“This project has all the elements of a real-world learning experience,” said Kari O’Connell, an educator with Oregon State’s Oregon Natural Resources Education Program. “The students will be doing math, science and art and practicing their language skills. It also involves their families. One of the teachers has already translated information into Spanish so that Spanish-speaking families in Oregon can be involved.”

The Oregon Natural Resource Education program was featured in a piece in the January 21, 2013 issue of High Country News.  ONREP was noticed for its' work in educating teachers in Oregon forests, wildlife and climate change.  Teachers, in turn, educate kids in K-12th grade in natural resources.

Congratulations to the team of Amy Grotta, Chip Bubl, Glenn Ahrens, LeeAnn Mikkelson, Susan Sahnow, and Lena Etuk for receiving the Outreach & Engagement Innovations in Partnerships Award for their Vernonia Rural Sustainability Project, assisting the community of Vernonia re-establish their new school and natural resources-based curriculum following a series of devastating floods.  Vernonia is part of ONREP's Stewardship Schools program.

Four Oregon middle school teachers worked with project scientist Peder Nelson to create a poster for the ForestSAT 2012 conference which was the 5th in a series of international conferences promoting scientifically based understanding of how spatial analysis technologies can help describe and monitor forested systems.  These teachers were participants in ONREP's Researcher Teacher Partnerships program.  The poster described how the teachers engaged middle school students in landscape change investigations using Landsat imagery and LandTrendr analysis.