Forestry, Wood, and Wildlife-A Library of Educational Links

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Habitat Stewards™ Program
Habitat Stewards™ is a volunteer education program of the National Wildlife Federation® and, in Maine, is a joint effort with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. In a 30-hour program, you learn how to improve habitat for wildlife in yards, workplaces and other areas in the landscape. In return, you volunteer for 30 hours doing habitat education or service projects in your community. The next program will be in the Fall 2008. Call or email the Androscoggin-Sagadahoc Counties Extension Office in Lisbon Falls, Tel: 207-353-5550 or 1-800-287-1458 (Maine only), if you want to receive notification of the course. Contact for the Habitats Stewards™ Program is Nancy Coverstone.

Earth Connections Volunteers: Creating Sustainable Communities

This volunteer education program focuses on developing an understanding our interconnected world and how each of us can contribute to creating a sustainable future. Volunteers participate in a 30-hour course of study, and commit to conducting 30 hours of community outreach in collaboration with a community group, school, or conservation organization, or as an independent project of their own design. For more information contact Cathy Elliott at 207-581-2902, celliott@umext.maine.edu, or go to our website.

Wildlife Journal PDF WORD (text only)
Nancy Coverstone, University of Maine Extension Educator in Androscoggin and Sagadahoc Counties created this 29-page journal for tracking wildlife observations.

Wild About Nature
33 columns that originally appeared in the Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine. Nancy Coverstone, University of Maine Extension Educator in Androscoggin and Sagadahoc Counties ,wrote about the wildlife, habitat, life and nature that we experience here in Maine.

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