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Five Lessons for Boosting Career Skills in a Clean Energy Economy
South Texas InstructorsWhen Jobs for the Future and National Wildlife Federation teamed up to create the Greenforce Initiative with 100 community colleges and dozens of employers across six states in...
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Weekly News Roundup: It’s Pollinator Week and more!
This week marks National Pollinator Week! Take the time to learn about the many different pollinating animal species that pollinate our crops and wildflowers. Pollinators such as the bumble bee,...
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Big Night: Teaching Kids About Vernal Pools
Guest post by Heather Stephenson. In late March or early April, a warm rain will fall and spotted salamanders will emerge from underground in the evening to return to vernal pools to breed. This...
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How to Get Kids Hooked on Fishing and Create Future Conservationists
For many good reasons, fishing is one of the country’s most popular pastime activities, with roughly 50 million Americans pursuing hundreds of different fish species on countless different waterbodies...
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Weekly News Roundup: NWF’s Photo Contest Deadline Extended and more
Every year, the National Wildlife Federation holds a photo contest for wildlife enthusiasts. In its 44th year, the National Wildlife Photo Contest offers winners the opportunity to have their photo...
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My Days On The Bay
Canoeing at Dawn on Port Isobel. NWF photo by Laura Hickey.It’s true: I am a very fortunate person and I have the coolest job. And, I was lucky enough to be asked to attend a Chesapeake Bay Foundation...
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Ranger Rick vs Rocket Raccoon
Easter Egg Spoiler Alert! If you haven’t seen the Guardians of the Galaxy movie and don’t want to know any spoilers – including easter eggs – bookmark this page and save until after you’ve seen the...
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Welcoming Fall to Your Schoolyard Habitat
Students at PS 146—the New School in Brooklyn, NewYork—explore pollinators in their Schoolyard Habitat. Photo courtesy PS 146.Fall is a great time to welcome students back to school, get them outside...
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Nature Play Coming to Every Community
Every parent who has ever watched a child play in nature has cause to rejoice. NWF’s guide Nature Play & Learning Places: Creating and Managing Places Where Children Engage with Nature shows how to...
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4 School Year Resolutions for Going Green
Guest post by Jessica Brown Back to school is the perfect time for making school year resolutions to go green. Habits developed in September can easily last throughout the year. By taking the time to...
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School Greening for a Pre-K Audience
A kindergartener explores the soil at Clark Fork School. Photo credit: Kris LitzClark Fork School (CFS) is an educational cooperative where experience in nature and a progressive, place-based...
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Play-oriented learning in a UNIQUE School Garden
The construction of the school garden and learning center at Clark Fork School. Photo credit: Kris LitzClark Fork School (CFS) is an educational cooperative where experience in nature and a...
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Mentor, Mentee: Who’s helping who?
The role mentors play in the lives of students is invaluable and can often lead to extraordinary experiences, both for the mentor and the mentees. This couldn’t be more evident than in San Antonio,...
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Throw a Ranger Rick Halloween Party!
As one of the editors for Ranger Rick magazine, I get to create lots of kid-friendly crafts and recipes. Since autumn is my favorite time of the year, coming up with fun activities for Halloween is the...
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National Wildlife Federation and the Atlanta Woman’s Club Host Youth...
Students from Tallulah Falls School“You are unique. You are important…” The “Power of One” was the theme of the day for the inaugural Youth Conservation Leadership Summit hosted by NWF and the Atlanta...
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NWF Earth Tomorrow® Leaders get ‘Down and Dirty’ for Rivers Alive
Earth Tomorrow students participate in Rivers Alive Creek and Park Clean-upYouth leaders from National Wildlife Federation’s Atlanta Earth Tomorrow® Program joined forces with Atlanta community...
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Eco-Schools USA Goes to College
Christy Boussard at the Northwest Montessori School garden.Northwest Montessori is a private school in Seattle, Washington educating students Pre-K thru middle school. The school aims to build an...
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Sweet Treats for Wildlife Lovers
Winter has arrived in full force across much of the United States. It’s cold, dark, and, by my estimate, miserable outside, so why not treat yourself to some candy? When the winter blues strike, not...
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It’s for the Birds! Certifying Baltimore as a Community Habitat
For years Baltimore has been known as Birdland and now, we can make it official. Baltimore plans to B’More Wild, and bird-friendly, by becoming certified as an NWF Community Wildlife Habitat®- the...
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National Wildlife Week: Cooper City Creates a Home for Burrowing Owls
Burrowing owls in Broward County, FLIn late February, more than 40 families joined together at Forest Lake Park in Cooper City, Florida to create 6 artificial burrows for its resident burrowing owls....
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