DDWS provides outreach updates
For a second year, J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge staffers kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 through Oct. 15) with Family Fun Night on Sept. 20 at Lakes Park in Fort Myers. It also celebrated Latino Conservation Week, the Honrando Nuestra Historia (Honoring our History) Series, and National Public Lands Day, with educational and cultural activities for the family. Visitors enjoyed music and food, a bilingual birding walk, take-home marigold seed planting, and kid-friendly archery, plus informational tables with other conservation and cultural partners. In addition, the refuge celebrated International Walk to School Day on Oct. 2. The Roving Ranger and Blue Goose made a special appearance to greet students who walked and biked to school. The refuge thanked its community partners who joined the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge and it to provide the students with juice boxes that morning.