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Young Environmental Collaboratives
Young Environmental Collaboratives promotes collaboration, wellness, and inquiry around mindful outdoor activities, including nature guiding and engagement, biological and conservation monitoring, and environmental education.
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Guiding Nature Expeditions to help one connect with the outdoors has been a passion of mine for more almost 25 years, and so please join me on a professionally guided adventure exploring bogs, forests, warblers, finches, orchids, and more.
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Let me know if you need a survey done for overall avian biodiversity, or for bird or orchid habitat assessment, or species-specific state and federally listed endangered and threatened species.
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If you have a conservation concern, I’ll give you a professional, mindful assessment. I have almost 25 years experience in the field of conservation from forests, to birds, to orchids, to wetlands and more.
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Education: Workshops, Talks, Classes, and More
I have been an outdoor educator my whole life, my mom as my first student when I was 4 years old…or so that’s how she tells the story. I’ve taught classes at SUNY-Cortland and still teach today at Cornell University. If you want to learn more about forests, finches, warblers, wetlands, orchids or the health benefits of nature, please let me know, I can offer a number of talks, presentations, guided tours (see Mindful Nature Expeditions above), workshops, classes and more.
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