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(33) Aldo Leopold: Igniting a Land Ethic in Your Community
Janine Kohn - Pheasants/Quail Forever-Leopold Education Project, St. Paul, MN
Concurrent Session: B3: Extension Program Models
Explore this award-winning, international, innovative LEP program which cultivates Aldo Leopold’s philosophy: “To teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.”
Discover how the Leopold Education Project’s (LEP) resource materials are being used nationally by Extension clientele. Listen to success stories and partnership opportunities that can enhance your existing youth conservation programs!
Developed for diverse audiences, these hands-on materials are equally useful for formal/informal educators, naturalists, national/state park environmental instructors, resource managers, Scouts, 4-H program leaders and extension agents, WHEP coaches, and private citizens. One major premise is that Leopold’s writings are both sound science and excellent literature, making them an outstanding springboard for meaningful conservation education!
Participants will engage in easy, adaptable hands-on activities which directly correlate to Leopold’s conservation classic, A Sand County Almanac. Instructors will share techniques on how to develop personal land ethics by using LEP’s interactive materials in a practical and effective approach to conservation education. Workshop attendees will be provided with take-home activities, as well as resource information and contacts for future partnership opportunities in their local region.
Aldo Leopold believed that people should learn how to discover beauty in commonplace events and places. He saw aesthetics as a measure of how we view the rightness and wrongness of our actions. Leopold also believed that people were motivated to act by both beauty and duty in natural communities including not only humans, but soil, water, plants and wildlife. Increased urbanization has created a sense of landlessness among much of our population, especially in our youth. Come join us in Aldo Leopold’s backyard and learn ways that you can introduce a land ethic to tomorrow’s stewards.
Janine Kohn
Pheasants/Quail Forever
1783 Buerkle Circle
St. Paul, MN 55110, USA
Phone: 877-773-2070
Fax: 651-773-5500
Email: jkohn@pheasantsforever.org