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• Cascadia and Lame Deer Middle School

  May 12, 2008 in Educational Programs

  By Elizabeth Terp, Volunteer Thirty students from Cascadia Montessori Middle School are here for a residential week exploring Patterns in Nature and Knowing Your World as a Researcher. Their principal, David Drakos, explained that the school plans a week of residential education for every student each year to explore communities unlike the Pacific Northwest.

• Outreach on the Wind River Reservation

  May 12, 2008 in Educational Programs

  By Robin Brooks, Graduate Faculty The past two weeks the spring outreach team has been teaching on the Wind River Reservation. The five graduate students spent the first week teaching at the Arapaho Elementary School near Riverton, Wyoming.

• Mountain Lions- Where the Buffalo Roam: Episode 26

  May 8, 2008 in Podcast: Where the Buffalo Roam

  Title: Mountain Lions Show Description: To some people mountain lions represent a beautiful symbol of the wilderness, while to others …

• Advanced Elements of Field Ecology

  May 2, 2008 in Nature, Graduate Program

  By Josh Kleyman, Graduate Faculty As spring continues to encroach on the valley, a group of 6 graduate students are fully immersed in the natural history of the area. Advanced Elements of Field Ecology began with three early mornings as Dr. Dale Gentry and Mike Windsor took the graduate students birding.

• Snake River Montessori 4th - 6th Grade, Idaho Falls

  April 30, 2008 in Graduate Program, Educational Programs

  By Elizabeth Terp, Volunteer Carolyn Neblett, Montessori teacher, is here with 19 students. Because her class spans 3 grade levels, this is the third year some of her students have come for a residential week. Montessori students take a weeklong trip during the school year to broaden their understanding of the land and community of life we all share.