Denali Alaska : Denali Foundation : Wilderness Education, Elder ...
The Denali On the Road program has undergone some profound changes in the past two years as we
have expanded the program to incorporate traditional Native knowledge. We have gotten off the
road system and into some very small airplanes to bring the program to rural Alaskan villages.
One of the biggest challenges of the program is to develop a system of Native Elder contacts
within the rural communities and encourage them to share their knowledge.
Contact information and email: info@denali.org, Denali Foundation, PO Box 212, Denali Park, AK 99755, (907) 683-2597. www.denali.org/docdisplay.cfm
Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
Nonprofit environmental education organization in Homer, Alaska. Conducts education and research programs on marine and coastal ecosystems of Kachemak Bay.
Contact information and email: kbrr@fishgame.state.ak.us, Kachemak Bay Research Reserve, 2181 Kachemak Drive, Homer, AK 99603, (907) 235-6377. www.kbayrr.org
Alaska SeaLife Center - Education
The Alaska SeaLife Center is a non-profit marine science facility dedicated to understanding and maintaining the integrity of the marine ecosystem of Alaska through research, rehabilitation and public education www.alaskasealife.org Alaska SeaLife Center ...
Contact information: Tylan Schrock, Executive Director, Alaska SeaLife Center, 301 Railway Avenue, PO Box 1329, Seward, AK 99664, (907) 224-6300. www.alaskasealife.org/
State of Alaska Education Resources:[top] BLM-Alaska Educational Programs and Resources
Majestic and remote, Alaska's 90 million acres of public lands include frozen deserts, mountain ranges, and even lush rain forests. Educational programs along the highways and at Anchorage's Campbell Tract, one of the most
visited recreation areas in Alaska, help visitors understand the vastness and important land management issues in the state.
Contact information and email: Jeff Brune, jeff_brune@ak.blm.gov, BLM State Office, Campbell Creek Science Center, Anchorage Field Office, 6881 Abbott Loop Road, Anchorage, AK 99507, (907) 267-1247. www.blm.gov/education/LearningLandscapes/menu/states/alaska.html
Alaska Correlations
Alaska Department of Education; Council for Environmental Education (CEE); Environmental Education & Training Partnership (EETAP); We realize that a common concern among educators is how to fit another
element into an already full day. Alaska Correlations will make your job easier by providing a tool to identify activities in each of our three programs that will help you meet state educational standards.
Contact information: ADF&G Headquarters, PO Box 25526, Juneau, AK 99802, (907) 465-4100. www.hunt.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=education.ascs
Project WILD--Alaska
In 1999, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was awarded an Environmental Education and Training Partnership Grant. Is a K-12 conservation education program focusing on wildlife, fostering responsible action toward natural resources. Project WILD and Project WILD Aquatic
are national award-winning conservation and environmental education programs emphasizing wildlife, designed for educators of kindergarten through twelfth grade, and sponsored by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Contact information: ADF&G Headquarters, PO Box 25526, Juneau, AK 99802, (907) 465-4190. www.hunt.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=education.pw_home
Environmental Education Resources:[top] Environmental Education
Everything on EnviroEducation.com has been researched, written and designed for those
who are pursuing an environmental career. We've got a growing list of more than 1,600
environmental department and program listings and more than 600 links to help you with
everything from searching for and applying to environmental programs to finding and
winning environmental scholarships. Then, we go beyond the academic, providing a clearinghouse
for finding environmental jobs at top companies, government agencies and the conservation
sector and training to receive environmental certificates and licenses.
Contact information and email: info@enviroeducation.com, EnviroEducation.com, PO Box 101293, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, (412) 486-4017. www.enviroeducation.com
EPA - Environmental Education
US Environmental Protection Agency's EPA) Office of Environmental Education Web Site. ...
Describes US government programs, including grant opportunities, in environmental education..
The mission is to advance and support education efforts that develop an environmentally
conscious and responsible public. The goal is to ensure that environmental education (EE)
is a recognized and appropriately utilized tool for protecting human health and the environment.
Contact information: EPA - Environmental Education, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20460, (202) 564-1490. www.epa.gov/enviroed/
National Wildlife Federation Homepage
Explore NWF's educational pathways to understanding, appreciating and safeguarding the natural
world. The NWF website has both school and community programs. School programs include Schoolyards
Habitat Program, Campus Ecology Program, National Wildlife Week and Educator Resources.
Contact information: National Wildlife Federation, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, VA 20190-5362, 1-(800) 822-9919. www.nwf.org/education
USDA Forest Service Alaska Region
Tools, information and resources to help teachers and others involved with conservation education. More information is also available on the Forest Service "Just For Kids" page.
Contact information: USDA Forest Service - Alaska Region, PO Box 21628, Juneau, AK 99801-1807, (907) 586-8806. www.fs.fed.us/r10/ro/educators/
North American Association for Environmental Education
The North American Association for Environmental Education - promoting a healthy, sustainable environment through education. NAAEE provides support for environmental education and educators through a variety of programs and activities by a network of professionals, students, and volunteers working in the field of environmental education throughout North America and in over 55 countries around the world.
Contact information and email: North American Association of Environmental Education, email@naaee.org, 2000 P St NW, Suite 540, Washington, DC, 20036, (202) 419-0412 http://www.naaee.org
Native American Lands Curriculum
The center for Indian community development at Humboldt state university produced this 52-lesson
curriculum for grades 1 through 12 under a grant from EPA. Tribal leaders, educators, and the
public identified the goals of the project. The curriculum adapts elements from other waste
management instructional materials, but adds several original activities specifically to meet
the needs of rural Native American children. It is designed to be empowering and emphasizes cultural themes.
Contact information: US EPA - Office of Solid Waste (5305W), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460. www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/tribal/educout.htm
Alaska Native Resources:[top] Elders And Cultural Camps As Educational Resources:
Elders And Subsistence Camps are an important part of native life throughout Alaska. One of
the strategies is proving most successful in connecting the school curriculum to students
lives in culturally and educationally meaningful ways is through the involvement of native
elders as teachers and the real-world setting of a subsistence camp environment as the classroom. www.ankn.uaf.edu/elders.html
Alaska Standards for Culturally Responsive Schools
Alaska Native Knowledge Network offers culturally responsive education that provides guidelines and uses local knowledge and focuses on contemporary life in Native communities. Cultural standards for schools, communities, students, and educators.
Contact information: Alaska Native Knowledge Network, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, PO Box 756730, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, (907) 474-5897. www.ankn.uaf.edu
Observing Locally, Connecting Globally
The Observing Locally, Connecting Globally (OLCG) Project is funded by the National Science Foundation through a grant to the University Of Alaska Fairbanks entitled
"global change education using western science and native observations." The overall goal of our three-year program is to provide Alaskan teachers and students opportunities
to engage in original global change research and to promote global change education in Alaska. These research studies address the need for locally relevant, inquiry-oriented
science education appropriate for the diverse multi-graded and multicultural teaching situations in Alaska.
Contact information and email: Elena Sparrow, Principal Investigator, ffebs@uaf.edu, Observing Locally, Connecting Globally, PO Box 756480, Fairbanks, AK 99775, (907) 474-7699. www.uaf.edu/olcg
Alaskan Native Resources
Alaskan Native Resources is a comprehensive online resource designed specifically for Alaska Natives. On this site can be found virtually any Environmental and Natural Resources
information available to Alaska Natives.
Contact information and email: Adam Martin, Director, director@alaskanaativeresources.com, Alaska Native Resources, PO Box 76009, Tanacross, AK 99776-6009, (907)883-5024. www.alaskanativeresources.com
Alaska Native Knowledge Network
Alaska Native Knowledge Network is designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.
It has been established to assist Native people, government agencies, educators and the general public in gaining access to the knowledge base that Alaska Natives have
acquired through cumulative experience over millennia.
Contact information: Alaska Native Knowledge Network, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, PO Box 756730, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, (907) 474-5897. www.ankn.uaf.edu/index.html
To advance and support education efforts that develop an environmentally conscious and
responsible public. To ensure that environmental education (EE) is a recognized and appropriately
utilized tool for protecting human health and the environment to develop model curricula in
Alaska Native studies and languages that are available on the Internet;
to develop a model process for curriculum development that can be replicated in predominantly
Native schools throughout Alaska; and
to develop a model of professional education for both practicing and preservice teachers
centered on curriculum development in Alaska Native studies and languages.
Alaskool Central - Contact information: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska - Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, (907) 786-7710. www.alaskool.org/
Alaska Native Science Commission
Alaska Native Knowledge Network is designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.
It has been established to assist Native people, government agencies, educators and the general public in gaining access to the knowledge base that Alaska Natives have
acquired through cumulative experience over millennia.
Contact information and email: Patricia Cochran, Executive Director, pcochran@aknsc.org, Alaska Native Science Commission, 429 L Street, Anchorage, AK 99501, (907) 786-7710. nativescience.org/
Code of Research Ethics/Protocols
Ethical guidelines for the Use of Traditional Knowledge in Research and Science provided by the Alaska Native Science Commission.
Contact information and email: Patricia Cochran, Executive Director, pcochran@aknsc.org, Alaska Native Science Commission, 429 L Street, Anchorage, AK 99501, (907) 786-7710. http://www.nativescience.org
SeaWorld/Busch Gardens - ANIMALS
Based on a long-term commitment to education, SEaWorld, Busch Gardens, and Discovery Cove strive to provide an enthusiastic, imaginative, and intellectually stimulating atmosphere to help students
and guests develop a lifelong appreciation, understanding, and stewardship for our environment. Specifically the goals are... www.seaworld.org/animal-info/index.htm
Kid Territory
... Ecology: The study of animals, plants and their environment (the world around them)... Environment: Everything that surrounds an animal or other living thing... www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/glossary_e-f.html
Water Quality Education Resources:[top] Alaska Watershed Stewardship
The Master Watershed Steward Program is an ADEC, EPA funded program conducted by the University of Alaska Cooperative Extension in which volunteers attend a 30-hour watershed education program.
The program includes such topics as basic hydrology, wetlands ecology, aquatic insect identification, and information on the Clean Water Act.
Contact information and email: Barbara Wild, fywater@uaf.edu, Master Watershed Steward Program, Alaska Cooperative Extension, 2221 E. Northern Lights Blvd. #118, Anchorage, AK 99508, (907) 786-6307. www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/landresources/watershed/wer.html
EPA Tribal Air Program
The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Region 10 Tribal Operations Office is
to assist the Region in its commitment to work with the federally recognized Tribes of the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska, on a government-to-government basis, to protect, restore and preserve the
environment for present and future generations.
Contact information and email: Jeff Philip, Philip.jeff@epa.gov, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. EPA, Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98101, (206) 553-6706. http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/AIRPAGE.NSF
US Fish and Wildlife Service
The US Fish and Wildlife service is fundamentally a fish and wildlife oriented, biologically based
organization, committed to the conservation of the natural resources placed in its trust.
The US Fish and Wildlife service is part of a greater conservation community that includes
other federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, private citizens and
responsible industries. The Service has distinct responsibilities within that community,
but emphasizes that conservation is a collective job.
Contact information: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Alaska, 1011 East Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK 99503, (907) 786-3309. http://alaska.fws.gov/
USDA Forest Service Alaska Region
There is information on current weather conditions, employment, passes and permits, projects and plans recreation and activities (wildfire watching)
Contact information: USDA Forest Service - Alaska Region, PO Box 21628, Juneau, AK 99802-1628, (907) 586-8806. www.fs.fed.us/r10/
USDA Forest Service Tongass National Forest
As the Forest Service enters its second century, we are advancing a broad-based agenda to focus special attention on four key emphasis areas:
Watershed Health and Restoration
Sustainable Forest Management
National Forest Road System
Recreation
There is also information on Forest Management, Glaciers, recreation, GIS metadata, visitor information and more.
Contact information: USDA Forest Service - Tongass National Forest, PO Box 21628, Juneau, AK 99802-1628, (907) 586-8806. www.fs.fed.us/r10/
Bureau of Land Management Alaska
BLM-Alaska manages public lands, conveys land, provides interagency wildland fire management, helps provide oversight responsibility of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and responds to public
demand for use of public land.
Contact information: BLM - Alaska State Office, 222 W. 7th Avenue # 13, Anchorage, AK 99513, (907) 271-5960. www.ak.blm.gov/
BLM Alaska Fire Service
The Alaska Fire Service provides wildland fire management on an interagency basis for land managed or owned by U.S. Interior Department Agencies, Alaska Native Corporations and the Military in Alaska.
Contact information: BLM - Alaska Fire Service, PO Box 35005, Ft. Wainwright, AK 99703, (907) 356-5500. http://fire.ak.blm.gov/ For more information, please contact:
Mansel Nelson
928-523-1275 Mansel.Nelson@nau.edu
