As you may have guessed, I am very involved with Washington Square Park (WSP) Eco Projects, an initiative that celebrates the diversity of nature found in the park via a map and events. On May 2, we co-hosted with New York Spark Your Creativity (SPY) a smartphone photo hunt of local greenspaces. The map and plant […]
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The children (and their parents) who participated in the WSP Eco Projects nature scavenger hunt last fall had a good time. I’ve been asked many times when there will be another nature scavenger hunt in the park. Unfortunately there isn’t one planned for the spring but you could certainly use the guide we developed for the […]
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On a beautiful Saturday last month, 16 families participated in the inaugural Nature Scavenger Hunt in Washington Square Park. The scavenger hunt was a project of WSP Ecology in collaboration with Julie Cramer of the NYU Conservation Education program. Washington Square Park is naturally divided into four quadrants. A guide was prepared for each quadrant […]
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