The MAEOE conference provided an opportunity for Alpena office staff to learn hands-on environmental educational activities that can be used for in-school curriculum within the Alpena Public School District.  Conference break-out sessions that were particularly interesting and useful included:  Logistics of Outdoor Field Trips, The Wonder of Weasels, and Flying Wild.  These topics provided activity based environmental education examples to help students learn about the outdoors, animal identification and life history characteristics, and migration obstacles.  It also provided valuable contact and resource information to assist with teaching the activities presented.