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It Starts With Us
| 1124 - Youth Forestry and Natural Resource Education | |||
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| 1124.1) | 0 |
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| 1124.2) | 2434 |
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| 1124.3) | 2000 |
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| 1124.1) | 0 |
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| 1124.4) | 8 |
Number of youth who have shared information about their community’s forests/natural resources (ex. citizen science – Adopt A Tree/Feeder Watch) |
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| 1124.5) | 2000 |
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Author: Lacey Kessell
Major Program: Youth Forestry and Natural Resource Education
“For a new generation, nature is more abstraction than reality." (Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder"This Fall, Boone County Extension partnered with Boone County schools to provide an unforgettable, hands-on experience to 1,102 Boone County students, teachers, and chaperones. These individuals were able to learn about their environment through guided, exploratory programs such as night hikes, pond ecosystems, KY wildlife
Author: Lacey Kessell
Major Program: Youth Forestry and Natural Resource Education
Environmental education has been shown to improve a wide-range of learning capabilities as well as social, mental and emotional heath in youth, as well as adults. Increased environmental education leads to a better understanding of the world around us and encourages environmental friendly behaviors that can result in a better environment for us and generations to come. According to recent studies, in the last 50 years, bird populations have declined by nearly 3 billion birds across N
