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Show Wildlife Workshop for Teachers Slated Wildlife Management Teacher's Tea-cher's Workshop is one of the few environmental workshops work-shops in the nation keyed specifically to wildlife," says Don Paul, Wildlife Resources Resour-ces information officer and A unique wildlife workshop for elementary and secondary secon-dary school teachers will be held June 22-26 at the North Fork Environmental Center in upper Ogden Valley under -the direction of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Resour-ces and the Weber School District. "This Fourth Annual Utah coordinator of the workshop. The teachers will learn practical methods of involving involv-ing students with wildlife and wildlife resource management. man-agement. The workshop will include many activities and "hands on" experiences, says Paul. Field trips will be taken to Mantua Hatchery, Hardware Ranch and a waterfowl management area. Principles Princi-ples of wildlife management, such as lake and stream electrofishing, evaluating aquatic habitat and examining examin-ing grouse wings to identify age and sex, will be taught. A special teacher's guide has been developed for this course. " Wildlife biologists from the Division of Wildlife Resources Resour-ces will help -instruct this year's workshop. The cost to teachers outside the Weber School District is $50. This includes food, lodging, instructional materials mater-ials and field trip transportation transporta-tion during the 5-day workshop. work-shop. For a small fee, Utah State University is offering graduate credit hours. |