Conservation

The outdoor classroom beckons

As we were walking through a patch of young forest on a deer trail filled with periodic spasms of multiflora rose sticker bushes and biting June flies, the "at risk" teen students from Kent County High School voiced their displeasure with screams and groans of "You can't do this to us," and "This is boring!" Still we, the teacher and myself, continued walking, issuing words of encouragement and adding things like, "This is what it may have been like before the first humans walked this land when there were still mastodons and caribou and bears long before the Chesapeake Bay was formed," and "You're walking a trail like the ones the first...

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