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Roosevelt refuges goes back to school
Southeast Region, February 21, 2005
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Hollandale, Mississippi's High School sponsored a Career Day in February, and staff from Roosevelt Refuges were on hand for the event. To introduce and reinforce the notion that working for the Fish & Wildlife Service can be educational and fun, Panther Swamp Refuge Manager Bo Sloan, and Office Automation Clerk Dove Barnes, staffed their booth with visible reminders of the species that call National Wildlife Refuges ?home.? Sloan and Barnes displayed furs from red fox, mink, skunk, otter, raccoon, beaver, muskrat, nutria, opossum, coyote, and bobcat. When the students were drawn to their booth to handle the furs, Sloan and Barnes shared career opportunities and information about the FWS. Approximately 300 high school students and their teachers stopped by the booth, where they asked quite a few questions about the National Wildlife Refuge System. All the students were invited to take a drive down to the oldest national wildlife refuge in Mississippi - Yazoo Refuge - where they can take a stroll on the new Holt Collier Boardwalk to the Waterfowl Observation Tower. Literature about employment with the Service was provided to students and a most appreciative science teacher who is pondering the possibility of taking her science class on a field trip to the local national wildlife refuge.

Contributed by: M. Dove Barnes, Theodore Roosevelt NWR Complex, Hollandale, MS

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