Community Education
We educate and engage the community and visitors through activities on environmental topics and current issues. Intersectionality is present in most Community Education events – from art to social justice and so much in between we attempt to bring issues to light by inviting experts to facilitate events with us.
We sponsor and organize walks geared towards families or all people. During our Family Nature Walk series, we aim to host events throughout the bioregion and ensure the education is fun and enlightening for the whole family. Learn more by clicking below!
We also educate through our Youth Environmental Education series. These events are geared towards children and often are tailored to meet the needs of the youth of a wide age and developmental range. These events may be in a classroom with an associated field, indoors or outdoors, within an educational institution or not. Still, they always educate and engage on environmental issues with the same intersectionality as our Family Nature Walk series. Learn more by clicking below!
In addition to our Family Nature Walk Series and Youth Education series, we coordinate special events and attend events that include films, presentations, online events, workshops, and other types of education.
Our Community Education Program has embraced the needs of the community over many years and we’ve been flexible in our offerings.
We coordinated and edited the Sustainability Column in the Mount Shasta Herald during the early 2000’s and then picked it up again in 2018 until the Herald was bought out by Gannett and the column was removed along with all of the local content. We covered environmental topics and encouraged local writers to submit story ideas for us to help edit to be published.
In 2015, we reviewed the ongoing effects of human-caused climate change on our bioregion, resulting in the Renew Siskiyou climate adaptation study which has helped guide our programs and develop priorities. We also recognize the groundwork this effort built that has led to collaboratives such as the Siskiyou Climate Collaborative.