are blooming in the early fall season as well as the bumblebees that feed off them.  Guests will learn about the benefits of a prairie in the middle of an urban area including runoff and erosion control, nutrient reduction, and vital habitat for pollinators and wildlife.  Guests will be encouraged to find and photograph bumblebees during the habitat tour to try and locate the endangered Rusty-Patched Bumblebee. 

Speakers will be on hand throughout these tours to answer any questions participants might have about specific plants or pollinators that they see, as well as provide assistance to landowners looking to establish pollinator habitat in on their own land. 

Event Agenda

• 1:00pm-3:00pm: Informational Booths Open
• 1:10pm-1:25pm: Welcome and short program
• 1:30pm-2:00pm: Prairie Tour and Bumblebee Hunt 1
• 2:15pm-2:45pm: Prairie Tour and Bumblebee Hunt 2
• 2:45pm-3:00pm: Q&A with experts

Speakers: David Stein, Watershed Coordinator at Prairie Rivers of Iowa; Sarah Nizzi, Farm Bill Pollinator Conservation Planner & NRCS Partner Biologist at The Xerces Society; Seth Moore, Environmental Specialist at Iowa DNR.

For more information, please visit prrcd.org!