NatureKIT planning thread

The NatureKIT is open for volunteer hosts! In my original proposal, I suggested that it could be organized around themes of regions like forest, desert, prairie, tundra, gardens, etc., or around creatures like birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, microorganisms, etc., or other themes like endangered species, in the backyard or garden, in the house, in the city, on the farm, and so on, but these were just ideas to get us started. If you’d like to host a month, let me know your month and topic, and I’ll keep track of them here:

January: Sheep and Shepherding (Tess_W)
February: Forests, Farms & Grasslands (SilverWolf28)
March: Landscape (Jackie_K)
April: Flying Creatures (susanna.fraser)
May: Plants, Fungi, Etc. (JayneCM)
June: Oceans and Rivers (Charon07)
July: Inner Lives of Animals (GraceCollection)
August: Weather and Climate (LadyoftheLodge)
September: Urban Nature (Jackie_K)
October: Endangered Species (LibraryCin)
November: The Effects of Nature on Human Beings (clue)
December: Wild Card (LadyoftheLodge)

The 2025 NatureKIT wiki page is here: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2025_NatureKIT

I am really excited about this one! Give me a day or two to figure out what topic I'd like and I'll host a month.

I will sign up for January with Sheep and Shepherding, please and thank you!

>3 Tess_W: What fun! I have a perfect book in my TBR already!

I will take Flying Creatures in April--birds, bats, insects, and pterosaurs all welcome!

I'd like July, for Inner Lives of Animals!

I really like books about how animals think, perceive the world around them, and interact socially with other members of their species or with other species of animals (or humans).

>5 susanna.fraser: >6 GraceCollection: I’ve got you down. I love all the topics so far!

I will take December for a "Wild Card" or wrap up for the year. (Pun intended!)

Thanks for taking this on for us. I think it will be different.

>8 LadyoftheLodge: Added - another fun topic! I’m looking forward to this KIT too.

I'd like February please. I'll figure out a topic in the next couple of days.

I think I'd like to host an Endangered Species month. Can you put me into October? Thanks!

>10 SilverWolf28: >11 LibraryCin: I’ve added you both. I’m glad someone took on the endangered species!

There are a lot of animals (which I do love).

But I'm also hoping someone will be willing to do conservation or climate change or something like that, as well. Just throwing that out there if someone else is interested in something like that, too.

I would love to host another, but I've got quite a few hosting months already planned for other CATs and KITs, too!

I would like to host a month. Based on all types of plants, fungi, etc.

I'll host a month on landscape. Happy to take March.

Also happy to do a month on urban nature, but happy for someone else to do that if you have enough willing hosts.

>14 JayneCM: Wonderful! May, June, August, September, and November are still open. Which month would you like?

>15 Jackie_K: I will happily put you down for urban nature too, since we still have so many months available. Which month would you like?

I can also help out with another month if you need me. Topic would be weather and climate.

>16 Charon07: ok, put me down for September as well, thanks!

>17 LadyoftheLodge: Yes, please! Which month would you like?

>18 Jackie_K: Added, thanks!

If anyone else would like a second month, feel free!

Great, I will take August for weather and climate.

>20 LadyoftheLodge: Added! I’m glad to see this topic too.

>21 Charon07: I teach Geology (and Astronomy), so that is a special interest of mine.

I'll take May please.

>23 JayneCM: Done! I’m glad to see the plants getting a little love!

I’m putting myself down for June with the theme of Oceans and Rivers.

Happy to see us expanding beyond animals. :-)

Wow, just one more month to go!

Forests? Farms? Grasslands? A combination of them? What do you guys think I should do?

I do like forest, but I think grassland could be fun as well!

>28 SilverWolf28: I live surrounded by forest so that's the one that comes to my mind too.

>28 SilverWolf28: You could combine them so as to give the readers maximum flexibility.

>28 SilverWolf28: I like the idea of combining them too. My Nature category is "Nature, landscape, environment, place", to incorporate as much as possible. You could do something similar: "Forests, farms, grasslands".

I'll do Forests, Farms & Grasslands. (Thanks>32 Jackie_K:)

>33 SilverWolf28: Excellent! I’ve updated the list.

We have just one month unclaimed. If anyone would be willing to host November, just let me know!

I set up the 2025 NatureKIT wiki page here: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2025_NatureKIT

I’ll update November when we get our last host and topic.

I could take November if we still need a host. I was thinking of people who work with nature - botanist, biologist, ecologist, ornithologist, herpetologist, etc. - or volunteers working to protect wildlife.

>36 JayneCM: Over in the main planning thread, clue said she could take November (for this KIT, I think). If she meant a different KIT, I’ll take you up on your offer.

>37 Charon07: No worries - thanks

>38 JayneCM: Jane/Charon: If Jane would like to have my January slot, I'll gladly cede it to her! I'm hosting elsewhere!

>37 Charon07: For November's topic I have chosen The Effects of Nature on Human beings.

>40 clue: Intriguing topic! I’ve added it for November, and with that we’re ready to go!

>1 Charon07: Hi, I just noticed that my March title has expanded (the title you've given it, Nature, Landscape, Environment, Place, is the title of my own personal Nature category). My intention was for March to be specifically on Landscape.

>42 Jackie_K: Corrected here and in the Wiki.