Saturday, November 14 – 08:00 AM – 05:00 PM
Elephant Butte Lake
Free Boating Safety Class
Fees: Free
Saturday, November 14
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Oliver Lee
Fall Colors Hike
While hiking the canyon bottom enjoy the scenic beauty and fall colors at Dog Canyon. Discover the diversity of plants and animals that are reliant on this oasis in the desert. Learn [...]

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Join us for a 2-day road trip to discover the geology and paleontology of the Gold Belt region on July 18 and 19 from 8am – 5:30 pm. Fee is $65 + entrance fees. Sponsored by Friends of Florissant. Teacher credit is available. Registration required. Call 719-748-3253.

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WASHINGTON, DC (March 24, 2008) – The National Park Foundation is proud to
announce the launch of the 2009 Junior Ranger Essay Contest, asking youth across the country to share their big ideas on how to protect and preserve America’s National Parks.
This year, the National Park Foundation is asking students aged 9 to 12 this question: [...]

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March 17, 2009 — Yosemite Institute, a campus of NatureBridge announced a unique opportunity today for 16-18 year old students to take part in a 2-week long adventure and learning program in Yosemite National Park. The two-week long inquiry-based Field Research Course lets kids earn college credit while learning how to create their own ecological [...]

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Minneapolis, Minn. – December 4, 2008 – The Säjai (R) Foundation and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) announced today that they are launching the Wise Kids(R) Outdoors program, an after-school and summer camp program that leads children through twenty supervised outdoor adventures to learn about animals, the weather, the earth and more. In [...]

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Joshua Tree National Park Superintendent Curt Sauer announced today that applications for the park’s 2009 Graduate Student Research Grant program are available on the park’s website at: http://www.nps.gov/jotr/naturescience/research.htm. Research proposals should focus on some aspect of either the natural or cultural resources of Joshua Tree National Park. The application deadline is November 21, 2008.
According to [...]

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Page, Ariz. – This year’s National Public Lands Day event, held on September 23rd, was deemed by all a great success. Sixty students and eight teachers and chaperones from Page (AZ) Middle School, along with seven volunteers from the local community, helped remove graffiti from the Coves area near Wahweap Marina.
Park Ranger Lisa Dittman coordinated [...]

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(Wyoming, Idaho, Montana) — The National Park Service and its educational partner, the Yellowstone Association Institute, are teaming up to offer two teacher workshops in the park this fall thanks to generous funding from the Yellowstone Park Foundation. What Lies Beneath, a four-day workshop focusing on geology as it relates to Yellowstone’s geologic past, present [...]

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SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico State Parks invites schools and teachers to apply for transportation grants to take school children to Outdoor Classrooms on public lands across the state.
The transportation grant program is part of the Kids ‘N Parks program, which is funded in part by a check-off option on the annual New Mexico [...]

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FIRE ROCK AND WATER at  CAMP SUCCESS at ELY, NEVADA
Lessons you can use and adapt july 20-25, 2008 for all grade levels:

Mineral Identification
Introduction to Caves
Understanding Mining Today
Oil & Gas in Nevada
Edible Geology
Fire Ecology
Understanding Water in the Great Basin

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