Youth & Education Programs
Conservation Field Days
Offered Spring and Fall to 5th and 6th Graders in the Pepin County School District. Education is structured around the environment and conservation as it relates to various natural resource issues. Examples: Water, Forestry, Agriculture, Wildlife, Recycling etc.
Conservation Field Days 2011
Water Action Volunteers Program (WAV) Are you looking for a little extra to do? How about volunteering in the stream monitoring program?
WAV is an educational opportunity for you to get outdoors and examine your local streams. You will be trained by your local program coordinator through written methods, classroom instructors and hands on in the 6 WAV parameters. These 6 parameters are dissolved oxygen, temperature, turbidity, stream flow, habitat and stream macroinvertebrate life. The data that you collect will be used for a database that will show stream health and conditions. Anyone is able to access this database of Wisconsin streams at watermonitoring.uwex.edu/wav/
Smokey Bear This program is presented to 2nd graders in the Pepin County school district. It provides awareness and education of fire prevention. The presentation is given by the DNR Forester with Smokey Bear making a guest appearance.
Conservation Poster Contest is held in the schools of Pepin County early spring. 3 winners in each category are selected at the county level and receive trophies. Their posters are entered into the Area Contest where first place winners advance on to the State contest in November. Posters shall depict an area of environmental awareness or conservation of natural resources .
Conservation & Environmental Awareness Speaking Contest Youth in Grades 5-12 are eligible to participate in the contest. Speeches must promote the conservation of natural resources and the protection or enhancement of environmental quality. Topics should address soil and water conservation. Emphasis should be placed on the subject as it relates to Wisconsin. The county level contest is held every fall at the Durand Government Center . First place winners in each division compete at the Area Level. First place Area level winners compete at the State level in Stevens Point in November.
State contest..location to be announced.
Land Judging Contest
A Tri-County Soil Judging Contest is held each year in September or October. Students from schools in Dunn, Buffalo and Pepin Counties participate in the event. The contest is rotated amongst the 3 counties.
Conservation Grocery Bag Project
In celebration of Arbor Day,
Earth Day and Soil & Water
Stewardship Week, schools in
Pepin County decorate grocery
bags donated by Econofoods
of Durand, WI. The bags are
decorated with environmental
messages. The bags are passed
out to happy shoppers at Econofoods
who receive a clear and positive
message that the students in
our schools care about the
environment.
Arbor Day Free Tree Program for Fourth Graders
In celebration of Arbor Day, the DNR along with Pepin County Land Conservation, arrange for free tree seedlings for all 4 th graders in Pepin County to plant. To obtain more information on this program, contact the LCD.
For more information visit Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association’s website www.wlwca.org