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November is Wilderness Watersheds Month

Our highlight curriculum for this month is Wilderness Watersheds! Explore the Watersheds whose sources lie in the Sierra Nevadas. We have added both a GLOBE topographic map and a GLOBE watershed map to the site for your convenience. You can also refer to the Habitat Sweet Habitat curriculum in the Activity Zone for discussion about riparian habitats. Your watershed serves as not only a water resource, but as a geographical, cultural, and historical resource. How many people share this water system? Who has used it before and how did they use it? How did their use differ from yours?

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 for students and the general public. As of now, both boards are secure and require registration and message approval. Please register yourself for the discussion board 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 eight WildLink Lessons online. These lessons cover air quality, fire ecology, habitat assessments, 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.

Message from Perrine

HELLO -- I am now preparing for WildLink Team 3 and am eagerly anticipating their arrival! They will be visiting the Sierras from December 1-6, 2000. Participants will consist of students from Livingston, Reseda, and Tokay High Schools.

If you have any questions about this program, please feel free to contact me.

Buffalo Soldiers website complete

Our first interactive web-based diversity curriculum site is ready for use in classrooms! This site, the Buffalo Soldiers Project, discusses the role of African-American soldiers in Yosemite at the turn of last century. It is narrated by an African-American Yosemite Park Ranger, Shelton Johnson. It is the first of its kind in our "Shadows in the Range of Light" series.

Obata Exhibit at deYoung Museum

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.