Completed Competitive Grant

Youth and conservation methods

Project ID: 1999-58

Abstract

How to get young people interested in conservation and environmental preservation is a concern for educators and environmental groups. One possibility explored here was to encourage students to speak with people who are carrying out agricultural conservation practices and then try to summarize these ideas and experiences in a videotape.

Lead investigator: Don Groff, Woodbine Community Schools

Year of grant completion: 2000

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Human systems, demographics and beginning farmer programs

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