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Win
a free trip to the Yosemite Winter Literary Conference
Are
you creative? Are you inspired by natural beauty? Would
you like to spend time with others that share these interests?
If
you answered yes to any of these questions, then, the 2001
Yosemite Winter Literary Conference is for you!
The
Yosemite Association in conjunction with the Central and
Southern Sierra Wilderness Education Project is giving one
lucky high school student and their teacher/chaperone scholarships
to attend the exclusive Yosemite
Winter Literary Conference.
Interested
students are encouraged to submit a creative piece consisting
of no more than 247 words, expressing the relevance of the
Sierra Nevadas to the people of California. The piece need
not consist of purely written material. Please be sure to
express your goals for this conference if selected.
Winners
will be chosen by a panel of judges of the Yosemite community
on the basis of creativity, enthusiasm, and qualification
determined by their entries.
All
entries must be submitted via the WildLink Website. If you
have a completed entry, please submit
it here.
***Deadline
for receipt of all entries: January 31, 2001.
Message
from Perrine: WildLink Expedition III
HELLO
-- We just completed WildLink
Expedition III! We had a total of 10 student participants
from Reseda and Tokay High Schools. As usual, I learned
a great deal from the students, Nicole (our Yosemite Institute
WildLink Instructor), and the chaperones (Jarod and Vicki).
On their first full day in Yosemite, a Miwok Interpretative
Ranger, Phil
Johnson, spoke with us about Miwok culture and traditions.
Later that day, we saw "Big Red", the 2,700 year
old Giant Sequoia in Tuolumne Grove. We spent the next three
days backpacking in Sierra National Forest at Hite's Cove.
I think it's fair to say that a good time was had by all.
We were able to collect some hydrology data in two locations
on the South
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Fork of the Merced River, using a few GLOBE hydrology protocols.
To view our data, please visit the GLOBE
website. We also completed an Archaeological monitoring
project for the Forest Service while staying at Hite's Cove.
If
you have any questions about this program, please feel free
to contact me.
Active
Discussion Boards Available
We
here at WildLink are pleased to announce a new feature to
the WildLink website. We have established online discussion
boards in the campfire section of the website, for students
and the general public. As of now, both campfire chats are
secure and require registration. Please register yourself
for the campfire
and start chatting with your peers!
WildLink
Curriculum is Online
Teachers
and students,
please take a look at the WildLink curriculum in the Activity
Zone section of our site. We currently have nine
WildLink Lessons online. These lessons cover air quality,
fire ecology, habitat assessments, human uses of the wilderness,
nature journalling, wilderness perceptions, wilderness advertising,
and reading topographic maps. Please feel free to give us
feedback
as we are always looking for ways to improve our program.
Obata
Exhibit showing at deYoung Museum for final month
One
hundred works of Japanese watercolorist, Chiura
Obata, are now being exhibited
at San Francisco's deYoung Museum. Obata's love for natural
beauty is depicted in these striking works. Obata spent
a great deal of time in Yosemite before World War II, capturing
the seemingly uncapturable in each of his brush strokes.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he and his family were
relocated to a Japanese internment
camp in Topaz,
Utah. There, he continued to
paint and to teach, however, his works took on a new dimension....
The
exhibit will be running until December 31, 2000 at the deYoung
museum located in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California.
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