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		North American Association For Environmental Education

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Community and Conservation Education Partnerships for Place-Based Conservation Education in the US Forest Service Donald E. Howlett USDA Forest Service Hiawatha National Forest Partnerships play a key role in USDA Forest Service conservation education programs. This paper will discuss such two partnerships. The Clear Lake Education Center (CLEC) a residential natural resource education camp for grades 5-12 is a partnership between the Hiawatha National Forest and two local school districts. Each year several thousand students come to CLEC to
literacy. As you’ll recall a partnership was defined as a “mutually beneficial cooperative relationship preferably one that is longer than an individual project” and an individual is considered environmentally literate when they have knowledge of environmental processes and issues necessary to make informed decisions and participate in civic affairs. If you look at the “pieces” of these definitions again that is “mutually beneficial” “cooperative” “relationship” “longer than an individual project” “foster environmental literacy” “knowledge of environmental processes and issues”