Introduction

Hello everyone, I would like to introduce the National Museum of Forest Service's Conservation Education Working group blog. The purpose of this blog is to bring together a group of voices from varying backgrounds with differing ideas and needs from a Conservation Education program in order to begin to develop a truly useful and comprehensive program that can become a valuable tool for all levels of education.

This is how it would work:

All members of the team would be given electronic permission to create new postings on this site in order to develop new ideas and suggestions. This will require all team members to take a few minutes and create a Google account.

For those of you that have not used this kind of tool, let me assure you that is extremely easy to use, and it can prove to be a tremendous tool for collaboration with a little effort.

Also, both team members, and non-team members would be able to post comments about items that are being posted.

Finally, this blog could also be a place to collect any electronic resources that we think might be helpful in developing an end product. (websites, pictures, ect.)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Profile/Introduction

I'm a 68-year old retired English teacher and children's summer camp owner/director living in Windham, Vermont, living with my wife on 100 acres of forest, fields, ledge, and swamp. We're getting ready to harvest about 90,000 board feet of northern white pine, a project which makes us somewhat nervous because we're mighty inexperienced with logging. I have a part-time day job driving our town's school bus, and we both sing in a community chorus in Brattleboro, 45 minutes away. We have a son (Boulder, CO) and twin daughters (Martha's Vineyard, MA, and Santa Rosa, CA) as well as five grandchildren.

I'm a Vietnam vet discharged in 1969 from the Navy as a LT(jg). Since then I've been in education in one form or another: community college teaching in California (Bay Area, Lake Tahoe, Mt. Shasta) as well as Humboldt State; school administration and fund raising in New Hampshire and Vermont; and eight years teaching abroad in Turkey, South Korea, Japan, and Oman. For eleven years during the '70s, my wife and I owned and directed Plantation Camp which educated 180 children on 500 acres in northern California for nine weeks each summer.

We both have a special interest in this project because we've known Matt Bacon since birth: he's my wife's nephew.
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2 comments:

  1. Matt BaconOctober 8, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    Thanks Dave for the quick post.

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  2. David CrittendenOctober 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM

    OK, just getting the hang of technology in our dial-up world here in the sticks of Vermont; I hope for the best, thanks to you, Matt. Dial up is a challenge for us, and Vermont is still struggling.

    In all events, out eyes are open and we plan to respond soon to Matt's good ideas.

    Best to all,

    David Crittenden
    Windham, Vermont

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