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Sharing Wondrous Stories Of This Place: A Garrison School Website For The Wider Community, Jill Corson Lake May 2016

Sharing Wondrous Stories Of This Place: A Garrison School Website For The Wider Community, Jill Corson Lake

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This thesis project, composed of a product and a paper, addresses the 185-acre Garrison School Forest owned by the Garrison School, a public K-8 school in Garrison, New York. The Hudson Highlands Land Trust (HHLT) proposes to purchase conservation rights from the school district to preserve the school forest in perpetuity. The HHLT proposal includes a gift of 100 acres of adjacent land that affords easier, safer access to the school forest. The thesis product is www.gufsee.org, a 52-page environmental education website created to provide teachers with resources to help them teach in the school forest on Forest Fridays. …