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Growing Up WILD Exploring Nature with children 3 -7 helps educators and caregivers engage children in activities that encourage outdoor exploration.n The curriculum features 27 field-tested, hands-on, nature-based activities in a full color guide. Each lesson includes crafts, art projects, music, conservation activities and more. Workshop is free. To register or find out more, contact sheila.connerly@agfc.ar.gov

Gardening and greenhouse work at Ozark Folk Center State Park

Gardening & greenhouse work

The NCAMN Wildflower Meadow Team maintains the Gaston Wildflower Meadow at Bull Shoals-White River State Park from March through December. Team members work for 3 hours every other Thursday during the hot part of the summer. Wear gloves and sturdy garden shoes, dress comfortably and expect to get dirty. Volunteers will become familiar with native plants common in north central Arkansas and learn about their characteristics and requirements for growth.
Category: Volunteer - Natural Area Maintenance,
Sponsor: Bull Shoals-White River State Park
Registration is required.

Gardening and greenhouse work at Ozark Folk Center State Park

Gardening & greenhouse work

To celebrate World Environment Day, join CAMN for a work morning at Rose Creek Park. The plan is to remove concrete, bricks, and other debris along the edge of Rose Creek. AGFC Stream Team is providing a dumpster. The entire park will also be mowed. Bring your weed-eaters!! ? So bring gloves, tools, bug spray and plenty of water! ? Record time as "Litter Pick-Up" and sponsor as LR City Parks.

(geared for Middle, Jr. High and Sr. High educators)
Forestry jobs in Arkansas pay a 134% higher salary than
the statewide average, yet many of those positions go
unfilled. Educating youth in the field of forestry is vital
at filling these in-demand careers.
Green jobs represent one of the fastest growing and
changing segments of the global economy. At the same
time, today’s youth are seeking rewarding careers that
help us move toward more sustainable lifestyles and
greener economies. Some of the most exciting—and
perhaps greenest jobs—involve forests.
Join us for this PD event featuring Project Learning
Tree’s Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers. This unit
includes four hands-on, NGSS aligned, instructional
activities to help youth research forestry jobs, and
practice managing and monitoring forest resources.
The afternoon session will be conducted in the field
with foresters from Green Bay Packaging. We will learn
about a variety of forestry careers and see examples of
sustainable forestry practices used to maintain healthy
forests

The chapter meeting for June will be held via Zoom due to lack of meeting space availability. The speaker for continuing education hours is Sheila Connerly, AG&F Project Wild Coordinator

Grab you clippers and your snippers for garden day at Tyler Bend and Buffalo Point! Volunteers will meet at Tyler Bend Visitors Center at 9:00 a.m. to spruce up the gardens. To carpool or caravan meet at Flippin Walmart to leave one hour before work begins. We will leave Tyler Bend by noon and those who wish can continue to Buffalo Point Ranger Station for a brief clean up there. What to bring: Work gloves, your favorite weeding tools, leaf rakes, tubs for weeds and debris. Native plant swap: If you have native plants that have spread, pot 'em up and bring them to trade along with seeds and root cuttings of native shrubs. Lunch: Bring a sack lunch and we'll picnic in the park. I'll bring the cookies!

Reed will be hosting a Fourche Creek trash-boom cleanout
Bring your own water craft (canoe, kayak, jon boat).
Bring your own drinking water and snacks, if needed.
Bring your own litter grabbers and Stream Team mesh bags if you have them..
Large 45 gallon trash bags will be provided.

For you landlubbers, there will be plenty of litter to pick up along the shoreline, up on
top of the bank in the riparian if you don‘t want to get on the water. We can shuttle you
across to the north side to work that, too. Lots of blackberries, greenbrier, etc. Wear thick,
protective clothing and tall boots. Ticks and mosquitoes are out, and so are our favorite
legless reptiles; no alligators that I know of.

Bill Randel is giving a Tree ID/ Discovery Hike at Lake Ouachita State Park from 9-11 AM on the Caddo Trail.

The workday will begin at 7:30 and work until 9:30. Be sure to bring water, favorite gardening tools, bug spray and wear appropriate clothing. Remember we're into chigger and tick season. ENTER HOURS AS: ACTIVITY: NATURAL AREA MAINTENANCE/SPONSOR: AGFC: FRED BERRY-NCAMN

Gardening & greenhouse work

Gardening and greenhouse work at Ozark Folk Center State Park

Getting kids outside is essential these days and nature journaling is a great way to get and keep kids engaged. Nature journaling supports lessons in both literacy and science. Observation, writing, sketching, data collection, sequencing, and reflection are a few of the many useful skills students may use while journaling. This workshop will demonstrate the use of Project Learning Tree activities to improve and enhance nature journaling skills. This will be an interactive workshop conducted both indoors and outdoors and include activities, hands-on crafts, and lesson plans. Join us for this fun and educational day and learn how to implement nature journaling into your own classroom, camps, and educational programs. Please bring a sack lunch or Mather Lodge Restaurant will be open as well. Participants must stay for the full training in order to receive the curriculum guide. No partial credit will be given. Space is limited. Fee $15 - Participants will receive both the newly revised PLT Explore Your Environment K-8 Guide and the Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood Guide in addition to a copy of Keeping A Nature Journal by Clare Walker Leslie & Charles E. Roth. (an $85 value) Register and pay online at https://tinyurl.com/PLTjournaling

The NCAMN Wildflower Meadow Team maintains the Gaston Wildflower Meadow at Bull Shoals-White River State Park from March through December. Team members work for 3 hours every other Thursday during the hot part of the summer. Wear gloves and sturdy garden shoes, dress comfortably and expect to get dirty. Volunteers will become familiar with native plants common in north central Arkansas and learn about their characteristics and requirements for growth.
Category: Volunteer - Natural Area Maintenance,
Sponsor: Bull Shoals-White River State Park
Registration is required.

Bruce McMath, with the Arkansas Natural Sky Assn., will acquaint us with the Night Sky over Arkansas.

Project Learning Tree Science Curriculum for Grades 10-12 This workshop will be divided into two sessions. The morning session will highlight Focus on Forest. The afternoon session will highlight Southeastern Forests and Climate Change Part 1: This high school curriculum is designed to foster student understanding of — and appreciation for — the forested lands of North America. The lessons provide students with opportunities for hands-on forest study and address concepts in biology, civics, ecology, economics, forest management, and other content areas. Click here for more information about Project Learning Tree and this curriculum: https://www.plt.org/curriculum/focus-on-forests/ Part 2: Project Learning Tree and the University of Florida developed this award winning material to help educators in the Southeast teach about climate change impacts on forest ecosystems, the role of forests in sequestering carbon, and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to changing climatic conditions. While this resource was created with southeastern forests in mind, the lessons that comprise this module can be used with students across the United States. Teachers will receive Project Learning Tree curriculum with activities discussed in the workshop. FEE $40.00

Bill Randel is giving a Tree ID/ Discovery Hike at Lake Ouachita State Park from 9-11 AM on the Caddo Trail.

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Project Learning Tree and Project WILD are environmental education programs for anyone who teaches youngsters. They help develop students’ knowledge of the environment and encourage them to care for natural resources. Participants will receive “Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide,” which includes 50 activities correlated to NSS, ELA and common core mathematics, and the C3 social st card.tudies framework. Participants will also receive two curriculum guides with over 150 lessons. $10 MATERIALS FEE payable the day of the workshop via cash, check or credit card. To register: Email Rob Beadel, rbeadel@arkforests.org.

We are scheduling a Stream Team outing for Tuesday, June 22nd, subject to possible tropical weather.  It looks to be quite a bit cooler early next week so it should be ideal for getting out and collecting some critters.  We still want to practice social distancing and recommend bringing along a mask for anticipated close quarters when viewing around the critter trays, but we will not be limiting the size of the group.   

We plan to do chemical testing and biological counts at our adopted area of the middle fork of the Saline River at Middle Fork Barrens.  We will meet in the Tanners parking lot (25255 AR-5, Lonsdale, AR 72087) at 0830 to convoy and plan to be at the trail gate on Burk Road (34.639185, -92.842505) at 0900.

This workshop will feature two internationally recognized curricula - Project WILD and Project Learning Tree. Project WILD is an education curriculum rooted in nature that helps educators bring the outdoors to their students. Curriculum matching state and national teaching standards offer valuable education and lesson plans about the natural world. Two curriculum guides serve to help educators teach conservation: Project WILD is the terrestrial guide and Aquatic WILD is the aqua guide. Aquatic WILD encompasses lessons in Ecological Knowledge, Social and Political Knowledge, and Sustaining Fish and Wildlife. Participants will also receive training in PLT’s NEW Explore Your Environment: K-8 Curriculum, which offers educators a wide variety of engaging, hands-on activities, organized into grade bands: K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. Many activities also suggest variations for doing the activity with a different grade level or audience. Topics include trees and forests, wildlife, water, air, energy, waste, climate change, invasive species, community planning, and more. Activities correlated to state and national education frameworks. Lunch will be provided. Free. Participants must stay for the full training in order to receive the curriculum guides. Approved for 6 hours Continuing Education (sponsor - Central Arkansas Water). No partial credit will be given. Space is limited.

Let‘s come together and celebrate as our NiT‘s graduate during this unbelievable year. We will be catering this event with Smokin‘ in Style barbecue.We are asking everyone to sign up online so that we have a good head count to order food. Member‘s are asked to bring a dessert to share and your own plate and utensils. We will provide napkins, paper towels, and water. This event will occur at the Waterfall Pavilion at Entergy Park. Please wear your name badges. NiT‘s will receive their MN name badges at the "ceremony". We look forward to seeing you all there!