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DNREC seeks volunteers to help nesting diamondback terrapins along Port Mahon Road near Little Creek

DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife is seeking volunteers to ensure terrapins are successful in their journey toward reproduction at one of many places they come ashore to nest: along the Delaware Bayshore’s Port Mahon Road near Little Creek. Fish & Wildlife staff will offer volunteer training beginning at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18 on Port Mahon Road.



Training for volunteer beachnesting bird monitors set for May 13

Volunteers who want to help protect Delaware’s endangered piping plovers and other beachnesting birds are invited to join DNREC’s monitoring team and attend a training session held by the Division of Fish & Wildlife from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 13, at Cape Henlopen State Park’s Biden Environmental Training Center.



DNREC advises: Prepare your home and outbuildings now to prevent unwanted bat residents

DNREC offers advice on how to prepare buildings for the annual move of Delaware’s bat population from hibernation site to summer maternity colonies, which are sometimes established in barns, garages, attics and homes.



Delaware students to compete in state Envirothon Thursday, April 27 in Newark

Students from around the state will meet April 27 at the University of Delaware’s Webb Farm in Newark to compete in the 22nd annual Delaware Envirothon – sponsored by the Delaware Association of Conservation Districts (DACD).



2018/19 Delaware Waterfowl and 2018 Trout Stamp winners announced

The results are in, and two artists have won top honors in the state’s Waterfowl and Trout Stamp art contests. A painting of a pintail duck and a Golden Retriever by Daniel Allard of Marengo, Ohio, will grace the 2018/19 Delaware Waterfowl Stamp, and a painting of a brook trout by Eric Jablonowski of Suwanee, Ga., will adorn the 2018 Delaware Trout Stamp.






 Pages Tagged With: "wildlife"

DNREC seeks volunteers to help nesting diamondback terrapins along Port Mahon Road near Little Creek

DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife is seeking volunteers to ensure terrapins are successful in their journey toward reproduction at one of many places they come ashore to nest: along the Delaware Bayshore’s Port Mahon Road near Little Creek. Fish & Wildlife staff will offer volunteer training beginning at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18 on Port Mahon Road.



Training for volunteer beachnesting bird monitors set for May 13

Volunteers who want to help protect Delaware’s endangered piping plovers and other beachnesting birds are invited to join DNREC’s monitoring team and attend a training session held by the Division of Fish & Wildlife from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 13, at Cape Henlopen State Park’s Biden Environmental Training Center.



DNREC advises: Prepare your home and outbuildings now to prevent unwanted bat residents

DNREC offers advice on how to prepare buildings for the annual move of Delaware’s bat population from hibernation site to summer maternity colonies, which are sometimes established in barns, garages, attics and homes.



Delaware students to compete in state Envirothon Thursday, April 27 in Newark

Students from around the state will meet April 27 at the University of Delaware’s Webb Farm in Newark to compete in the 22nd annual Delaware Envirothon – sponsored by the Delaware Association of Conservation Districts (DACD).



2018/19 Delaware Waterfowl and 2018 Trout Stamp winners announced

The results are in, and two artists have won top honors in the state’s Waterfowl and Trout Stamp art contests. A painting of a pintail duck and a Golden Retriever by Daniel Allard of Marengo, Ohio, will grace the 2018/19 Delaware Waterfowl Stamp, and a painting of a brook trout by Eric Jablonowski of Suwanee, Ga., will adorn the 2018 Delaware Trout Stamp.