Earn Your "Where The Wild Things Are" Badge

It may have been a few years since you were a Scout. Or maybe while the rest of the kids were out learning to use compasses and doing good deeds, you were home playing XBox. Or maybe you're thinking, "What's XBox?"

Fret not: You, too, can get out, do neat stuff, and earn badges for it. (And bragging rights.) The Watershed Post is proud to present our first-ever Catskills badge: Where The Wild Things Are. It's a realio, trulio, embroidered badge that you can sew on a sash or your favorite pair of Carhartts, and we'll be rolling out other badges as we design them.

Here's what you've got to do to earn it: Send us three (3) pictures of wildlife, plants, insects, fungus, etc, taken somewhere in Greene, Ulster, Delaware, Sullivan, or Schoharie County. The rules:

1. The photo must be taken by you, and by submitting it you give us permission to publish it on our website.

2.There must be at least one photo from three of the following categories:

-Mammals

-Insects and other invertebrates (spiders, slugs, etc.)

-Fish

-Birds

-Reptiles

-Herbaceous plants

-Trees and shrubs

-Fungus

3. You must include detailed geographic information about where the photo was taken. (For instance: A tickmark on a Google map, latitude and longitude, or the nearest street address if there is one. We will be making a map of all the critters we get photos of, and we want to make sure they're placed right.)

4. You must identify the creature by both common and Latin name. If you have them, include field notes about how you got the photo, what the surroundings were like, or what the creature was doing.

Send us your proof of badgeworthiness at editor@watershedpost.com.