ECO-MEET Rules and Reference Materials

Attention teachers and students!

The information below is provided as background material for the ECO-MEETs. Download these files in order to prepare for the competition.

Rules & Regs Checklists Background Materials
State Event Materials

For 2008, please note these important changes:

The insect list has been divided in half to reduce the scope of material being tested to a more manageable size. The new list is below. The list of other invertebrates (crustaceans, arachnids, mussels, etc.) is unchanged.
The bird list has been drastically pared down and only includes those species typically associated with the Habitat being tested for each year. The new list is below.
New lists for herps and mammals have also been prepared containing only those species of interest within the tallgrass prairie.
The rules for the Interpretive Event have been modified to clarify how species must be portrayed in the presentation. The new guidelines are below.

	The teacher/coach materials for the state event will be available in June 2008.
	The maximum number of teams allowed to attend State is set at 28. Therefore, in any year where more than nine regional events are held, only the first and second place teams are guaranteed a slot at State. If more than nine regional events are held, the third place teams from each will be ranked by total score and admitted to State based on available space.

To see our promotional video, with scenes from previous ECO-MEETS and comments from teachers and students,
contact your regional coordinator!

TEST CYCLE FOR THE KANSAS ECOMEET

Habitat Test

Focus Test

	2008 & 2009: Tallgrass Prairie
	2010 & 2011: Woodlands
	2012 & 2013: Shortgrass Prairie
	2014 & 2015: Wetlands/Aquatic

	2008: Invertebrates
	2009 & 2010: Reptiles & Amphibians
	2011 & 2012: Birds
	2013 & 2014: Mammals
	2015 & 2016: Invertebrates

RULES AND REGULATIONS:

To download these files; On a Windows system, RIGHT-click on the links and choose "Save Target As" to save them to your hard drive, then open them from there. On a Mac, use Command-Click. The rules, regulations and background materials are in Acrobat Reader format. If you don't have the software to use these files already, you can get it for free from Adobe.

Table Test Guidelines (13K) General Rules and Regulations (110K)

Scavenger Hunt Guidelines (61K) Interpretive Event Guidelines (41K)

Scholarship Claim Form for STATE EVENT ONLY (10K)
(For regional scholarships, contact the regional coordinator.)

CHECKLISTS

The following lists are for 2008:

Insect List (93K) Bird List - (31K)

Mammals List (98K) Amphibians & Reptiles List (62K)

These lists are unchanged from previous years.

SINC Species List (65K) Threatened & Endangered Species List (55K)
Other invertebrates List (82K) Fishes List (83K)
Woody Plants List (82K) Grasses & Forbs List (74K)

BACKGROUND MATERIALS

Reference list of books (9K)
Crayfish in Kansas (210K) Freshwater Mussels in Kansas (776K)
You can download the K-State booklet "Range Grasses of Kansas" by clicking here. (1,280K)

Click here to browse an excellent web site for pictures and information on Kansas wildflowers and grasses.
It is done by Mike Haddock of Kansas State University.

Click here to see an online version of the out-of-print book "Mammals of Kansas".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Common Kansas Mammals".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Raptors".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Snakes".

Click here for an online version of the GPNC "Pocket Guide to Kansas Threatened & Endangered Species".

STATE EVENT MATERIALS

Packet materials for 2008 will be available here soon.

Questions or comments about the Kansas ECO-MEET website may be directed to: Jim Mason