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The Leopold Education Project is
the Youth Education Program of PHEASANTS FOREVER. It is an innovative, interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and
environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of the
renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold.
The Leopold Education Project teaches the public about humanity's
ties to the natural environment in the effort to conserve and
protect the earth's
natural
resources.
One day teacher workshops, two day facilitator training sessions and
a weekend long Advanced National Meeting can be attended by
interested teachers and others interested in conservation
education. Much of the Advanced LEP Program is conducted outside some of it at
Leopold's Shack
near Baraboo.
 
The faculty included two of Leopold's
daughters Nina, & Estelle, and other experts from across the country 
Buddy, Curator of the Leopold Foundation takes us on a tour
of the Shack showing off a patch of Prairie Dropseed. Art
Hawkins, one of Leopolds first Grad Students, who went on to be
famous for his research on Quail, explains how the area had
originally been a pile of brush cleared from the rest of the
prairie. After burning Leopold seeded the Dropseed to
use as a seed source.  
Dishes are ready, supper is ready in the Dutch Oven
 
Some journaling of the days event, then its off to bed early, before you know it is
Sunrise at the Shack
The field trip for the 2002 LEP
Advanced National Meeting was to Fanville Grove Station which had been a
cooperative effort between local farmers and Aldo Leopold and his graduate
students to save and renovate native prairies found in the area. Art
Hawkins was its first graduate student. Every year he returns with his
wife, the daughter of the original owner, to the site of their wedding for
"prairie days" a family work day on the land. Art & his wife talk with
Buddy Huffacker Curator of the Leopold Foundation and the LEP Oklahoma State
Coordinator
Art presents a short history of
work done at the Fanville Grove Sanctuary and then poses with family members
some of which still live and work at the site.
Middle School Students from
Argyle participated in the planting of a Teaching prairie out at the Argyle Rod
& Gun Club along HWY 81
 
Hundreds of small holes were dug. Over 500 plants were placed in
the ground in groups of 20-30 around fence posts
About 30 different species of
wildflowers were used. In just over 2 hours the whole
fence line was planted.
Once the plants start to
bloom, signs will be added to identify the different flowers
E-Mail: savanasp@tds.net
Savanna Springs #: 608/ 328-2300
Home Phone: 608/ 325-4606 Cell Phone #: 608/ 558-2075
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