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Rural Action collaborates with local students on chimney swift project
Jeffrey Baker, a science teacher for the Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center’s ALPHA School Program, said the project began about six years ago after ... Read More
Rural Action and Solid Ground School come together to teach lessons in phenology
By Amy Nicolai, Rural Action Environmental Education AmeriCorps Member
During the 2021–’22 and 2022–’23 school years, Solid Ground School and Rural Action’s Environmental Education ... Read More
Field Notes: On Water
Written by Joe Brehm, Chief Program Officer
For many years, Nate Schlater’s email was water@mondaycreek.org, which always struck me as significant. Something akin to ... Read More
Field Notes: February Joy
By Joe Brehm, Chief Program Officer
When I asked participants at a recent animal tracking workshop hosted by Appalachian Understories what they really wanted to ... Read More
Volunteering, NestWatch, and Thoughts of Spring
By Dan Vorisek, Environmental Education Director
On a day that brought the first wind and snow of the season to Athens, a group of Rural Action ... Read More
EE Takes it to the Edge
By Amy Nicolai, AmeriCorps AORC Member
The Rural Action Environmental Education team (plus Trevor from Camp Oty’Okwa) road-tripped to the Edge of Appalachia’s Eulett Center for ... Read More
Exploring the heritage of our region
Written by Amy Nicolai, AmeriCorps Member
On the chilly (but very sunny) morning of Nov. 22, Rural Action’s Environmental Education team visited two local spots to ... Read More
Appalachian Educators Explore New Ways to Connect Nature to the Classroom
The pristine autumn fall colors and Burr Oak Lake served as the backdrop for the Appalachian Green Teachers Conference, held in late October each year ... Read More
Four Thousand Species Identified in Local Bioblitz
Imagine a summer morning: a cool breeze, warm sunlight on your skin. You are walking through the forest, in silent awe at the massiveness of ... Read More
Creating the Next Generation of Appalachian Leaders
“Wow! That’s a great idea.”
It’s a phrase Rural Action Environmental Education Director Joe Brehm utters often. In this instance, he was responding to a co-worker’s ... Read More
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