Tour Region 9
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Collaboration Across the Border
Submitted by Amber Neilson, Sequoia Park Zoo Education Coordinator
This past year, Fisheries and Oceans Canada contributed resources to the Sequoia Park Zoo’s Everything Travels Downstream exhibit, which was provided by the California Coastal Commission’s Whale Tail grant program. See the full story and photos!
Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park
A visit to the Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park will bring you back to the largest privately owned adobe
building in Northern California in the 1830-40's. Visit Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park.
California National Historic Trail Interpretive Center Opening its Doors! - Elko, NV
Submitted by David Low - Southern Nevada Conservancy
March 9, 2010
The California National Historic Trail Interpretive Center (BLM) in Elko Nevada is gearing up to open its doors to the public for its first summer season at the end of May, 2010. Although the exhibits in the Trail Center are not yet complete, staff will offer tours of the facility and walking trails, and the trail center will host a series of contra-dances and talks about California Trail history throughout the summer. The seventh annual "Trail Days" event at the end of May will kick off the summer with two days of living history interpretation, an emigrant wagon camp, historical presentations, chautauqua, and activities for all ages. For more information about Trail Days visit www.elkotraildays.com, and to receive the California Trail Center newsletter contact David Low.
The California Trail Center is in the process of awarding an Americorps internship through the Great Basin Institute. Interns with the California Trail Center have the opportunity to take part in planning and designing a wholly new interpretive center, as well as learning front-line interpretive skills, volunteer coordination and community-liaison skills. For more information visit Great Basin Institute.
Collaboration Across the Border
Submitted by Amber Neilson - Education Coordinator, Sequoia Park Zoo
March 2010
This past year, Fisheries and Oceans Canada contributed resources to the Sequoia Park Zoo’s Everything Travels Downstream exhibit, which was provided by the California Coastal Commission’s Whale Tail grant program. The Everything Travels Downstream exhibit is comprised of three interpretive stations. The first exhibit, Salmonids in Our Streams, helps the visitor learn about the different species of trout and salmon that live in and depend on Humboldt Bay’s freshwater and oceanic systems. As most readers are all aware, all four of the fish species featured in this exhibit begin their lives in freshwater, travel to saltwater to spend their adulthood, returning to their freshwater stream of birth to lay their eggs. It is a heroic journey for these fish that depend on our local community to keep our freshwater streams healthy and pollution free. At this exhibit, visitors can identify the four species by looking at the clues on the sign and matching them to the giant salmon panels “floating” above. Answers are found underneath the flapping door.
Sharing Nature with High School Students - Nevada City, CA
Submitted by Greg Traymar - USA Director, Sharing Nature
February 20, 2010
This year I’ve been teaching a class at Ananda’s Living Wisdom Highshool entitled, “Sharing Nature Leadership Training.” The Sharing Nature with Children book series was written by Ananda Village member Joseph (Bharat) Cornell and is used in virtually every part of the world. Joseph wrote the Sharing Nature activities to give inspiring nature experiences and to bring participants (both young and old) to a place of stillness within themselves. For as Henry David Thoreau said, “one cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.”
The most challenging and ultimately most rewarding part of working with these students is learning how to work with their energy and enthusiasm, or lack thereof. No matter how well prepared I am going into a class, I almost always have to tweak or sometimes even completely let go of my personal goals and work with their level of energy at the moment...view entire article...