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Prescribed Fire at NCTC
No full textB-Roll footage from a prescribed fire at NCTC. Produced by the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) videographers. April 15, 2011
“The Power of One Voice” A Fifty Year Perspective on the Life of Rachel Carson
No full textConservationist in Action Series. NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, interviews Mark Dixon, Filmmaker, ""The Power of One Voice""; Linda Lear, Ph.D. Author, Rachel Carson Biographer; and Patricia DeMarco, Ph.D. Rachel Carson Scholar. March 5, 2015. The National Conservation Training Center invites prominent conservationists, writers, historians, scientists, filmmakers, and educators to discuss their work to a broad and interested public. In this program NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, hosts an interview with Mark Dixon, Filmmaker, ""The Power of One Voice""; Linda Lear, Ph.D. Author, Rachel Carson Biographer; and Patricia DeMarco, Ph.D. Rachel Carson Scholar
From Billions to None: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
No full textConservationist in Action Series. NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, interviews with David Blockstein, Ph.D. Scientist, National Council for Science & the Environment; David Mrazek, Filmmaker; Joel Greenberg, Author. March 11, 2015. The National Conservation Training Center invites prominent conservationists, writers, historians, scientists, filmmakers, and educators to discuss their work to a broad and interested public. In this program NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, hosts an interview with David Blockstein, Ph.D. Scientist, National Council for Science & the Environment; David Mrazek, Filmmaker “From Billions to None”; Joel Greenberg, Author “A Feathered River Across the Sky
Where the Wild Things Were
No full textWhere the Wild Things Were: Life, Death and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators. An interview with Will Stolzenburg, author and wildlife journalist, as part of the Conservationist in Action Series. Hosted by Dr. Mark Madison.Will Stolzenburg is interviewed by Dr. Mark Madison, NCTC Historian, during a 2008 installment of the Conservationist in Action Series at NCTC. Will discusses his new book, "Where the Wild Things Were". He draws on more than 20 ywears as a journalist covering Conservation Biology and extinctions. He is the former Science Editor of the Nature Conservancy magazine. His new book presents the consequences of the loss of large predators on the landscape
Bringing Back the Fish of the Chesapeake Bay
No full textPart of the "Conservationist in Action" Series featuring Sandy Burk, a marine biologist, educator, and author. Hosted by Dr. MarK Madison, Historian at NCTC. Aired in 2007. Sandy Burk, biologist, educator and author discusses how students, parents and the community worked together to bring back the American Shad to the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. Students from Montgomery County, Maryland conducted stream surveys for macroinvertebrates as a measure of stream health/water quality and then helped release young shad into the streams
NCTC Scores Bull's-Eye with Pilot Archery Course
No full text18 Federal, state employees are now certified to teach archery at their field stations across the country.Eighteen Federal, state employees are now certified to teach archery at their field stations across the country. - - Unlike Longfellow's arrow (which fell to earth he knew not where) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is successfully taking aim specifically at bowhunting as a means of getting more people into active outdoor recreation. - - Last week, the National Conservation Training Center's gymnasium was converted into a makeshift archery range as eighteen budding nimrods from across the country burnished their bowhunting skills in a first-ever pilot course on archery as a public outreach tool. The class drew participants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Missouri Department of Conservation, and a National Wildlife Refuge System volunteer program. - - In partnership with the Archery Trade Association and USA Archery, the governing body for the Olympic Archery Committee, NCTC launched the 2-day training session to acquaint students, many of them who staff national wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, with the basics of archery and its equipment and how to set up safe archery training ranges at their work sites. Five instructors from the two associations and a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, archery shop acquainted students with gear, shooting techniques, safety precautions, and range construction in an intense 2 days of practice. - - The goal, according to course leader Werner Barz of NCTC's Division of Education Outreach, is to capitalize on the growing popularity of archery and to use bowhunting as a means of acquainting visitors, especially young people, with larger concepts of conservation, wildlife, and hunting as a management tool. Not simply a sport hunting program, 22 nature-based activities are woven into the archery curriculum, broadening the appeal of a pastime that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has made a priority tool for its public outreach programs. - - "I'm really excited to see this new emphasis on introducing our community to the sport of archery and, by extension, bowhunting and bowfishing," says class participant Sallie Gentry of the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge complex in Corvallis, Oregon. "I can easily make the connection from archery to hunting, sportsmanship, ethics, wildlife observation, conservation and management, wildlife behavior, and natural history. Appealing to boys and girls of virtually any ability level or background, this is another great program I can put in my repertoire to get people outside and connected to nature." - - The course is expected to be offered again in spring 2012 and possibly expanded to a 3-day program. - -
Conservation Connect
No full textEnvironmental Education Update Series. Chelsea McKinney, Kathy Sholl, Brett Billings and Randy Robinson, NCTC will provide an overview of Conservation Connect, the new web-based video series produced by NCTC. October 21, 2014
Snows of the Nile: Uganda’s Equatorial Glaciers and Climate Change
No full textConservation in Action Series. NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, hosts an interview with Scientist & Filmmaker Nate Dappen, Ph.D. March 5, 2015. The National Conservation Training Center invites prominent conservationists, writers, historians, scientists, filmmakers, and educators to discuss their work to a broad and interested public. In this program NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, hosts an interview with Scientist & Filmmaker Nate Dappen, Ph.D
Hand on the Land
No full textEnvironmental Education Update. Host: Michelle Donlan, NCTC. Presenters: Josh Falk, Education Program Officer, NEEF and Maria Arnold, USFWS Youth Program Specialist, NCTC. March 4, 2015. Our webcast will feature “Hands on the Land” (HOL), a network of 120 distinct partnerships between five Federal land management agency sites and local schools focused on promoting educational excellence. HOL provides students across America with hands-on learning in natural and cultural settings, and is coordinated by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF). USFWS currently counts 13 site-school partnerships among the total. Presenters include Josh Falk, Education Program Officer, NEEF and Maria Arnold, USFWS Youth Program Specialist, NCTC. Host: Michelle Donlan, NCTC
Mapping the Blue: The World’s Largest Marine Park
No full textConservationists in Action Series. NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, hosts an interview with Alison Barrat, Filmmaker, Living Oceans Foundation and Sam Purkis, Ph.D. Oceanographer, National Coral Reef Institute. March 11, 2015. The National Conservation Training Center invites prominent conservationists, writers, historians, scientists, filmmakers, and educators to discuss their work to a broad and interested public. In this program NCTC Historian, Dr. Mark Madison, hosts an interview with Alison Barrat, Filmmaker, Living Oceans Foundation and Sam Purkis, Ph.D. Oceanographer, National Coral Reef Institute
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