Tonight! Fort Colllins Audubon Society hosts “Grandview Cemetery, My Quality-Of-Life Saver During A Pandemic"

[Andrew Monson]

Fort Collins Audubon invites you to join a virtual program (via Zoom) featuring David Leatherman, a Forest Entomologist and Avid Birder. Dave will be presenting "Grandview Cemetery, My Quality-Of-Life Saver During A Pandemic" tonight, Thursday, March 11th, 2021; Announcements at 7:00pm and Program at 7:20pm.  The presentation will also be recorded for future viewing.

Enter the following link on your web browser at or before 7 p.m. and follow the instructions to join the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89316524871

Dave writes: ”COVID-19 changed all our lives in 2020 and continues to do so.  All of us had personal decisions to make in light of the ever-changing public health guidelines and our own sense of what is right.  Early on I decided it was “essential” to stay local, but go outside and continue monitoring the local life of Grandview Cemetery.  Between mid-March and December 31, 2020 I visited this memorial sanctuary exactly 175 days.  This presentation details how delving deeper into a place I already knew well kept me sane, and yielded significant new information.  Ironies abound when you consider the setting was a place associated with death, during a pandemic, amid 20,000 souls who without fail stayed compliant 6 feet ...under.  Two mountain bird species were documented nesting in Fort Collins for the first time.  A European insect import revealed itself as a life-saving staple following adverse weather that eliminated other wildlife foods.  An elk showed up, as confused as the rest of us.    Masks appeared on headstone portraits.  And the question arose, 'Is it safe to pick up those sliced tee shots lying in Section 7?'”

Andrew Monson

PR Chair, FCAS

Fort Collins, CO