Connecting people with nature; Environmental education; Recreation
This special edition of Fish & Wildlife News provides a glimpse of what Service employees from coast to coast are already doing to reconnect children with nature. From the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, where...
A multidisciplinary education guide for grades 2-12 (with sections on "How to Adapt" for Preschool - 1st grade, home schools, youth groups, and nature centers)
Oral history interview with Jerry Lawhorn; Jim Branson; Richard "Dick" Hensel; Terry Smith; Ray Tremblay, Theron Smith; Bob Rickey; Jim King; Tom Wardleigh. John Sarvis was the interviewer. The following transcription taken from...
It takes lots of different jobs to run a national wildlife refuge! Chelsea Corcoran/Quadt demonstrates how to conduct a lesson plan where children explore the career of a wildlife biologist by participating in a hands-on bird mist netting...
Birds; Birds of prey; Birdwatching; Podcast; Eagle Cam;
Mark Madison talks with Jay Slack, Director, National Conservation Training Center and Steve Chase, Cheif, Division of Education Outreach, about the events that have occured with the NCTC eagles in 2011.
Environmental education; Environments (Natural); Children; Podcast; Public Lecture;
John Francis was in his twenties when a 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay jarred his comfortable life. Even as he joined the volunteers who scrubbed the beaches and fought to save birds and sea creatures poisoned by petroleum, he felt the need to...
