Bee's

The Rangers assist Dr. Reithel in repurposing some old bee traps.  The lab needed cleaning and the Rangers were happy to assist.

This weeks writing prompt:  It's 1821 in Gothic CO. and that's your home.  Who are you and why do you live here?

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Week Two

Hello, I must be going.  Beck out.

Field Report From Owen

Today we started off at the town hall like usual at the town hall. On 22^nd of june (2016) at 9:25 AM the temperature was 61 degrees F. Mr. Lenny told us we would be focusing on bees today. Yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love bees.

Today we had an additional instructor named Shay. Shay was studying bees for a citizen’s science initiative. Specifically, would bees live in a bee box wrapped in burlap or one that was naked. She has six bee boxes in Gothic, three with burlap, three without. This morning on the way back from some bee boxes, we saw a bee in the psithyrus family. We think it was a bumble bee.

When went on our walk, I identified six flowers. A lupine (blue bonnet), a mountain parsley, an Alpine Avens, phlox, showy milk weed, and a geranium.

This week we studied bees with Shay. 

Collecting data.

Bee Boxes.

Bees

Bees, bees,

Lemon, apple too,

Bees, bees

“somewhere, over the rainbow…"

wierd

By Oliver 

Bees #2

Weird

Bees, bees,

Orange yellow black

Bees, bees,

“valkerie, valkera valkerie valkerahahaha”

By Oliver

Making Music

Rangers working on an original song.

Eeyore's Cabin

A Moose in Ben's ear

This is Ben

An examination of the plant life of RMBL.  Good work Ben.

Field notes and sketches

At Eeyore's cabin sketching.

Ben's field notes

June 15th Day One!

                 Senna                       Gracie       Ben         Beck(front)    Cormac

                                                                                     Owen (Back)

                     The first ever (RMBL Rangers) first meeting Gothic CO.  June 15th, 2016. 

Rumblings In Gothic

This blog will serve as a daily update for the goings on at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and the brand new program we call the RMBL Rangers.

RMBL Rangers (For Students Entering Grades 6-8)

New This Season!

Wednesdays, June 15 to August 17, 2016

9am-3:30pm (Meeting in Gothic) or 8:30am-4:00pm (Meeting at the CB 4-Way Bus Stop)

We’re looking for motivated and emerging scientists who will be entering grades 6 through 8 in fall of 2016 to serve as interns at RMBL.  As a RMBL Ranger, you’ll ask and test scientific questions while learning about experimental design concepts, data collection techniques, best practice principles in land management, plant and animal identification, as well as blogging and book-making.

All applicants will participate in individualized research projects, write daily blog entries, assist visitors, and by summer’s end (for those that come all summer), present their work in a polished manner to the public through an oral presentation as well as a handmade limited edition book.

This program is designed so that students can attend just one day of the summer, every week of the summer or a handful of Wednesdays.  We will individualize the experience for each student so that he/she will get the most out of the day(s)!

If you would like more detailed information about our new RMBL Ranger program, please contact the RMBL Ranger leader directly, Len Germinara at len@rmbl.org  Len recently moved to Almont, Colorado from Massachusets where he ran an award winning Junior Ranger program each summer for 7 years at the Nantucket Field Station in addition to handling much of the field station’s year round pre K-8th grade programs. Len is also a performance poet and a poetry venue host, and he has shepherded kids of all ages through the process of creating poetry, photography, art, and prose publications.