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The Sierra Institute and Greenville Jr./Sr. High School have launched a Natural Resource Academy that connects the outdoors and field-based projects with classroom work. This project will develop a comprehensive field program for 7th through 12th grade students, focusing on establishing long-term stewardship and watershed monitoring sites in 1) the Lights Creek Watershed damaged by the (fall of 2007) 65,000-acre Moonlight Fire and 2) a CalTrans wetland mitigation site close to school.
4438 Main st
Taylorsville, CA 95983
http://www.sierrainstitute.us/
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530-284-1022
Jonathan Kusel
A great example of the role the Academy plays at Greenville High School is the 2010 statewide Envirothon. This statewide competition involves a panel of judges that ask students about the environment in five major categories including: Aquatics, Forestry, Wildlife, Soils, and a current issue. The current issue this year concerned groundwater. Greenville Natural Resource Academy students attended and scored 7th overall out of 15 schools and 4th out of 15 in current events.
This Spring, Greenville Academy students initiated a restoration project at the Feather River Land Trust’s Heart K Ranch. Students collected willows for propagation in the school greenhouse. Due to weather, the willows will be re-planted in the Fall.
In late May, over Academy students planted more than 500 saplings on U.S. Forest Service land and collecting data during planting to compare to survival on future monitoring visits.
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