Share your passion for the outdoors with the next generation of environmental leaders

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Angelica Kahler
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RCD Environmental Educator, Carole Hill, leading the Beach Ecology Station at Malibu Lagoon

If you have a passion for the outdoors and you want to share your passion with future generations, consider attending the Resource Conservation District’s Fall 2019 Environmental Educator Training. The program begins September 3rd and will continue weekly through October 22nd. Training topics and guest speakers include:

·         9/3 – Program Orientation and Overview  

·         9/10 – Watershed and Chaparral Overview  (Richard Halsey – California Chaparral Institute) 

·         9/17 – Native Connections to Land and Water  (Pamela Villaseñor, Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians) 

·         9/24 – Identifying Birds and Their Adaptations  (Art Langton/Muriel Kotin, SFV Audubon) 

·         10/1 – Identifying Plants and Understanding Their Stories (Kat High, Hupa Tribe Elder) 

·         10/8 – Malibu Creek Watershed Bus Tour  (Las Virgenes Municipal Water District) 

·         10/15 – The Impact of Climate Change/Beach Ecology  (Kurt Holland, Environmental Literacy Advocate) 

·         10/22 – Why Fish Need Trees  (Rosi Dagit, RCDSMM Senior Biologist)

Since 1983, the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains has been offering environmental education programs at Malibu Lagoon. Each year RCD environmental educators help connect thousands of students to this essential wetland and inspire them to appreciate and care for our land and water. In the years since Malibu Lagoon’s groundbreaking restoration, the RCD has been working to develop an innovative community-based science program in which students will receive firsthand experience in collecting and reporting water quality data to inform local environmental agencies. If you love working with kids and want to become a part of creating inventive solutions to current environmental issues join the RCD team and inspire the next generation of environmental leaders and scientists!  

If you’re interested in our training or in becoming an environmental educator with the RCD contact our Education Coordinator at  rcdsmm.edu@gmail.com or visit the RCD’s website https://www.rcdsmm.org/education/environmental-educator-training-for-adults/!