Use the links below to a day-by-day recounting of our Adventure in Education
Day 1- March 22
Caravan Departure Seal Beach NWR
to
Sacramento NWR
via
Tule Elk Reserve
The Van and Trailer are loaded with the mobile displays, stuffed and mounted birds, the Children's Wildlife Handouts created by Friends of the Seal Beach NWR Volunteer Artist Doris Bryce, Tim Anderson has spent hundreds of hours shooting and editing video and still images into a 22 minute presentation, John Fitch has trained us in the importance of refuges to migratory birds, we've been trained in sharing our message of conservation of our Natural Heritage, Lori de la Cuesta and Patti Smith have made sure that all the refuges that we are going to are expecting us, it is time to go!
On the road at last. Months of planning meetings, hours of phone calls, hundreds of e-mails, training sessions,
hundreds of hours of computing to create our educational handouts and vehicle graphics; the list goes on and on
First Stop, Tule Elk Reserve in the San Joaquin Valley
The Tule Elk Refuge gave us our first major bird sighting, a Great Horned Owl on its nest in the back yard of the Refuge Managers residence.