Youth Engagement With The Outdoors – Learning About Wildlife

Encouraging everyone to learn about and engage with the outdoors is part of the mission of PLAN Jeffco, and if we can capture the imagination of a youngster, get them excited about the outdoors and the critters that live in the wild, we figure we’ll have wilderness and open spaces advocates for a lifetime.

Rachel Martin was helping her class of youngsters understand and appreciate wildlife when they ran across our website and the wildlife articles we’ve posted (http://www.planjeffco.org/experience-open-space_articles.html).

One of her students, named John, was so excited by the find that he went home and did more web searches on his own. He found the website for the International Wolf Center* in Ely, Minnesota and a great wolf-cam page that he shared with Ms. Martin.

We at PLAN Jeffco were very pleased to hear that young John and his classmates had been studying wildlife and open spaces, and when the kids asked if we could add the link to the wolf-cam to our website, we were thrilled. So here it is: “Using Video Surveillance to Advance the Survival of Wolf Populations – A Case Study”

Thank you, Ms. Martin, for helping the next generation know, understand and love nature.

 * The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future. http://www.wolf.org/