September 7, 2022
As the long summer days slowly wane, the Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument summer K-12 educational program has also come to a close. We are thrilled by the success of our very first season of Nature Day Camps in partnership with The Crest at Willow-Witt and BLM’s Medford District. Between June-August 2022, we offered nine full-day environmental education programs at two different sites within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. In total, our Interpretive Rangers served over 200 local Kindergarten - 6th grade camper Monument Days! Participating students traveled from all over the Rogue Valley to join us at the Greensprings Mountain Loop and Hobart Bluff trails, including places as far as Eagle Point and Northern California.
Friends Executive staff, Board Members, and Interpretive Rangers recently met with lead staff and educators from The Crest to celebrate our educational accomplishments for the year and to discuss potential improvements to our “Monument Days” for next year. We look forward to planning new program sites, new lesson themes and topics, and to increasing our capacity to connect with additional local communities in future.
Words by Interpretive Ranger Elizabeth Mackey.
