February 6 2008

The Gerald C. Corcoran Education Grant offers up to $1000 for environmental education projects to educate the public about native fishes, including producing and distributing educational materials, conducting stream surveys with public education as a primary goal, public lectures, nature center displays, and teacher training workshops.

The "Save Our History" grant program from the History Channel gives grants to local organizations that partner with schools or youth groups in historic preservation projects.

The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History has launched a new online journal, Lessons in Conservation, designed to provide educators and students with the most up-to-date resources and thinking in biodiversity conservation. The journal will be the official publication of the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, a collaborative project of the American Museum of Natural History and a group of institutions and individuals around the world that seeks to develop capacity aimed at sustaining Earth's biological and cultural diversity.

Treasures in the Sea is a new resource book that provides teachers with scientific information and engaging, hands-on activities that encourage students to discover, cherish, and protect the sea and all of its treasures.

Recreation Research Update January 2008 No. 63 is available from the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station Wildland Recreation and Urban Cultures.

To receive a free copy of Discover a Watershed: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Educators Guide (educator pays shipping), contact Audrey.powell@projectwet.org.

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

The Southern Nevada Health District is launching the Get Healthy Clark County Challenge. This 12-week program will e-mail you each week with a new ‘health challenge’ including lots of tips, resources, mid-week reminders and motivation to help you succeed.  Weekly prize drawings will be held for people that are participating regularly.

The Conservation District of Southern Nevada has teamed up with the Stormwater Quality Management Committee to launch a poster contest for 4th and 5th grade students in Clark County. Poster submissions should support the message "How you can prevent stormwater pollution." Entries will be accepted until March 14, 2008.  Along with launching the poster contest, CDSN is introducing the newly created stormwater pollution workbook "Down the Drain Stormwater and You."

Pledge to protect your watershed today at the Wyland Clean Water Challenge, a new art and science program developed by the Wyland Foundation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD) and the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. The Clean Water Challenge is designed to instruct and inspire young people everywhere about the conservation of water quality on our planet. Through a unique range of continually updated activities, students are offered a global view of our planet’s oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, and wetlands, and our relationship to one of our greatest natural resources.

This spring, students across the country can monitor the migration of monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, and other animals via interactive maps available at Journey North, an internet based program that explores the interrelated aspects of seasonal change.