Join us Sunday, Nov. 10th at 4pm for Warren Miller's 75 ski film brought to you by the Mt. Crescent Ski Patrol and Alamo Drafthouse LaVista. Ticket info and details to come. Keep an eye on our page for updates!

WARREN MILLER FILM TOUR
We're going big for 75 years! Featuring 10 all-new, original segments and a stacked lineup of athletes like snowboarders Shaun White, Zeb Powell, Toby Miller, Danny Davis, and 15-year-old phenom LJ Henriquez, plus skiers Max Hitzig, Lexi duPont, Caite Zeliff, Aaron Blunck, and many more. The film will take fans to powder stashes and chutes worldwide, featuring special collaborations with Selema Masekela, the Real SkiFi, Sherpas Cinema, the Technically Doing It crew, and Framework.

Tickets for our National Tour events will go on sale for the general public on Sept. 12, 2024 at 10am MST. Outside+ Members will have a pre-sale for 25% off starting on Sept. 5th at 10am MST. Members will receive a custom promo code in behind the login paywall that they can utilize on the National Tour (only) ticketing sites.
https://warrenmiller.com/.../alamo-drafthouse-cinema-omaha

SAVE THE DATE!
The 2024 BFF Ball and Art Auction
Friday November 8th
6:00 - 10:00PM
Mercer Masonic Lodge & BFF Gallery

Stay tuned for further details including theme and entertainment lineup!

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CALL FOR ARTISTS!

Now accepting artwork submissions to the Art Auction portion of the 2024 BFF Ball!
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Selected artists receive a FREE 1-year Friends of BFF membership + FREE entry to the Ball.

Submit your work: https://forms.gle/VEvMiUyXSWBweEUe8

Join Conservation Nebraska for our new monthly Environmental Youth Focus Group! The purpose of this group is to engage middle and high school youth in the Omaha Metro Area in environmentally-focused projects to improve our schools, neighborhoods, and city while connecting with other young people of similar interests.

For the October meeting, we will continue planning our Fall project and more. Stay tuned for more details!

Let us know you're coming:
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Join our park naturalists at Platte River State Park on Fridays in October from 4-6 p.m. for beginner astronomy activities!

Make a constellation, use a star chart to identify seasonal stars, examine a moon globe and compare it to the moon you see in the sky and more. Use what you learn late at night as the stars become visible.

Meet at the RV Campground Shelter. A valid Nebraska state park vehicle permit is required for entry.

Both in person and on-line:
First Star Recycling has been processing the City of Omaha’s recyclables since 2006. In Nov., 2020, the City of Omaha issued all households large carts, with lids, for homeowners to collect their recycling, with the anticipation that this would encourage people to recycle even more of their household waste.

Patrick Leahy, CEO of First Star Recycling, will be giving us an update on recycling in Omaha. We wanted to know how Omaha’s collection rates have changed over the past four years, since the addition of the yard waste carts. We’d like to hear what recycling markets are like today, and how they have changed over time. And we also want to learn about some of the changes First Star has made in their processing of materials, including accepting the Hefty Energy Bags to be processed into pellets for plastic lumber.

Please join us for a very informative presentation, either in person or on Zoom, to learn more about the state of recycling in Omaha today. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link

Join us for an evening of conversation and connection at our annual Plants & Pints event on Tuesday, October 22, from 7-9 p.m., at Glacial Till Cider House & Tasting Room (1419 Silver Street, Ashland).

We'll offer complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar, and this year we are excited to feature former NSA Executive Director and current Director of Conservation at Lauritzen Gardens Jim Locklear as the keynote speaker. Jim will talk about his recently released book, In the Country of the Kaw: A Personal Natural History of the Great Plains. We'll also present a brief overview of the latest NSA projects and happenings.

Tickets to Plants & Pints are $25 for NSA members and $30 for non-members. All ticket purchases support NSA's tree planting, garden making and educational outreach work and help make our mission to Plant Nebraska possible -- thank you!

We are offering the option to purchase a copy of In the Country of the Kaw at the discounted price of $25 (retail price is $34.99) with your event ticket purchase; we'll have your copy ready for you to have signed by Jim at Plants & Pints. The book purchase option is only available until September 29; a very limited supply of books will be available for purchase at the event.

We look forward to seeing you at Plants & Pints!

Our CPSTs at Nurture Omaha have teamed up with Children's Nebraska Car Seat Safety Team to be able to recycle MORE seats!

This event will be FREE FOR EVERYONE! And you'll receive educational info and little token of appreciation as a thank you for recycling.

If you'd like to make a donation straight to Safe Kids Douglas County for ensuring car seat safety is accessible to everyone, please follow this link (“Designation” must be “Injury Prevention” to go to the car seat program): https://www.childrensomaha.org/.../give-to-the-childrens.../

Car seats are encouraged to be clean. They don't have to be sparkling, but no gunk, animal feces, human feces, vomit, etc. We do not have the ability to clean car seats, and our recycling center cannot clean them either.

Recycling events are held every 3-4 months. Stay tuned to this page for future recycling events!

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**NURTURE OMAHA DOES NOT ACCEPT CAR SEATS IN BETWEEN EVENTS OR BEFORE OR AFTER THE EVENT TIME. We don't have any space to store the seats, and leaving seats outside of our office increases risk of it being stolen and used by someone else when it may be unsafe for them to do so. Thank you for helping us keep the community safe!

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What do people do with those thousands of car seats once the child grows out of it, it expires, or it is in a crash? Well, many people just throw them away! There used to be a place to recycle in Omaha, but they no longer accept car seats. Target does a trade-in event once or twice a year (awesome choice to get a coupon!), and Babies R Us is no longer around to have trade-in events either! Omaha was left with NO resource to recycle car seats until NOW!

Nurture Omaha and Children's Nebraska are dedicated to staying green and keeping the environment healthy by being as paperless as possible, recycling breast pumps and car seats, and promoting human milk feeding which is one of the greenest things you can do for the environment and the human race.

Find the details on our Facebook event page and make sure you click "going" to stay updated on details! If you have a question please message Nurture Omaha's Facebook page!

These events will be held only on SPECIFIC DATES. Please watch the calendar and event closely as times may change due to Covid-19 or weather events.

Did you know we have a Car Seat Safety Education Class called Nurture & Protect? If you think you or someone you know would benefit from taking our class please direct them to our website or Facebook page!

Motus wildlife tracking system in Nebraska.
October 21st, 2024 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (CST)
I will describe the world wide Motus system role in Nebraska and how to use the publicly available information. What the future plan for expansion of Motus in Nebraska and how Master Naturalists can get involved.

Presenter: Glenn Pollock, Citizen Scientist

Presenter Bio:
I have installed six Motus receiving stations in Iowa and Nebraska. I first started working to save the natural world in 1970. My profession was in Biomedical Equipment technician where I did human telemetry in hospitals, a skill I have applied to bird tracking telemetry.
I have been active with restoration and restoring lands in Iowa and Nebraska since 1972. I specialized in tall grass prairie and some wetland work. I have recorded over 125 Prairie Pioneer Cemeteries through the Midwest and stewardship for four virgin prairie in Iowa and Nebraska.

This webinar is part of the Master Naturalist Mondays webinar series. Nebraska Master Naturalist is a statewide volunteer conservation program. Our program recruits, trains, manages, and provides resources for our volunteer naturalist members. We use four strategies to meet Nebraska’s conservation needs, Habit Stewardship, Community Science, Environmental Education & Interpretation, and Outdoor Recreation & Skills.

This free webinar series will host a variety of presenters and subject matter within these four conservation strategies. Master Naturalist Mondays is a space to connect us to our conservation motivations and inspirations, and our Naturalist community across the state of Nebraska.

All webinars will be recorded and found HERE.
For further details visit our website, HERE.
For questions regarding this virtual series contact Jamie Bachmann, jamie.bachmann@nebraska.gov.

Join us for a clean-up of Elmwood Park in Omaha! We will meet by the Pavilion with all the supplies you'll need and will begin our clean-up at 10:00am.

Please come prepared with good shoes, comfortable clothing, and a reusable water bottle if you have one! Water and snacks will also be provided.

Join BBC members as they ride down to Mineola for lunch (a 20 mile ride round trip) (some may continue after lunch to Silver City for a 28 mile round trip or Malvern for a 45 mile round trip) from Council Bluffs and enjoy the fall colors along the Wabash Trace Trail.
Some of us will also stop at Tobey Jack's in Mineola for refreshments on the way back.

Membership in the BBC is NOT required. No Fees for the club. $2 trail use fee payable at the trailhead.

No Drop Ride.

Avg Speed 10-15 mph.

Bike with tires 30 mm or wider recommended. Surface is packed limestone