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Just How Did Sarah Get a COP26 Badge?
Genuine relationships, commitment to do 'the work', staying connected over time and geographic distance, and reaching out for...
Oct 24, 2021
What is COP? Acronym Soup Explained
What is COP? COP26 stands for the Conference of the Parties hosted by the United Nations. Each year for the past 25 years, 197 countries...
Oct 18, 2021
Dry Smoky Isolated Mountain Home - My Climate Story
I am an environmental educator in the 21st century in the United States of America. I am a white woman with more years of formal...
Aug 30, 2021
United or Not Here We Come, Glasgow!
Last evening my first of many covid tests results came in negative. I packed my limited luggage (traveling light) with snacks and extra...
Jan 1, 2021
Help Wanted: Finding Our Patient Courage, Resiliency, and Hope
By Sarah R. Johnson We are desperate for a new story, a promising narrative, words of encouragement grounded in our history of tenacity,...
Oct 23, 2020
Award for Excellence in EE Awarded to Youth Water Leadership Program
The Youth Water Leadership Program was selected and awarded a 2020 Award for Excellence in Environmental Education: Innovative EE Program...
Oct 21, 2020
Let's Talk Rivers: New Civic Engagement Tool
During the 2019 spring semester, Wild Rose Education's intern Jessy Stevenson worked remotely from Missoula, Montana to collaborate on...
May 7, 2019
Earth Education Expands to Teach Active Participation in Public Life
By Sarah R. Johnson, MAEd, Wild Rose Education Originally published at InTeGrate Science Education Resource Center As the world continues...
Jan 17, 2019
Raising Up a Fire: Stoked on Conservation?
Published 8/17/18 by Aldo Leopold Foundation Like most environmental educators and park interpreters, I have a strong commitment to...
Sep 19, 2018
Reframing, Rethinking, and Re-inspiring Professional Training
How well do your professional development trainings leverage the collective wisdom and experience of the participants, foster a culture...
Aug 8, 2018
The Summer it Was Difficult to be Brave
As the sooty smoke fills the air on day 29 of wildfire in the Roaring Fork Valley, one 12,588 acre wildfire is 90% contained and another...
Aug 1, 2018
Feathers, Dead Baby Birds, and Eggshells: A Most Authentic Investigation
It is not often that an outdoor science educator has unlimited unstructured time at a nature preserve with a small group of only six 8-12...
Jul 11, 2018
My Dreams for My Country, Its People, and Its Landscape
On this January 15, 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the public storm is becoming stronger than most are comfortable to bear. People are...
Jan 15, 2018
Watersheds are for Learning
I love to teach. I am a connector. Thinking like a watershed is my nature, not my job. Rivers connect us to each other across...
Jul 5, 2017
Watersheds Hold Connections: My Water Story
Flying across my headwaters state of Colorado on the spring equinox my forehead is glued to the small oval window of the regional jet. We...
Mar 21, 2017
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