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Connecting Communities
STRAW brings together a network of schools, private landowners, public lands agencies, environmental organizations, restoration specialists, and community members while emphasizing the ties we all share with the larger natural community.
More than 300 parents and other volunteers participate in the restorations each year and students, teachers, parents, and others have contributed close to 47,000 volunteer hours to restoration work since STRAW was established in 1998.
The program has forged bonds among unlikely partners, including a unique alliance between students and ranchers. By working closely with landowners, STRAW helps to foster the ranchers’ own interests in conservation management while providing the technical assistance and labor needed to complete restoration work on their land.
For their part, students learn from exposure to adults whose lives focus on ranching and land management and protection, while also having the opportunity to participate as full members of a larger community working together to solve environmental problems.
STRAW brings together a network of schools, private landowners, public lands agencies, environmental organizations, restoration specialists, and community members while emphasizing the ties we all share with the larger natural community. More than 300 parents and other volunteers participate in the restorations each year and students, teachers, parents, and others have contributed close to 47,000 volunteer hours to restoration work since STRAW was established in 1998.
The program has forged bonds among unlikely partners, including a unique alliance between students and ranchers. By working closely with landowners, STRAW helps to foster the ranchers’ own interests in conservation management while providing the technical assistance and labor needed to complete restoration work on their land.
For their part, students learn from exposure to adults whose lives focus on ranching and land management and protection, while also having the opportunity to participate as full members of a larger community working together to solve environmental problems.
