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(106) Learning and Working Among the Oaks
Bill Tietje and Beverly Gingg, University of California, Berkeley, CA
“Learning and Working Among the Oaks”, funded by the California Wildlife Conservation Board’s Oak Woodland Conservation Act, provides hands-on learning for youth and adults. “Learning Among the Oaks” developed an interpretive trail on private ranch land adjacent to an elementary (K-6) school. The trail provides students, teachers, parents, and community groups with learning activities in oak woodland ecology within the context of a working cattle ranch. “Working Among the Oaks” provides a forum for teaching and learning among ranchers, the owners of the California oak woodlands. The program includes workshops, the sharing of management and conservation success stories, and development and implementation of a rancher teaching and evaluation tool, termed a Positive Points System for Ranchers. “Learning and Working Among the Oaks” assists in keeping working landscapes in the family. In this
way, California oak woodland, which occurs mostly on agriculturally-zoned land, will also be sustained.
Bill Tietje
University of California
Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
Phone: 805-781-5938
Fax: 805-781-4316
wdtietje@nature.berkeley.edu