Wildlife Management
Education and Outdoor Skills Trainings
Texas’ rapid urban expansion
presents unique communication challenges for TWA, which seeks to
educate both private landowners and urban residents about the
positive aspects of responsible, active habitat management. To
reach these diverse audiences, TWA hosts or partners in
opportunities for interaction and education at wildlife
management “Field Days”, training workshops, and natural
resource symposia. Such events allow land owners, land
managers, educators, and natural resource professionals to
exchange information and gather resources applicable to wildlife
management on private lands. TWA also strives to educate the
public through participation in special events such as the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department’s annual “Expo”, the Conference
for the Association of Science Teachers, “Becoming an Outdoors
Woman” and “Women in the Outdoors” Workshops as well as through
numerous other meetings, conventions, and trade shows.
Conservation Initiatives
TWA partners with other
agencies, land managers, and organizations to provide support,
coordination, and outreach related to various conservation
projects and plans including Texas water resource issues, The
Texas Quail Initiative, Best Management Practices for Wildlife
Management, and the Future of Hunting Initiative.
For more information
about TWA’s Conservation Initiatives
contact Tamara Trail at 800-839-9453 or
ttrail@twa-mail.org
Youth Conservation Education
and Educator Trainings
Texas Wildlife Association believes that today's children are
tomorrow's decision makers and have thus made it our mission to
create an awareness of wildlife and wildlife related issues
among Texas youth. "Classroom
conservation" presentations, trainings,
learning modules, and interactive
video conferencing programs are readily available to area students and
teachers as part of our:
Learning Across New Dimensions in
Science (L.A.N.D.S.) youth stewardship initiative. TWA strives
to implement new and innovative programs that enable educators
to meet their goals while fostering a consciousness of the
natural world.
TWA
is
an accredited site provider for the Texas State Board for
Educator Certification and we are currently working to develop
innovative conservation-based professional development trainings
for the 2007-2008 school year. Additionally, our education staff
is certified to train teachers in the use of Project Wild,
Project Aquatic Wild, and Food, Land, & People classroom
curricula.
For a
pictorial summary of the 2005-2006 LANDS Program, please visit:
http://www.esc11.net/edtech/gerri/twa/
For more information
about TWA’s youth conservation education programs and/or
educator trainings, contact 800-839-9453
Texas Brigades Wildlife
Leadership Camps
Texas Brigades are high-energy
“boot camps” on quail, deer, turkey, and fisheries management.
Since the inception of the “Bobwhite Brigade in 1993, the Texas Brigades program has grown to include five summer wildlife leadership camps throughout the state. Each camp is 4 ½ days long and consists of 25-30 youth attendees (ages 13-17) in a curriculum ranging from the hunters role in conservation, to plants important for wildlife, to giving power point presentations to civic groups. The cadet’s days are long and fast-paced. Lectures are shunned in favor of hands-on learning. Cadets spend nearly half their time working on such important human adaptations as team building, leadership development, public speaking, and confidence.
For more information
about Texas Brigades, contact
Helen Holdsworth at 800-839-9453 or
h_holdsworth@texas-wildlife.org.
