Nature Education Archive
Posted by GGAS in
Golden Gate Audubon, Nature Education
This spring, Golden Gate Audubon partnered with the East Oakland Boxing Association to offer a pilot eight-week high school environmental program. EOBA is a 25-year-old youth leadership organization located on 98th Avenue, just a few miles from Arrowhead Marsh. Besides offering athletic training, EOBA hosts after-school tutoring, an organic garden internship, classes in dancing, cookin…
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Golden Gate Audubon, Nature Education
By Ilana DeBare
Fifteen wiggly fourth graders crowded into a narrow asphalt strip between their North Richmond schoolyard and the fence bordering Rheem Creek. “You are standing in what may be your future rain garden!” declared landscape architect Bob Birkeland, a volunteer with Golden Gate Audubon’s Eco-Education program.
That didn’t seem to mean much to the kids, who wer…
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Birding, Nature Education
Note: Golden Gate Audubon is delighted to reprint this blog post by Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, an organization that reconnects African-Americans with natural spaces and one another through recreational activities such as camping, hiking, biking and birding. Rue lives in Oakland with her three children and worked as a Development Associate at GGAS in 2009-10.
By Rue Mapp
“I’m n…
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Posted by Marissa Ortega Welch in
Golden Gate Audubon, Nature Education
By Marissa Ortega-Welch
This month we ran the first-ever Golden Gate Audubon Society “Wildlife Discoverers” summer camp for children. As I sit here going through all the photos from our week, I am struck by what a truly amazing time it was.
We really couldn’t have asked for a better group of campers. The kids ranged in age from six to ten and came from all over the East Bay and from all walks of life – s…
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Posted by Anthony DeCicco in
Golden Gate Audubon, Nature Education
By Anthony DeCicco
With the school year ending, it was time for me to write up the annual summary of Golden Gate Audubon’s Eco-Education Program, in which we lead kids and families from twelve low-income elementary schools in discovering nature and wildlife.
The past year included 50 weekday field trips to local wetland and riparian habitats, over ten family trips to Muir Beach and Alcatraz, and 30 exp…
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