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Show Local Summer Outdoor Program Offers Opportunity for Youth As the complexity of various va-rious environmental programs prog-rams increases, and as it becomes more obvious that our young people are going to be stuck with solving problems, more and better educational experiments are going to be needed. Many such experiments will fail, ana win be discarded. Others Oth-ers will succeed, grow, and develop into major programs. prog-rams. One that seems certain cer-tain to succeed is the Grand County School District's Dis-trict's summer education program. It not only looks like a very good education- . al effort, but is obviously going to be a lot of fun for the students, too. The three weeR session offers credit toward graduation gradu-ation in a variety of subjects sub-jects such as math, social1 sciences, earth sciences, and others. Each session will include some classroom work under the direction of regular teachers augmented augment-ed by outside speakers, (films, etc. A major part of each session, however, will be devoted to field trips some of them pretty extensive. By making arrangements for special tours of Utah and Colorado areas, the organizers or-ganizers of the courses have assured that students get more of value and have a good time while doing it. The Bureau of Land Management, Man-agement, the U. S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service are all assisting as-sisting by providing special activities. BLM will assist on a one day tour of lands they manage, discussing land management for grazing, graz-ing, mining, watersheds, recreation, and others. The Forest Service is cooperating cooperat-ing 'by organizng a tour of Manti-LaSal National Forest lands, where discussion dis-cussion of forest management, manage-ment, wildlife, forest recreation rec-reation use,' and other subjects sub-jects will add to students' understanding of land uses. The National Park Service will conduct a special hike of the Fiery Furnace at Arches National Monument and has arranged special tours and guide service for a three-day trip to Mesa Verde National Park. Each agency will provide information infor-mation on the different philosophies of public land use, the methods, procedures, proced-ures, and "tools of the trade," and will contrast the differing goals their agencies pursue. The assistance assis-tance of the Federal agencies agen-cies promises to give students' stu-dents' a more comprehensive comprehen-sive understanding of land uses around Moab than most of their parents have! 'Many other interesting activities are planned, and the three week session sounds like a very pleasant way to learn. The teachers who originated the idea and are organizing the program deserve a lot of credit. They report that some vacancies still remain for the second session, which starts on June 28 and runs through July 16. A $20 fee covers all expen- ses, including meals during field trips, transportation, Insurance, etc. It sounds like an educational bargain barg-ain and an adventuresome opportunity for students. The teachers who are organizing org-anizing it, and the parents' and students with the good sense to take advantage of it all deserve a lot of credit. |