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The first rule of Conservation Leadership School is that students are given first-hand experience in everything they learn about… from wildlife management to sustainable forestry to dealing with boys. The overnight camp for teens gives young people a great chance to explore environmental science fields, developing critical thinking and scientific research skills, while having a great time with their peers.
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 Conservation
Leadership School
Learn more about CLS and it’s policy of “learning by doing.”
Environmental
Summer Camps
Explore the environmental camp philosophy in a report from GreenWorks
Radio.
The
Environmental University
Discover the great diversity that exists in the world of environmental
sciences.
Follow the links below to learn more about the campers
Teens Find Themselves
If
a Kid Learns in the Forest, Does It Make an Impact
A
Dip in the Watershed
"I enjoy this. I learn better
out here than I do in the classroom,
and I think most of the other people do, too."
 The
Conservation Leadership School’s courses in navigation may have
taught students more than they bargained for. Not only did they get
to try their hands at space-aged navigational technologies, they were
forced to navigate the tricky terrain of working in teams with people
you’ve just met. Some found navigating individually with old-fashioned
compasses was actually easier than trying to learn complicated Global
Positioning System equipment in just a few hours. But all the students
learned to pull together, and to have a good time.
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"I learned that it's not really
going to, like, kill the world if we cut down some trees.
So long as it's not clear cutting, or cut too quickly for the trees
to be replaced"
 Forestry
is the art and science of managing forests from a variety of different
perspectives: wildlife preservation, sustainable timber harvest, recreation
and aesthetics. At the Conservation Leadership School, campers got
the opportunity to develop their own first-hand perspectives of the
field. In doing so, they gained real world experience that will help
them make career and consumer decisions that will affect them, their
communities and our environment forever.
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“For the most part, the
quality of the water was very good up in the mountains.
But as we got downstream, the quality got worse… I never really
thought about water that way.
I just thought of it as water. ”
 By
comparing the quality of water and variety of life in a single river
both upstream and down, students were able to actually see, hear,
touch, smell and taste the impact that modern agricultural, housing
and industrial practices have on the water. These experiments not
only taught them technical skills, they opened their minds to the
environmental importance of ordinary decisions most of us make on
a daily basis.
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