In honor of Earth Day, this week I had the opportunity to take out 70 students and faculty from Menaul High School in Albuquerque, NM, for a guided hike and … Read more
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Stories from the Eco-Green Schoolyard – A Medium for Healing, Student Learning and Managing Climate Change
NWF Eco-Green is in its eighth year of supporting schools across Southeast Michigan and beyond that are making real change on their campuses to mitigate climate change through action-based Eco-Schools … Read more
A Blueprint for Student Success: Martin Luther King Day 2023
Remember last year we had a freak snowstorm that reduced our Martin Luther King Day volunteers down to three people, including myself, but we still managed to put up bat … Read more
Next Generation’s Pronghorn Conservation
A hot July weekend in 2021 set me on one of my greatest undertakings as a conservationist and teacher. That summer, I volunteered through NWF’s Artemis to work on a … Read more
Houston Youth Digging in to Protect their Communities from Flooding
What does the health of my watershed have to do with resilience to climate change? The National Wildlife Federation’s Student Climate Resilience Ambassadors (SCRA) are Houston high school students who … Read more
FLATHEAD LAKE: THE STORY OF A FISH, A SHRIMP, AND A BAD CASE OF HUBRIS
It’s the mid-1900s in northwestern Montana. McDonald Creek runs bright red with kokanee salmon swimming upstream to spawning grounds. They carry the future of their population on their red backs … Read more
QUIZ: Seven Red Birds for the Holidays
Red is a color associated with Christmas, Yule, and the winter holiday season in general. Here in North America, we don’t have too many wildlife species that are red. There … Read more
Hispanic Heritage Month Employee Spotlights: Marisa Sandoval
This Hispanic Heritage Month, members of the Latinx, Hispanic, and Multicultural Employee Resource Group (ERG) at the Wildlife Federation are coming together to share our stories — in our own … Read more
