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Sharing Nature Workshop

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The Redwood Science Project and the HSU Natural History Museum bring world renowned naturalist and author Joseph Cornell to the North Coast for a lecture and two-day workshop.  Joseph is the author of six books including Sharing Nature with Children and Sharing the Joy of Nature.  His activities, including Heart Beat of a Tree, Camera, and Wild Animal Scramble, are staples of summer camps, nature classes, and after-school children’s programs.  

The Sharing Nature Workshop takes place on May 1 and 2 amongst the redwoods of Wolf Creek Education Center in Orick.  The workshop is open to anyone wishing to learn techniques for inspiring connections between people and nature.  Parents, teachers and naturalists get a rare treat, to learn from the originator of the most widespread environmental education program in the world today.  Joseph’s pioneering Flow Learning techniques are focused the first day of the workshop on younger children and the second day on middle schoolers to adults. This remarkable experience leaves participants refreshed, inspired and gives them the tools to take kids outside to experience the natural world.  The fee is $120 for HSU students and $180 for the general public.  The fee includes the workshop plus four meals and overnight lodging at Wolf Creek (near Prairie Creek State Park.)  

There is a free lecture by Joseph Cornell for the public on Friday, April 30 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Humboldt Bay Aquatics Center on Waterfront Drive in Eureka.  

Partners for the project are Save-the-Redwoods League, First 5 Humboldt, Redwood National and State Parks, Wells Fargo Bank, and North Coast CREEC.

Please call the Redwood Science Project at 826-5552 or go to www.humboldt.edu/~rsp/cornell for more information and to reserve your spot for the Sharing Nature Workshop with Joseph Cornell.

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