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PathwaysOfcial Publication of the New York State Outdoor Education Association Fall 2011


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This fall I participated in two conferences, theNAAEE conference in North Carolina and theNYSOEA conference at Villa Roma Resort inCallicoon, NY. Each was inspiring, each provideda learning experience, and each was a gatheringof professionals. The NAAEE conference hadover 800 participants and NYSOEA had fewer

than 200 in attendance. What sets us apart is the truest meaning of networkingand mentorship: a believable meaning of a sense of place. If we are to partner andplan for an Environmentally Literate New York, we are going to have to use thoseskills as we visit with our teachers and our students, administrators, and even healthprofessionals. We can share the wonder of the Rocky Mountains or the MightyMississippi, but citizens of New York are going to have to appreciate and care forthe water that we drink in the reservoir outside of town or the groundwater beneath

our feet. We will have to appreciate the trees on our center site or school grounds.We will be responsible to recycle at home at work and at play. We are going tohave to understand what is important to a child who may not have enough to eat fordinner each night or the teen who has found out they are going to be a parent. Wewill have to appreciate and understand those that have been out of work and thosethat have never set foot in a place we are familiar with. We need for New Yorkersto appreciate what they have around them and feel a stewardship strong enough toprotect it. As you continue in your work, try to inspire that appreciation and foster anunderstanding. Who knows: it may be you who planted the seeds early in life forsomeone who will make ecological decisions somewhere down the road!

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NYSOEA EXECUTIVE BOARD

PresidentMary Lynne Malone

President-ElectTim Stanley

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Jessica Kratz (Editor)

Richard Parisio (Poetry Editor)Frank Knight (Member)Matt Fraher (Layout)Nicole Gatherer (Teacher)Jonathan Duda (Marketing Manager)Snapper Petta (Member)

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there it is: an en masse 21st century expression of acollective return to nature, to a symbol of hope and healingExpressed differently, it contains the same poetic impulseand expression of community that came across peoplea decade ago. Brilliantly colored and low in the sky, theHarvest Moon, which peaked on September 12th this year,provides farmers with additional time to bring in cropsand the rest of us with some celestial reassurance, anopportunity to begin to feel better.Released nearly two decades ago, Neil YoungsHarvest Moon captures the power of this particular lunarphenomenon:

But theres a full moon risinLets go dancin in the light

We know where the musics playin

Lets go out and feel the night.

While the 9/11 anniversaries over the past decadehave run the spectrum of September weather, the weatherfor the 10th anniversary in the New York City area wasperfect for the occasion: overcast and around 70 degrees,lacking the erce wind of 2002, the piercing blue sky

of the attacks, or a heavy rain that would have made ituncomfortable to remain outside for long periods of time.And the Harvest Moon seemed to facilitate a transition from

mourning to fonder memories and moods.In September 2002, as I was looking back upon the rstanniversary of the attacks, I wrote:

The sun still provides warmth; the stars will give solace.Father Time still brings us comfort;

Mother Nature still delivers us peace.

Life goes onWe will always remember.

And many marvelous nights and moon dances await us.Be well.

The weeks prior to the tenth anniversaryof the September 11th attacks were, inone word, wet. New York experienced thewettest August on record, and the month

ended with Hurricane Irene causingwidespread destruction. Yet Naturestruck somewhat of a balance on the

days that followed, offering clear days andnights with temperatures that were tolerablefor those without electricity, along withthe return of some of late summers mostharmonious sounds: cicadas humming,songbirds chirping, frogs calling.

Undoubtedly, the period of timeafter Hurricane Irene and the period oftime following the attacks on America arelled with signicant suffering, and I am not

attempting to downplay this in any sort of way. But in tryingtimes, it is natural to seek solace in what is beautiful. AndNature can offer solace and beauty, even in trying times.

Nearly as vividly as I remember 9/11/01 as acrisp September morning with a sky as blue as a Robinsegg, I also remember my mother taking my cousin to thepark, and each saw a blue heron for the rst time. I also

remember, in the weeks after the attacks, people cominginto the nature center, thanking us for being open andavailable to them, and saying that they didnt exactly knowwhere they needed to go, but they needed a place to comeand heal. And they intuitively sought the outdoors, andwith it: fresh air, stress relief, exercise, and unexpecteddiscoveries.

In the months following the attacks, I wrote a lotof poetry about nature. I saw Americas colors in nature:crimson red sumac, pure white aster, bold blue chicory.I reinterpreted the symbolism of some other Septemberobservations: .songbirds sing a rolling requiem.. asmeadowhawk dragonies patrol the area and rust-coloredbutteries issue an orange alert. And while there were

some references to fallen leaves and fertile compost, themajority of my observations were skyward.

In March 2002, I came across an article in Sky &Telescope about a Manhattan writers retreat into amateur

astronomy in clear and somewhat darker September skies.In this article, entitled No Escaping the Obvious, MichaelBattaglia says, But we will always be drawn to the stars,and I take some solace knowing that civilizations vitalityand progress may be delayed but will not be stopped.He also describes Earth as verdant and brimming withprogress and stargazing asnot an escape; rather, it isan expression of life itself.

In the days leading up to the 10th anniversary,the moon kept growing. People were posting photos ofthe moon on their Facebook status, and the harvest moonwas a top trending topic on internet search engines. And

EDITORS CORNER: HEALING AND

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Each example is a snapshot of service learningexperiences connected to a professional writing courseIve taught to environmental studies students at the SUNYCollege of Environmental Science and Forestry for the pastnine years. Just like students in a more typical professionawriting course, my students create proposals, workplacecorrespondence, progress reports, training manuals,technical reports, brochures, newsletters, and websites,but inherently, projects in the service learning writing classare more about doing. These projects will be invaluableto non-prot agencies that desperately need these kinds

of materials, but dont have the resources to produce themon their own. In this way, its a win-win situation for bothenvironmental studies students and the sites where theyvolunteer.

Like many environmental issues, service projects areoften rooted in social justice. An example comes fromMary, who last spring volunteered for the grassrootsorganization, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON),

which supports the sovereignty and rights of nativepeoples. Mary says she learned problem-solving skillswhile organizing and moderating a community forum onNative American concerns. In her nal course reection,

she wrote, Many students who come to college inSyracuse remain within the borders of their institutions. Myexperience with NOON helped me realize that Central NewYork is my neighborhood while at college. It felt wonderfulto give back to the Syracuse community in a way thatincluded my passions and interests. Other students haveexpressed similar sentiments about their service learningexperiences.

Benette Whitmore Ph.D.

Director, SUNY ESF Writing Program

Central Regional Director, NYSOEA

Imagine a college writing class. Four walls. Maybe awindow. A professor standing at a podium at the front ofthe room, lecturing on sentence structure. Students sittingat small desks in straight rows, taking notes.

Or not.Now picture this. On a secluded trail at Baltimore

Woods, Andrew sits on a rock, making sketchy notes helluse to design a nature trail guide for children. Over the

sounds of giggling tweens, Caroline and Katie brainstormideas for developing urban environmental educationactivities for neighborhood kids enrolled in an after-schoolprogram at the Westcott Community Center. At BeaverLake Nature Center, Travis drizzles thick maple syrup overa stack of steaming pancakes for a hungry hiker whileimagining possibilities for a volunteer training manual.Kerry stocks shelves at a local food pantry as she cooksup ideas for creating a nutritional guide and recipe bookto help patrons prepare nutritious meals. Lisa leads a

jazz dance class with bouncy 6-year-olds at the SalvationArmys School-Age Program, while a video cameracaptures images shell edit into an instructional video sothe kids can practice their ashy moves over the summer.

LINKING ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

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AUTUMNAL GHAZAL

We turn our backs on summer to face the fall.

High-ying geese and monarchs race the fall.

A rainbows repeating rings astonish us -

a spectrum ash and maple retrace in fall.

A long goodbye to summers soft caress,

as leaves hug earth, becomes embrace of fall.

Goldnches rides on swings of air, green darners

ights over goldenrod preface the fall.

Lets light a candle to dispel the dark

as each new star resumes his place this fall.

Richard, when the last love apples plucked

go to orchards for solace in fall.

- Richard Parisio

Note: The ghazal (pronounced guzzle) is anancient Arabic and Persian verse form that has only afew simple rules. Here they are, in case youd like totry writing one:- the ghazalconsists of couplets (two line stanzas),each of which can stand alone (makes sense byitself, and does not have to relate directly to the restof the poem)

- there is just one rhyme, found in both lines of therst couplet, and the second line of each couplet

following it

- the last word of both lines in the rst couplet is thesame, and is repeated at the end of the second linein all the other couplets

- the poets name is used in the nal couplet

- a ghazalcan have a nature theme, like the oneabove, but any subject is fair game

- have fun, and see if you can surprise yourselfwith what youve written!

Anyone familiar with environmental studiesstudents knows that they like to get involved, and theylearn best when helping others. These students areremarkably passionate about making a difference in theworld, but thats difcult to accomplish in a traditionalclassroom setting. When writing activities are embedded ina community service project that students truly care about,their learning experience becomes much more meaningful

and far-reaching. With service learning, instead of writingfor unknown audiences within ctitious contexts, studentsare writing about subjects that matter to them. And whenwriting has intention, it becomes signicant to the studentwriter, and to the people and agencies that ultimatelybenet from the experience.

Service learning is not without its challenges. Yes,in some respects its easier for students and teachers towork in a conventional writing class, where assignmentsare neat and tidy. Its not so easy when writing takes placein the real world, where deadlines, stafng, funding, andpolitical pressures make everything subject to change. Butthats where students get really excited, and thats whenthey really learn.

So dont look for my environmental studiesstudents sitting in a classroom inside an ivy-coveredbuilding on an idyllic college campus. Instead, youmight see us shooting hoops on an urban playground, orboogying at a dance class for inner-city youth, or staging anevent for environmental activism.

Thats where youll nd us. Out in the community,

doing. Because thats where the real learning happens.

NATURALLYPOETIC

LINKING ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

IN A COLLEGE WRITING CLASS (CONTINUED)


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As I write this central NYS has justreceived another devastating beat downfrom meteorological forces. For the

second time in less than two weeksunending rains ceaselessly dumpedtheir liquid mass over the countryside.Hillsides drained into small creeks,raising them into torrents that lled low

lying areas as if they were bathtubs.Floods even greater than those weexperienced in 2006 have forced tens ofthousands of people to evacuate theirhomes. Roads and villages are eithergone or severely compromised as theirinfrastructure has been ripped from itsmoorings. Like a scene from a movie,farm animals have been swept out oftheir elds, requiring some farmers to

actually herd them back using kayaksand other small water craft. The thoughtrunning through everyones mind nowis pretty straightforwardhow do werecover?

A simple question yet incrediblypoignant. Lives have been lost,businesses destroyed and heartsbroken. The clean-up efforts begun

after last weeks storm have beencompletely erased. Rutted main streetshave returned, schools still arent openfor the year and the devastation goeson. Its as if nothing was ever done postHurricane Irene. All the recovery workthat was completed seems to have beenin vain. The sobering reality is wereright back where we started; and thatsnot a comforting thought.

RAMBLINGS

FROM

REDH

ILL

So what is my point in all of this? Its basically this;nature is unfeeling. It doesnt care about us, ourhomes, loved ones or possessions. The reality isnt

pretty but we need to understand, natureisnt herefor us; it is here for itself. And, the sooner we getpast the Disneycation of the natural world the more

quickly we, as a society, will come to grips with thedevastating power it possesses. The best we can do intimes of natural disaster is to extend ourselves and ourresources to the people who need them. Bemoaningwhats happened wont change a thing; nature doesntcare.

If I sound unsympathetic I apologize for I know rsthandthe power of these recent storms. The oak tree thatcrashed through my mothers car and into our familycabin is testament to my understanding of this. Butit doesnt change the point Im making. Nature, asbeautiful as it can be, also has a wrathful dimension weshould never forget. It is a double edged sword, onethat can easily have us swinging between feelings ofsolace or sorrow.

Can we learn anything from all of this? The easyanswer is yes. As outdoor educators we should nd

ways to incorporate whats happened into our lessons.People need to learn the basics of hydrology, geology,meteorology and other related subjects as they pertain

to these natural events. But the true lesson is muchdeeper than that. Its that wedont have control; naturedoes. If we choose not to understand or accept thisconcept we do so at our own peril and, quite possibly,our students future as well.

Until next time, may all your rambles lead you to newand exciting places.

bySnapperPetta

THE UNFEELING NATURE OF NATURE

Hurricane photo courtesy of www.public-domain-photos.com


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NYSOEA 2006 Art and Literary Awardwinner, Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr., ofFreeport, NY, has published a Christmas-themed childrens book titled The ThreeWise Animals. Poet Patti Tana, EnglishProfessor at Nassau Community College,

predicts, This joyous Christmas story could become thenext holiday classic. Like the three wise men in the Bible,Enrico the Screech Owl (who does not screech, but trillssoftly), Blue Scream the Blue Jay, and Ferris the Red Foxfollow the star to Bethlehem. By including local nativespecies and incorporating vignettes of local landscapes,the biblical story is adapted to depict the natural areasof New York. With sketches inspired by etchings of thefamous 19th century English artist William Blake, illustratorAlice Melzer, Hofstra University instructor, brings to lifethe storys animal characters as they journey throughmountain after mountain/valley after valley/icy brook aftericy brookuntil coming over the top of the last mountain/they look down into the last valley/and see a little townBethlehem.

Wheat served in the early 1980s at co-editor of NYSOEAsformer journal, The Outdoor Communicator. He wasnamed rst Poet Laureate of Nassau County, NY, in 2007.

Childrens Book Review

THE THREE WISE ANIMALSPoem by Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr.with Illustrations by Alice Metzer

Printed on recycled paper, The Three Wise Animalsisavailable for $10 plus $2 shipping from Allbrooks Press,PO Box 562, Selden, NY 11784. Autographed copies areavailable from the author, who may be contacted via emailat [email protected].


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Spiders orb webakinto watching starswheeling across the heavens--daffodils, the sightoods the spiritwith a sense of sunlight--winter teasel stalks, protecting visor,breast-plate and gauntletsveer our thoughts to the knights of old--For a century, Anna Botsford Comstocks

Handbook of Nature-Study, published 1911,heavily, nine hundred thirty eight pages,in book stores, on nature center shelvestoday and for another century, and another

Anna Botsford Comstocks language very visible.Makes streams, ponds, elds, forest oors classrooms.Inspires students -- lie at, face downward by brook or

pond.Watch when a bit of rubbish on the bottom of the brookwalks off.Watch when a little bundle of sand and pebbles takes untoitself legs.

Caddis-y larvae with houses constructed around

themselves:Some of sticks fastened together lengthwiselike logcabins,some of bits of rubbish and silkspun in a spiral, making a little cornucopia.

Encourages children, teachers, mothers, fathersdown on their hands and knees--They observe strange gures traced across a leaf,clues of canny little creatures, leaf miners,caterpillars of tiny moths achieving their complete growthbetween the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf.

Anna Botsford Comstock:

marshall in late 1800s-early 1900s, the Nature StudyMovement.1895-Her nature study program is for all New York Statesschools.She writes, lectures, trains teachers:Columbia, University of Virginia, University of California.1897, Cornells Universitys assistant professornaturestudy,later lectureropposition to woman professor.

What is a eld of goldenrod species?a golden city where the people are all dressed in yellowand where they live together in families;and the families all live on top of their little, green, shingledhouseswhich are set in even rows along the street.

Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr.First Poet LaureateNassau County, New York2007-09

Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930s well known totodays outdoor educators for her book for teachers andparents, Handbook of Nature-Study, published 1911.

It became the guide for the Nature Study Movementoccurring during the turn of the 1800s into the new century.Truly a guide, because the details, vividly described, toldeducators and students clearly what to look for. It tookschool classes into elds, woods and ponds for on-sitelearning about birds, animals and plants, yes, and rocksand stars. After 100 years Handbook of Nature-Study is stilin print.

HER WORDS POWER FOR OUTDOOR TEACHERSThe words of Anna Botsford Comstock span a century of outdoor education

nature-study gives the childa sense of companionship with life out

of doors and an abiding love of nature.

Handbook of Nature Study, 1911Anna Botsford Comstock

1854-1930


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CHORUS:

TUM TE TA TATUM TE TA TATUM TE TA TATUM TUM

In late summer the transition into fallat the blue-blazed trail south of the entrancetawny brown bracken fern

awakened by wet, cool weathermushrooms along the path fromspawn in thin humus and topsoil

an odd pitch pine tree slumped overa new trunk reaches upward, throws off thin brancheslike a hunchback, here is a place to sit and rest

CHORUS

into an open savanna of tall dead pines

burst out of shadeaftermath of a re

tiny, robust scrub oak acornstheir leaves with less insect foragethan the chinquapin oaks

frilly, yellow goldenrod owersoverhanging the pathI brush against them CONTACT!

CHORUS

a buzz of insects clamor about orets

of tiny golden owers, locust borer beetles

antennae dashing about, tasting

the beetle lifts its hard outer wingsies off bumbling and awkwardanother takes its place

I saunter along while examining my life..where Ive been, where I want to goall this beauty, large and small

CHORUS

Look! a praying mantis grasps a goldenrod ower

readjusts gangly hind legs ready to ambushit turns head left and right how odd

the sky high fractured cumulussunshine fadesthickening stratus in the west

twittering leavesaside a small poplar treegray ghostly family of adult trunks behind

CHORUS

A tiny, delicate wildowerpea-like purple ower- one of the tick trefoils

a glimpse into one pine barrens secret

a forest of gray birch in a catch basinsome bleached white branches on the groundlike the bones of a dead deer

wind music rushes through the pitch pines

a different sound for every type of pinenorway spruce, white pinerushing stream

CHORUS

two uprooted pitch pines block the trailperhaps a wind surgefrom tropical storm Irene

in a triangle intersectionyellow asters in blooma glorious sight

at the parking lot cars pull inlike insects coming to the goldenrods

dust lifts off blows eastwardCHORUS

poem by

Tom Stock, life member, NYSOEA

AWALKINTHEEDGEWOODPRESERVE


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by Tim Stanley

Dr. Steve Morreale opened a box to reveal the EasternRed-backed Salamander, the mascot of Arnot Forest,explaining that though seldom seen, this is the mostabundant andwidely distributedsalamander inthe state. Arnot,the teaching andresearch forest ofCornell University,is tucked awayin the hills of the

Finger LakesRegion just southof Ithaca, NY,and Dr. Morrealepresented one ofthe workshopsfor CornellCooperativeExtension'sMaster NaturalistProgram. Theprogram is ahigh-quality,science-basedtraining program designed to teach adults about New York'snatural resources, empower them to educate others, andencourage themto participate inon-the-groundconservationmanagementprojects. KristiSullivan, Directorof the MasterNaturalist Program,

facilitated theweekend gatheringthat was botheducational andinformative to the26 participantsrepresentingvarious walks oflife from around thestate.

The weekendwas full of surprises.

During the wetland ecology workshop, a mysteriousgelatinous mass, large and rubbery, was discovered in oneof the vernal pools in the forest. Gasps could be heard, as

if seeing a new lifeform from an alienplanet; the group wasmystied. Finally, itwas deduced (with thehelp of the internet)that the mass was aBryozoa, or "mossanimal", a colony of

aquatic invertebrateanimals that are lterfeeders.

Dr. HollyMenninger presenteda workshop on thethreat of invasivespecies, focusingespecially on theHydrilla discoveredthis summer inCayuga Lake. Oncecultured and soldas an aquarium

plant, this aggressive tropical species tends to overtakeany body of water that it occupies. It has completely

choked waterwaysin Florida and hasnow hitchhiked northon recreationalboats. Though itsrapid reproductionis alarming, earlydetection and animmediate response

may prevent itsspread in New York.

The weekendincluded additionalworkshops on treeidentication, forest

ecology, deer andbiodiversity, insects,and mushrooms andfungi. The wet andwarm Septemberdays made for a

LIFE-LONG LEARNING WITH

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perfect mushroom hunt as we scoured the forest withmushroom expert Bob Beyfess. There are so manyvarieties of fungi that new discoveries are still being made.He pointed out dozens of mushrooms, from edibles to thehighly poisonous Angel of Death. Of course, he stressedthe importance of proper identication (spore prints being

the only sure-re way to identify a mushroom), and told usthey must be cooked. For lunch, we enjoyed a taste of two

varieties.The Master Naturalist Program offers a valuable

resource to educators in every arena, from school teachersto environmental educators. The expertise was invaluable,but just as importantly, obtaining full Master Naturalistrecognition requires that volunteer hours be completedeach year. This continuing education component getseducators involved in citizen science programs -- NestWatch, the North American Amphibian Monitoring Programand Eel Monitoring are a few of the exciting opportunities.

Tim Stanley attended the Master Naturalist Program in2011. For more information regarding the Master NaturalistProgram, visit this website: http://www.cals.cornell.edu/

cals/dnr/cerp/mastnat.cfm or e-mail Kristi L. Sullivan[[email protected]]. The program has been traditionally

offered on a weekend in September.

John Garesch graduated with anenvironmental science degree from BatesCollege, and has gone on to use that degreeas an entrepreneur and consultant. Spending10 years in the Jackson Hole, WY area wherehe moved as a wilderness guide, he built up atechnology business which he sold to transitionto the non-prot sector as a fundraising

consultant. After he moved back to New Yorkin 2003 to raise his family he moved into thenancial consulting eld and currently works with

Raymond James Financial Services in Kingston,NY and consults for numerous non-prots

organizations and philanthropically inclined

individuals with a specialty in socially responsibleinvestments. John is also a director for theWoodstock Land Conservancy. John has twochildren, Briana and Sylvan, and lives with hiswife, Erin in historic uptown Kingston.

JOHN GARESCHEVice President of Administration

NEW BOARD MEMBER

LIFE-LONG LEARNING WITH THE CORNELL MASTER

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