Date: 1/19/2026
Subject: Continuing Education January 20
From: Margie Smotherman
Dear NCAMN,
All of the January NiT classes are being held at Bull Shoals White River State Park and are available to you for hours, but you must register on the NCAMN calendar.
Morning sessions will run from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. with afternoons going from 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Don’t forget to bring lunch and your own “mess kit.”
*January 24—AM program Beekeeping presented by James Rein known as The Bee Man of Arkansas
PM program Archeology presented by Michelle M. Rathgaber, PhD from the Arkansas Archeological Survey
*January 31—AM program (9-11) Monarch Butterflies presented by Alyson Hoge, Managing Editor of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
PM program (12:30-3:00) Nighttime: Protecting and Observing the Night Sky presented by Jeff Hoeper
Other In-Person Continuing Education Opportunities:
*February 9 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Fred Berry Crooked Creek Nature Center
Love Among the Stars
Jeff Hoeper will provide a fanciful retelling of the convoluted myths associated with Perseus, Andromeda, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, and Cetus. After this myth-making we will go outside for an amusing constellation tour and some telescopic observing. Free and open to the public. Signing up will get you an email if we have to use the rain date (Feb. 10). Register on the NCAMN calendar.
Virtual CE
*Wednesday, January 21 at 6:00 p.m. Central Time Wild Ones, Plant Baby Plant, and Nurture Natives are offering a free national webinar: “Intergenerational Care for Land and Community: A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer and Esther Bonney.” Together they will explore how small local actions, from school gardens to community plantings, can become part of a wider web of reciprocity and repair.
To register, visit: https://wildones.org/conversation-with-robin-wallkimmerer-esther-bonney/
*Monarch Joint Venture Conservation Webinar Series
https://monarchjointventure.org/events/monarch-conservation-webinar-series
Here are just the first few in this series. Visit the link above to learn more details about times. Visit the link below to sign up.
January 27: Community to Conservation: How participatory science is closing knowledge gaps and driving conservation presented by Jennifer Thieme, Monarch Joint Venture and Rich Hatfield, Xerces Society
February 24: Designing Monarch Overwintering Habitat in California: Advances in Measuring Canopy Structure and Modeling Microclimate, presented by Stu Weiss, Creekside Science
March 24: A Journey Through the Monarch’s Winter Home: The Sights, Sounds, and Science of the migratory monarch butterfly colonies, presented by Court Whelan, MJV Board Member, Natural Habitat Adventures
https://secure.qgiv.com/for/monarchconservationwebinarseries/event/2mcwsc/
Don’t forget to log your hours.