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2008 Calendar
March

3

Yokhol Ranch Scoping Meeting

Where: 3pm Exeter Senior Center (Carnegie Hall) E Street and East Chestnut Street, Exeter, California.

March

4

 California Statewide Litter Clean-Up, Enforcement, and Beautification Day
March

12

 Storytelling with Mechi Garza

MAIZ de Bakersfield College, Wild Places, and The Dolores Huerta Foundation present storyteller and Native American medicine woman Mechi Garza at Bakersfield College on the evening of March 12th. Ms. Garza will lead a discussion on and present knowledge of how storytelling is a tool for encouraging peace and social and environmental justice.

Contact Carlos Gomez for more information - 661.427.1135

March

22-30

 Wilderness First Responder Training in Los Angeles

Ian will be in LA for a week of intensive wilderness medical training.
March

31

 Cesar Chaves Day

Cesar was in Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s words, "one of the heroic figures of our time." He led the historic non-violent movement for farm worker rights and dedicated himself to building a movement of poor working people that extended beyond the fields and into cities and towns across the nation.

He inspired farm workers and millions of people who never worked on a farm to commit them selves to social, economic and civil rights activism. Cesar’s legacy, like the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., continues to educate, inspire and empower people from all walks of life. He is a role model for all Americans and for generations to come.

April

13-19

National Environmental Education Week Increases the educational impact of Earth Day by creating a full week of educational preparation, learning, and activities in K-12 classrooms, nature centers, zoos, museums, and aquariums.

April

19

Native Plant Garden Tour

The public is invited to take a self-paced tour of several gardens featuring California native plants in the Springville and Porterville area on Saturday, April 19, 2008. Tour hours will be from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.

For more information contact Peyton Ellas at (559) 202-8351
April

19

 Visalia Earth Day Festival
April

22

 Earth day
April

25

 Arbor Day - plant a tree (every day)!
April

25-27

 AEOE Statewide Spring Conference - Camp Hess Kramer in Malibu

Join the Association of Environmental and Outdoor Educators for their spring conference and get connected with educators from around the state and learn a wealth of new and helpful information.

May

5

 Cinco de Mayo
May

31- June 7

American Rivers National Rivers Cleanup Week
June

1

 Río Limpio: Tule River Outreach and Cleanup is a watershed-wide community effort to keep the Tule River safe, clean and open for all to use. Volunteers clear garbage and remove graffiti from the river while reaching out to and educating river users on the importance of good stewardship practices. WildPlaces has recently partnered with the U.S. Forest Service, Visalia's CSET and others to gather resources for a long term watershed wide management program.
June

6-9

 Immersed in the Wild with Walt Whitman High School

Immersed in the Wild are single and multi-day outdoor trips that engage youth of diverse ages, backgrounds and locations throughout CA in active stewardship of the land.
July

5

 Río Limpio: Tule River Outreach and Cleanup is a watershed-wide community effort to keep the Tule River safe, clean and open for all to use. Volunteers clear garbage and remove graffiti from the river while reaching out to and educating river users on the importance of good stewardship practices. WildPlaces has recently partnered with the U.S. Forest Service, Visalia's CSET and others to gather resources for a long term watershed wide management program.
July

21-23

 Immersed in the Wild Native Youth River Days with Owens Valley Career Development Center.

Immersed in the Wild are single and multi-day outdoor trips that engage youth of diverse ages, backgrounds and locations throughout CA in active stewardship of the land.
August

11-13

Immersed in the Wild Native Youth River Days with Owens Valley Career Development Center.

Immersed in the Wild are single and multi-day outdoor trips that engage youth of diverse ages, backgrounds and locations throughout CA in active stewardship of the land.
August

23

 Río Limpio: Tule River Outreach and Cleanup is a watershed-wide community effort to keep the Tule River safe, clean and open for all to use. Volunteers clear garbage and remove graffiti from the river while reaching out to and educating river users on the importance of good stewardship practices. WildPlaces has recently partnered with the U.S. Forest Service, Visalia's CSET and others to gather resources for a long term watershed wide management program.
September

27

 Río Limpio: Tule River Outreach and Cleanup is a watershed-wide community effort to keep the Tule River safe, clean and open for all to use. Volunteers clear garbage and remove graffiti from the river while reaching out to and educating river users on the importance of good stewardship practices. WildPlaces has recently partnered with the U.S. Forest Service, Visalia's CSET and others to gather resources for a long term watershed wide management program.
September

27
National Public Lands Day