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Joshing Joshua – Yucca Yucca

Week One Featured Tree: Joshua Tree / Yucca brevifolia by Marisa Folse TREE ONE DATES: Post Selfie with Tree March 7-8 or April 1st to 7th. WIN $200: Take a selfie with featured tree during above-noted 2 days of Arbor Week or week of April Tree Hunt. Then post it using @guardiansaroundtheearth on Instagram orContinue reading “Joshing Joshua – Yucca Yucca”

Celebrating Trees

By Grace Colbert Why should we celebrate trees? Take a look outside. Chances are, you can see a tree or two from your window! Trees are essential to life on Earth and are important for both humans and animals. Perhaps most importantly, trees give off oxygen through a process called photosynthesis. We need oxygen toContinue reading “Celebrating Trees”

Wildlife Friendly Gardens

National Wildlife Foundation offers the below five steps to Create Wildlife-Friendly Gardens. This post links to their website: http://www.nwf.org to certify your new wildlife habitat. Whether an apartment balcony or a 20-acre farm, a garden that attracts beautiful wildlife helps restore habitat in commercial and residential areas. Provide Food Planting native forbs, shrubs and treesContinue reading “Wildlife Friendly Gardens”

Helping US Forests

Our work supports organized forestry efforts worldwide. Efforts that can overwhelm those responsible such as the USDA Forest Service. However, private sector volunteers, and supporters like you, may have the answers that can help Keep America Beautiful. The below post by Andrew Avitt, USDA Forest Service, Office of Communications dated December 2020 can originally beContinue reading “Helping US Forests”

ECE and Early STEM Education Update

When 2020 came to a close, we were able to reflect on its benefits and challenges. While GATE was challenged cancelling in-person early childhood educator seminars, the youth education community as a whole benefitted as more organizations offered online educator training. Teachers of the very young can now search online for #ECE Webinars and findContinue reading “ECE and Early STEM Education Update”