Geauga Park District
October 4, 2018 by Staff Report

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Join the park district’s Natural Resource Management and learn about the established meadows at Frohring Meadows.

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For more information on these programs, contact the park district at 440-286-9516 or visit them online at www.geaugaparkdistrict.org.

 

Conservation Seed Collection

Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to noon

Join the park district’s Natural Resource Management and learn about the established meadows at Frohring Meadows. Local researchers will also explain how vegetation monitoring and research can help track restoration and diversity of meadows. Then help collect seed from native wildflowers and grasses. Seed will be used for future meadow establishment and pollinator plantings in the parks. Participants will be able to take a sampling of seed home.Registration is required.

Fall At Observatory Park

Geauga Park District’s Observatory Park in Montville Township is open daily 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Labor Day through Memorial Day, and naturalist Chris Mentrek is eager to show guests around this International Dark Sky Park during the following upcoming programs this fall.

Naturalist-led night sky viewings continue at the recently renovated Nassau Astronomical Station, with its huge research-grade telescope, these Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.: Oct. 13, 20 and 27, Nov. 10 and 17 and Dec. 15 and 29. Members of the Chagrin Valley Astronomical Society participate on Oct. 20 and Nov. 17.

Enjoy full moon programs on Oct. 24 (The Hunter’s Moon) from 7-8:30 p.m.; Nov. 24 (The Beaver Moon) from 7-8:30 p.m.; and Dec. 22 (The Buck Moon) from 6-7:30 p.m., followed by night sky viewing until 11 p.m. if weather permits.

Hour-long hands-on astronomy education will be presented Fridays, from 7-8 p.m., Oct. 12 and 26 (Ohio’s Ancient Sky-Watchers), Nov. 9 (Make a Particle Detector) and Dec. 14 and 28 (The Southern Sky), again followed by night sky viewing until 11 p.m. if weather permits.

Parents may now register their children ages 3-5 for Astrotots: Super Sunabout the incredible super powers of the sun on Nov. 2, from 10-11 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m., and Nov. 3, from 1-2 p.m.

Finally, “Astro-Nat” Chris will open the Robert McCullough Science Center and Oberle ObservatorySundays, Oct. 14 and 28, Nov. 11 and 25, and Dec. 16 and 30, from 1-4 p.m., all featuring The Sky Tonight Planetarium Shows at 2 p.m. The show on Oct. 14 will feature a musical theme to mark the 100th anniversary of composer Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.”