Technology meets Mother Nature - QR signs around DeWitt, Michigan
Attention, People with Active Minds and Bodies! You are cordially invited to walk, run, bike, skate, or crawl OUTSIDE with your technology, in hand. We now have an easy, innovative, interactive way for our community to enjoy botany! Be on the lookout for QR signs attached to trees. With your tech device, point, scan, read, and soak up new information! It’s an excellent way to roam . . . Identifying Trees around our Community basswood/american linden black cherry maple trees: sugar maple oak trees: bur oak red oak white oak shagbark hickory ironwood sassafras bitternut hickory Other QR Signs around DeWitt: white ash bigtooth aspen red maple silver maple Many committed visionaries helped make these QR symbols possible! Behind-the-scene collaborations definitely foster DeWitt's cutting-edge, unique charm! Special thanks to: Mike Smalligan, DNR Forest Stewardship Coordinator John Switzer, Executive Director of Clinton Conservation District Katie Grzesiak, Coordinator of the Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network, DeWitt Public School Alumna Larry Arbanas and Phil Harner, founding members of Friends of the DeWitt Nature Center Rodney Taylor, DeWitt Township Manager, DeWitt Foundation Board Member Daniel Coss - DeWitt City Administrator Funding for these signs was graciously donated by the DeWitt Foundation, City of DeWitt, and the DeWitt Township. How Trees Talk to each other (18:19): https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other |