Hands on the Great Land

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Hands on the Great Land

• Progress in Connecting Students and Educators
  with the Outdoors

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Campbell Creek Science Centeroutdoor science
education facility on the 730 acre parcel within
municipality of Anchorage contains 12 miles of
trails, forests and creeks that are BLM managed

• Opened in 1996 A Hands on the Land Site since
  1999
• 40,000 visitors annually education programs
  K-12, programs for families, adults, teacher
  workshops, monitoring programs for residents
  water quality, butterfly counts,creek
  bio-assessments, plant collection
• Has received funding for development
  implementation of 12 educational programs
  correlated with ASD standards that remain the
  core of their programming support for the
  Ecosystem Explorers Program, Earth Ranger
  Academy, Design a Science Day for 3-6th grades,
  and Teacher Academy Anchorage School District,
  Committee for Resource Education, Waterways
  Council, AK Natural History Institute, USFWS,
  USGS, FS, ADFG, and University of AK, Anchorage
  Campus
• Just implemented assessment of its Ecosystem Pack
  program

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Time alone and together
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Chugach National ForestGlacier Ranger District
is located in Girdwood east of

• Forest Centennial year A Hands on the Land site
  since July, 2005
• 140,000 visitors to Begich Boggs Visitor Center
  annually, 3,552 students participated in the
  Forest Ranger Academy, 3rd graders (Tree, Aqua
  Storm rangers) Each unit has pre-and post
  testing
• Has received funding to re-invigorate its Forest
  Rangers and Explorers programs (snow shoes and
  outer and purchased Elmo computer projector) The
  latter is a summer multi-day camp program that
  uses the Smart classroom newly built on the
  Center in 2005. Linking Girls to the Land (GSA)
  grant brought 100 girls for revegetation of
  gravel pits on National Public Lands Day.
• State of AK Marine Highway Program, Alaska
  Natural History Institute, Holland America,
  Anchorage School District, Girdwood Community
  Schools, AK Wildlife Conservation Center, AK
  Railroad Corporation, major marine tours
• Just implemented a summer teacher Institute,
  summer service projects through the Municipality
  of Anchorages Youth Employment in the Parks
  (YEP) and developing a web page on the Begich
  Boggs Visitor Center to be linked to the Hands on
  the Land site.

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Tongass National ForestA Forest of Green Islands
in a Sea of Blue

• Forest Alexander Archipelago Preserve Centennial
  in 2003 Hands on the Land site since March, 2006
• Annually 325,000 visitors to two world class
  visitor centers 3037 students and 500 teachers
  served at the SE Alaska Discovery Center,
  Ketchikan, Revillagigedo Island
• Received 8,000 as seed money to launch HOL in
  June, 2006 funded Exploring Island Ecosystems
  project using newly outfitted Ecovan funded
  enhancement of Coffman Cove community archaeology
  project and Valentine School funded Healthy
  Soils and Watersheds Initiative, Ketchikan
  Charter School (K-8)
• Partners SE Island, Klawock, Hydaburg, Craig,
  and Ketchikan School Districts, Cities of Thorne
  Bay and Coffman Cove, Thorne Bay Business
  Association, Wrangell Cooperative Association,
  Project Archaeology, Bureau of Land Management,
  Ketchikan Charter School, Prince William Network
• Addition of Geology and Paleontology resources in
  the Forest overview section, and three
  interactive websites, Americas Rainforests,
  Migration Science Mystery, and Alaska Fossil
  Database hotlinked to site Migration Mystery is
  currently offering webcasts and chats following
  migrating shorebirds from Panama to the Arctic
  preparing to add ongoing longitudinal monitoring
  studies, Stream Team, and interagency effort with
  NPS on Baranof Island two slide shows and
  Watershed Curriculum posted on site.

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