Environmental
Monitoring
Hands-on Science
We all check up on, watch out for, and keep
track of the things and the people we care about. Why should
the outdoors be any different? Browse the environmental
monitoring programs below and see how students and others
are helping to protect your land, air and water.
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Classrooms and member sites are monitoring ground-level ozone through leaf injury analysis of plants in their ozone gardens. |
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Very little is known about the slime molds of planet earth. Students, teachers, land managers and scientists are combining efforts to inventory slime molds nationally. |
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Classrooms and land managers are working together to monitor the health of the waters that are so precious to all life. |
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Classrooms are learning about the ecological importance of creepy-crawlies,
while helping scientists study insects and other arthropods. |
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Students are learning that there is more to snow than good snowballs by measuring the snowpack and its effect on plants, animals and people. |
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Students are helping scientists to monitor these important water-loving bio-indicators at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. |
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Learn how to start a monitoring program at your site or classroom.
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What's important to federal land managers? Classroom materials are now available on invasive species, fire, watershed protection, and forest resource management. 
