You’ll be happy to know that all the volunteers at the Lindsey museum are now fully educated about our work in Martinez and why beavers matter. Fun group with a good focus on animals of course, I nominated beaver as the most important member of the wildlife club to save. Now my work is officially done and I just need to finish the Enos Mills film.

If I’m not too busy playing this, that is.

New smartphone game lets you solve real-world ecological puzzles

EcoBuilder, which is downloadable now on smartphones and tablets, teaches players how ecosystems work and aims to crowdsource solutions to unsolved ecological puzzles.

Ecosystem research looks at how animals and plants interact with each other and their environment. Climate change and other human interventions pose ongoing threats to how ecosystems function, resulting in changes to carbon flows and even extinctions of certain species.

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Gosh that looks like fun. I know just what I’ll be building. It starts like this: *click on any picture to review it),