Russell County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025
| 4022 - Natural Resources | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4022.3) | 144 |
Number of Youth (5-18) engaged in NR 4-H programming |
| 4022.5) | 0 |
Number of Volunteers (19+) engaged in NR 4-H programming |
Success Stories
4-H Shooting Sports
Author: Christina A. Martin
Major Program: Natural Resources
The Russell County 4-H Shooting Sports program provides young people with a safe environment to explore their passion for target shooting, a place where they feel they belong, and opportunities to form relationships with caring adult mentors. The program includes comprehensive firearms education, recreational pursuits, and healthy competition. Through this young people develop life skills like teamwork, self-confidence, personal discipline, responsibility, and decision-making. Russell County 4-H
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Monarch Habitat Restoration: Art with Purpose
Author: Christina A. Martin
Major Program: Natural Resources
As monarch butterflies grow/mature, they feed on milkweed. Over the past few decades, the milkweed plant has been removed from much of the habitat in our area. Russell Co. 4-H members worked on a project in September and October to help restore monarch habitat in places where milkweed could grow but not be planted on farmland. Over 200 youth in 4th grade learned about insect anatomy, insect diversity, and incomplete and complete metamorphosis. During the activity, they wer
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