This would be an excellent program for civic groups.

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.

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

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.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.