It also helps people learn to appreciate the animals more if they're involved in something like this.

You can fill them out interactively or print them out and mail them. We wanted to make it as easy as possible for volunteers to log their data.

This would be an excellent program for civic groups.

Once they're done documenting the sighting, they turn the form over to us, and we keep a database.

We did the first big training session last fall.

When we first opened, people kept asking us if we did summer camps. That's how we got started. Then we added the camps during winter and spring breaks.