1124 - Youth Forestry and Natural Resource Education | |||
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1124.1) | 0 |
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1124.2) | 552 |
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1124.3) | 0 |
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1124.1) | 0 |
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1124.4) | 0 |
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) | 19 |
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Author: Stacy White
Major Program: Youth Forestry and Natural Resource Education
In his 1893 essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously wrote: “Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file—the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer—and the frontier has passed by.” Wildlife, especially furbearers, have played a crucial role in the opening o