News Center – Environmental Education

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.

Fighting through an understory thick with invasive multiflora rose and the friendlier northern spicebush, ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.

Four to five months from now, if you are lucky, you may find yourself ... Read More

(With this entry, Rural Action’s Environmental Education team launches Field Notes, an occasional series that takes readers into local forests to learn about our natural ... Read More

THE PLAINS, OH – A local historian will lead cyclists on a 17.5- mile tour of historic coal towns during the Ride Through Time bike ... Read More

Homeschool students have been spending time in Florida – without leaving their homes in Glouster.

In response to the pandemic, Rural Action Americorps member Madison Donohue, ... Read More

ATHENS, OH — After successfully connecting students with businesses and organizations in Athens and Meigs counties, Rural Action’s Paid High School Internship Program has expanded ... Read More

Looking for fun ways to bring STEM into the classroom?

Rural Action’s Joe Brehm will present, “Identifying Ohio Mammal Tracks” during the Environmental Education Council of ... Read More

The Wayne National Forest is vast — almost a quarter-million acres spread across 12 counties and organized into three districts. It’s an incredible resource, but ... Read More

For a 19-year-old Glouster resident, Rural Action’s high school internship program has been life-changing.

“This job could set me on a whole new direction,” Dallas Taylor ... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t derail the Appalachian Green Teachers Conference, but it definitely changed our 2020 programming.

Instead of bringing everyone together for a few days ... Read More