USFWS
Fisheries & Ecological Services
Alaska Region   

 

Fairbanks Fish & Wildlife Field Office
Outreach & Education

Outreach Programs

Teachers participate in a workshop to learn about local wetlands.  Photo Credit:  Heather Johnson/USFWS
Teachers participate in a workshop to learn about local wetlands.
Photo Credit: Heather Johnson/USFWS

Teachers and Tribal educators participate in workshops to learn more about the activities and education materials developed by this office.

A student attending a science camp weighs a juvenile salmon.  Photo Credit:  Laurel Devany/USFWS
A student attending a science camp weighs a juvenile salmon.
Photo Credit: Laurel Devany/USFWS

Students attending science camps learn about their natural resources first-hand and gain career experience by working with biologists.

Students sample eelgrass in Izembek Lagoon as part of the Eider Journey science camp. Photo Credit: Neesha Stellrecht/USFWS
Students sample eelgrass in Izembek Lagoon as part of the Eider Journey science camp. Photo Credit: Neesha Stellrecht/USFWS

Eider Journey Science Program is a comprehensive education and stewardship program focusing on the conservation and management of the Steller’s and spectacled eider and their nesting habitats.  Students participate in spectacled eider ground-nest surveys on the Yukon Delta NWR and Steller’s eider breeding pair surveys in Barrow.

Sixth grade students learn about Alaska's boreal forests while participating in Fairbanks Outdoor Days.  Photo Credit: Renee Melegari/USFWS
Sixth grade students learn about Alaska's boreal forests while participating in Fairbanks Outdoor Days.
Photo Credit: Renee Melegari/USFWS

Outdoor Days is an annual four-day multi-agency event that reaches nearly 1000 Fairbanks-area sixth grade students each year.

 

 

Last updated: March 23, 2010