Thursday, September 10, 2009
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MILLBROOK - The Alabama Wildlife Federation is proud to announce a new partner in its mission to promote conservation education. The U.S. Forest Service is partnering with the Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF) in order to expand the agency's "More Kids in the Woods" educational outreach initiative to children in Autauga, Elmore and Montgomery Counties. Together, the Forest Service and AWF will increase the number of schools and students participating in the Alabama Nature Center's (ANC) Lanark Field Days. The collaboration will develop a forest management curriculum that complements AWF's current conservation education programs, brochures, interpretive materials, exhibits and presentations to be used during ANC programs. In addition, the partnership will engage active management and restoration concepts into the upcoming ANC Interpretive Center.
"We are excited about the new partnership with the Alabama Wildlife Federation," said Miera C. Nagy, U.S. Forest Service supervisor of Alabama's National Forests. "Youth are losing their connection with the outdoors; so the nature center programs are a great way to motivate young people to go back outside to learn and play," Nagy said.
"A Walk in the Forest," the first event sponsored by the Forest Service at the ANC, will take place September 11 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. More than 200 fifth and sixth graders from Garrett Elementary in Montgomery will visit the ANC to participate in activities such as fishing, a wetlands hike, a birding hike, tree identification, water quality sampling, and other fun conservation education activities. All programming will take place on the scenic ANC ponds and trails in Millbrook.
"The ANC is excited to give these students the chance to experience nature firsthand, an opportunity they would not have been able to enjoy without the support of the Forest Service," said Tim Gothard, AWF Executive Director.
The Alabama Nature Center, which includes five miles of nature trails and boardwalks that traverse a variety of forests, fields, streams, wetlands, and ponds, is just a few miles north of Montgomery and less than two miles from Interstate 65 at Lanark. Lanark is the AWF State Headquarters and the former estate of benefactors Isabel and Wiley Hill.
For more information about the Alabama Nature Center or the Alabama Wildlife Federation, call 334-285-4550 or visit www.alabamawildlife.org.
"We are excited about the new partnership with the Alabama Wildlife Federation," said Miera C. Nagy, U.S. Forest Service supervisor of Alabama's National Forests. "Youth are losing their connection with the outdoors; so the nature center programs are a great way to motivate young people to go back outside to learn and play," Nagy said.
"A Walk in the Forest," the first event sponsored by the Forest Service at the ANC, will take place September 11 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. More than 200 fifth and sixth graders from Garrett Elementary in Montgomery will visit the ANC to participate in activities such as fishing, a wetlands hike, a birding hike, tree identification, water quality sampling, and other fun conservation education activities. All programming will take place on the scenic ANC ponds and trails in Millbrook.
"The ANC is excited to give these students the chance to experience nature firsthand, an opportunity they would not have been able to enjoy without the support of the Forest Service," said Tim Gothard, AWF Executive Director.
The Alabama Nature Center, which includes five miles of nature trails and boardwalks that traverse a variety of forests, fields, streams, wetlands, and ponds, is just a few miles north of Montgomery and less than two miles from Interstate 65 at Lanark. Lanark is the AWF State Headquarters and the former estate of benefactors Isabel and Wiley Hill.
For more information about the Alabama Nature Center or the Alabama Wildlife Federation, call 334-285-4550 or visit www.alabamawildlife.org.
Contact:
Kimberly Moon (800) 822-9453 kmoon@alabamawildlife.org
Kimberly Moon (800) 822-9453 kmoon@alabamawildlife.org
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