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Here you will find news articles, as well as press releases and images that accompany CLBL news. Feel free to use this information as you inform others about the Organization. Please contact us if you don't see what you need.
News/Articles
- Sacramento students replant habitat along Dry Creek
- Teens aid in planting oaks
- Sonoma Valley High students dig in to save oaks
Read the article - Urban Students Become Farmers for a Day
- Students to teach about the benefits of bats
- Student restoration project gets boost from Lodi grower
- Grant-getting curriculum prepares students for work force
- State's cash crisis threatens Yolo conservation education efforts
- Conservation cuts: District reduces hours, programs as funding freezes
- Getting their hands dirty
Students interested in agriculture clamor to get into FARMS Leadership Program - Tree Planting in Woodland with KCRA [Video]
- It Takes Teamwork: Partnerships Bring Habitat to Farms and Ranches
Read the article - Labor that Teaches —
Program passes on cooperative spirit to students
Read the article - Teens help make a difference in the Delta
Read the article - Former CLBL SLEWS Coordinator and landowner Alex Palmerlee wins 2007 Conservation Partnership Achievement Award from Natural Resources Conservation Service and California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
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- CLBL Founder and President Craig McNamara wins the prestigious Leopold Award for 2007
Read the article - "Taking Stock" (See "Hands on education" section) Solano Magazine, February/March 2007
Read the article - "Habitat Helpers Area students work to save elderberry beetle at El Rio Farms" Lodi News-Sentinel, 1/31/07
Read the article - "Young people dig in to plant elderberries Teens' toil will aid imperiled Valley beetles" Recordnet.com, 1/31/07
Read the article - Bay Area Open Space Council newsletter (article on page 12)
Download the newsletter (PDF format, ~1.5 MB) - "Students discover a new world with SLEWS" Davis Enterprise, 5/19/06
Read the article - "Land lessons Lodi High School students learn about the environment" Lodi News-Sentinel, 4/21/06
Read the article - "Center for Land-Based Learning, a Solano RCD Partner in the Spotlight" (See page 2) The Lay of the Land newsletter, 2/22/06
Download the newsletter (.pdf format, ~ 1.2MB) - "Students Reconnect with Nature" Stockton Record, 2/14/2006
Read the article - "Giving something back" Daily Republic (Fairfield, CA), 1/6/2006
Download the article (.pdf format) - "Teens get pizza with education on the side" Fresno Bee, 12/14/2005
Download the article (.doc format) - "SLEWS in Full Swing" Woodland Daily Democrat, 10/24/05
Read the article - "Fremontia Making Ends Meet: Community-Based Stewardship on Private Lands" by Dan Leroy (pages 20-25)
Download the article (.pdf format) - The Nature Conservancy Conservation Spotlight Northstate SLEWS Program
Read the article - "Environmental Defense The Farmer as Conservationist"
Read the article - "Cooperative Conservation America Case Study: Audubon California Landowner Stewardship Program"
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Press Releases
- December 11, 2009
Oak Woodlands to be Restored at Bouverie Preserve Through Unique Partnership
Downloads: Press Release (.doc format) - September 8, 2006
“Chocolate Sunday” with Scharffenberger, founder (Hometown Advance Preview of His First Cookbook)
Downloads: Press Release (.doc format) Book cover (.JPG format) Head shot of author (.JPG format) - December 9, 2005
Fresno FARMS Program Students Make Healthy Pizzas at CSU Fresno
Read the full story here - December 9, 2005
Students in Sonoma County FARMS Program assist Moon Mountain Vineyards with Natural Pest Control
Downloads: Press release (.pdf format) Photo (.jpg format, ~2MB) - December 1, 2005
Fairfield, CA The Solano Land Trust, the Solano County Resource Conservation District and the Center for Land-Based
Learning are co-sponsoring a volunteer day from 9-1 on December 10 to plant oak trees at Lynch Canyon Open Space as part of an oak regeneration research project.
Downloads: Press release (.doc format) - November 30, 2005
Winters, CA Youth Habitat Restoration And Education Program Offers Tour Of Restored Agricultural Sites
Downloads: Press release (.doc format) - October 27, 2005
The SLEWS Program is awarded the 2005 Watershed Excellence Award from the Sacramento River Watershed Program in Red Bluff on October 27th, 2005
Downloads: Press release (.doc format) Photo (.jpeg format, ~775K)
Logos and Program Images
FARMS Leadership Program
FARMS students learning about fresh vegetable production
Two FARMS students learning how to work together
Sacramento Valley Having fun while learning about agriculture
Northstate Planting native species on a restoration project
SLEWS Program
A SLEWS student laying down drip irrigation line
A diverse group of SLEWS participants working together
A SLEWS student plug planting native grasses
SLEWS students getting ready for the day by practicing teamwork
Farm on Putah Creek
FARMS students learning about soils
A view of the Farms insectary hedgerow
Learning about compost on a CDFA family day
A beautiful riparian plant along the Farms tailwater pond
Staff/Organization
President Craig McNamara with a young boy at Yolo Housing Authority
Director Mary Kimball at a SLEWS field day
Michael Barnes, Farm on Putah Creek manager
Dan Leroy, past SLEWS Program Director, planting sedges with Davis High School students
SLEWS Program Coordinator Nina Suzuki
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