Update: Workshop is postponed until further notice
Some of my readers already know I put on a free Beginning Outdoor Photography Workshop on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge each spring in March, usually during their annual swan day event.
Well, for the past 2 years we haven’t been able to host the photography class due to the covid-19 epidemic.
This fall, however, if we are able, I am working on putting together another free photography class at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Wildlife Education Center at Farmington Bay WMA.
The purpose of this event, however, will be more than just a photography class.
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We are planning on hosting a full monarch butterfly event, of sorts, with a milkweed planting party of some kind on the Farmington Bay visitors center grounds to help the troubled monarch butterfly.
A butterfly expert has agreed to attend and give his insights on the monarch butterfly, and showy milkweed seeds will be made available for participants to plant along walkways on the nature preserve, with the hopes of having some small packets available for attendees to take home and plant in their yards as well, if desired.
The whole purpose of this event is to help educate and inform the public about the current decline of the monarch butterfly population with an effort to encourage more plantings of milkweed, not only on the preserve but in other locations as well.
My offering for this event is to help encourage a high attendance by doing a free outdoor photography class. All of this is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, October 23, 2021, at the Farmington Bay visitors center, in Farmington, Utah.
More information will be posted on our blog when some of the details are worked out so feel free to subscribe to our blog for updates on the event.
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If you know of anybody that is a monarch butterfly enthusiast, or an outdoor photographer interested in learning more about nature photography, please feel free to share this post with them to help get the word out.
We want a huge turnout so please share this post on your favorite social media outlets and let’s help the troubled monarch butterfly by helping educate and get people interested in learning about the importance milkweed has for the monarch.
