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![Halloween pennant dragonfly at Wampum Lake. Photo by Jim Phillips.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wampum-lake-halloween-pennant-jim-phillips-16-200x114.jpg)
Volunteer Newsletter: Volunteer Impact of our Community Science Partners
![Master Naturalists on a rainy November hike near Bemis Woods. Photo by Brigit Holt.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bemis-woods-master-naturalist-hike-brigit-holt-nov16-200x114.jpg)
Volunteer Newsletter: Master Naturalist Class of 2016
![a prescribed burn crew a Poplar Creek. Photo by Daniel Suarez.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/poplar-creek-prescribed-burn-crew-daniel-suarez-nov15-200x114.jpg)
Volunteer Newsletter: Burning with volunteers – a learning experience!
![Pin oak in fall. Photo by Jane Balaban.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pin-oak-jane-balaban-fall-200x114.jpg)
Volunteer Newsletter: Pin this!
![An Eastern Red Bat nestled in an oak leaf at Bunker Hill. Photo by Jane Balaban.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/eastern-red-nat-bunker-hill-jane-balaban-200x114.jpg)
Volunteer Newsletter: Batty for Bats
This Birder Combines Volunteerism with Birding
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Volunteer Newsletter: Volunteer Pooch Patrol
![a person writing ecological monitoring observations on a clipboard outside at Beaubien Woods as part of the Calumet Is My Back Yard Program.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/beaubien-woods-cimby-monitoring-fall11-200x114.jpg)
Volunteer Newsletter: Kids Say the Darndest Things About Nature
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