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Mysterious Spider

Teri Rogoway — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:58:44 +0000

While hiking on the Mayfair Trail at Rancho Canada Del Oro Open Space Preserve, my docent Cait and I found this little guy running around. He was small and fat and kind of pale. At first I thought… baby tarantula? But we aren’t sure… Any spider experts out there?

Leopold Meets the Happy Hollow Zoo

Teri Rogoway — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:06:05 +0000

Title: Leopold Meets the Happy Hollow Zoo
Location: Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, San Jose, CA
Link out: Click here
Description: This educators workshop is teaming up with the Happy Hollow Park and Zoo to join forces to learn about Leopold’s Land ethic. Join us for a day in the zoo, learning these activities followed by a day in the Rancho Canada del Oro Open Space Preserve. Special Needs Welcome!

This is a ONE TIME DEAL event: You may bring 3 people for the price of ONE if you are willing to share the resources. (In this tough economic time, OSA is looking to help interested folks get trained in the Leopold Education Project. Grab two buddies, split the $35 charge and share your books and you can join us for this training. Getting the message out is the most important part!) Hurry, spaces are filling fast. This deal is restricted to 1 group per agency/organization, unless we have space left over.

Call Teri Rogoway at (408) 224-7476 to reserve your space now. (If you want your own books and can pay the $35, let me know and I will order them for you.)

Start Date: 2010-11-6
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2010-11-7
End Time: 15:00

LEP Educators Workshop Orangeburg SC

Tony Esposito — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:01:56 +0000

LEP Workshop at Albemarle Corp., Orangeburg Plant, Outdoor Learning Center
The date of this workshop is Thursday, October 21, 2010. Time: 10:00am-4:00pm.
It will be held at the Albemarle Corp., Orangeburg Plant located off of Hwy. 301/601 South, Orangeburg. The Outdoor Learning Center is in the “Hundred Acre Wood.” We will also have access to a Training Room in the plant. Albemarle Corp. is allowing us free use of their facility.
The cost of $25 covers materials, snacks and lunch.
This workshop will be an Educators workshop. There will be a future Facilitators Workshop. You must have taken the Educators workshop before attending the Facilitators Workshop.

A description of the LEP Project is below.
The Leopold Education Project (LEP) is an innovative, interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of the renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold. The Leopold Education Project teaches the public about humanity’s ties to the natural environment in the effort to conserve and protect the earth’s natural resources. It compliments existing EE curricula. Participants will receive the Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold and an 87-page curriculum guide.
Why do I feel that Leopold Education Project is a fit for conservation district employees? I have been an education coordinator for the Orangeburg Conservation District for over 10 years. I am trained in Project Learning Tree (PLT), Project WET, Project WILD, Aquatic WILD, WOW (Wonders of Wetlands) and Flying WILD. When I took the LEP course it fit all of these together. I wish I had had LEP training first. It gives the foundation on which to hang the other courses. It helps to open your eyes, ears and other senses to the environment that surrounds you.

Have you ever wondered how to learn to ID birds by their songs? Are there simple tips to ID plants in your backyard? How do animal tracks and scat fit into the ecology of the environment? How does the plants, animals, soil, water, and clouds all fit together in a never ending cycle? These are some of the questions this curriculum helps you answer.

LEP was developed by an association of eight Illinois Soil and Water Conservation Districts (Council of 16). They based it on the lessons of Gary Laib, a Wisconsin biology teacher. In 1991 it was revised by a committee of teachers, resource agency personnel, and curriculum specialists to make LEP what it is today.
Target audience: Conservation District Employees and other non-formal educators.
Contact: Diane Curlee, Education Coordinator
Orangeburg Conservation District
1550 Henley St., NE Room 103
Orangeburg, SC 29115
Phone: (803) 534-2409x.3
Diane.Curlee@sc.nacdnet.net

Lend a vote to help the Aldo Leopold Foundation!

Sara Holle — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:56:57 +0000

Vote for the Leopold Shack in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s contest and help the Aldo Leopold Foundation win $25,000! You can only vote once, but tell your friends.

Click here to vote

LEP Educators Workshop

Robert Hawk — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:17:17 +0000

Title: LEP Educators Workshop
Location: The Schiele Museum, Gastonia, NC
Link out: Click here
Description: The LEP is an innovative conservation ethics curriculum targeted for grades 5-12. This training is to learn how to use the LEP curriculum to use with your students and others in helping them develop their own personal “Land Ethic,” while reconnecting them with the natural world and it’s wonders.
Date: 2010-10-11

LEP Educators Workshop

Robert Hawk — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:07:50 +0000

Title: LEP Educators Workshop
Location: Waynesville, NC
Description: The LEP Educator’s Workshop provides educators to learn how to use the LEP curriculum with students, campers and others in order to increase student’s awareness of the land and hopefully develop a personal “Land Ethic from the “
Start Date: 2010-09-14
Start Time: 05:00 p.m.
End Date: 2010-09-15
End Time: 08:30 p.m.

NC-LEP Facilitators Workshop

Robert Hawk — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:11:32 +0000

Title: NC-LEP Facilitators Workshop
Location: Crossnore, NC; B.H. Corpening Forestry Training Facility
Description: A Leopold Education Project Facilitators Workshop is being offered in Crossnore, NC. Please come join a cadre of LEP Educators to become trained as an LEP Facilitators to learn how to facilitate an LEP Educator Workshops and encourage individuals to create and nurture their land ethic. The workshop qualifies for 1.5 CEUs and for NCEE criteria I, II or III. Facilitator is Robert Hawk, NC LEP Coordinator.
Start Date: 2010-11-19
Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
End Date: 2010-11-21
End Time: 12:00 p.m.

NC – LEP Facilitators Workshop, November 19-21, 2010

Robert Hawk — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:31:46 +0000

There will be an LEP Facilitators Workshop in Crossnore, North Carolina from November 19th-21st, 2010. Please contact NC-LEP Coordinator via email for more information and a registration form: “robert_hawk@ncsu.edu”

NC – LEP Facilitators Workshop

Robert Hawk — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:27:07 +0000

LEP Facilitators Workshop in Crossnore, North Carolina on November 19th-21st, 2010. Please contact Robert Hawk via email “robert_hawk@ncsu.edu” for more information and registration form.

youth at camp

Leslie Burger — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:39:52 +0000

Some video footage of kids having a great time outdoors at Mississippi State summer camps: http://msucares.com/wildfish/education/camp.html