The Station
is used by a variety of groups for educational, professional and
outreach activities. Educational and outreach activities include
K-12 school and scouting based programs, interagency meetings, visiting
classes from other universities and the regular field oriented summer
classes offered at the Station. Summer courses have been offered
at the station continuously since 1966. A wide variety of courses,
ranging from herpetology and ornithology to field mycology and aquatic/wetlands
plants, are offered during 2 four-week sessions each summer.
In addition,
as part of our outreach and recruitment program, station personnel
and faculty from the Department of Biological Sciences have been
involved in an annual conservation day for 400 to 500 5th and 6th
graders each spring. The Station has also hosted weekend conservation
workshops with high school students and scout groups. At these workshops,
individuals not only participated in conservation projects like
invasive woody species control, prairie seed collection, electro-fishing,
turtle trapping at the Station and a prescribed burning equipment
presentation, but also received instruction and mentoring, from
scientists and resource managers from various state and non-profit
natural resource agencies, concerning career options available in
the natural resource field.
