Mar
12
From the Spring 2010 Edition of Strides available for download at http://www.lep.org/strides/
Photo U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
“The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.” – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
By Celeste Prussia, Missouri LEP Coordinator
Finally. I’ve been listening for years. I even shot one 20 years ago from the daylight sky of an eastern Connecticut woodland when I knew very little about the “Timber Doodle” tumble. My self-imposed, lifetime bag limit for that species ended with that bird.
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Dec
15
State Coordinators recently met outside Springfield Missouri to learn about the new curriculum for Facilitators and Educators. Representatives from 14 states met at the Bull Shoals Field Station Kirbyville, Missouri.
The house located on the field station site is a renovated stone home that is off the grid. The electric power comes from Solar Panels and a propane backup is available when needed.
The facility is used to do research projects ranging from water quality to bat population density. The event started on Friday afternoon with a round of introductions.
After dinner, Janine Kohn, National Education Specialist and Cheryl Riley, Vice President of Education, filled us in on upcoming projects and ideas being discussed at the National Headquarters.
The evening ended with everyone gathered around the campfire, which was masterfully created by Marc Hirrel. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dec
1
Celeste Prussia - Missouri State Coordinator
Celeste Prussia is an outdoor girl born, raised, and schooled in New England where she maintained close contact with the woods, fields, wetlands, and hills of that region. She graduated magna cum laude with a BS in environmental biology at Eastern Connecticut State University and achieved her MS in botany from the University of Rhode Island by studying the ecology and chemistry of lichens. Celeste directed the forest education program of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and served as vice president and president of the Connecticut Outdoor and Environmental Education Association. She spent the next ten years directing the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center for the Missouri Botanical Garden during which time she helped establish the Missouri Environmental Education Association and served as its first full-term president. Celeste became an LEP facilitator in 1997 and has helped deliver facilitator training in other states. In 2003 she joined Missouri State University to manage the Bull Shoals Field Station and now lives happily ever after with her husband, labs, and horses at Possum Ranch in southwestern Missouri. Read the rest of this entry »
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