Snapshot: WATERshed champion Carlson inspires youth


Snapshot: WATERshed champion Carlson inspires youth


...Carlson, now the naturalist educator at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum in Somers, began sharing her passion for nature with children at Riveredge Nature Center in Newburg....

....Founded WATERshed

It led her to southeastern Wisconsin, where she created the WATERshed Program 11 years ago.

In partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, the city of Racine, Hawthorn Hollow and Southport Beach Park, Carlson secured grants from Wisconsin Coastal Management, Funds for Lake Michigan and other partners, to cover the full cost of bringing Racine Unified School District fourth-graders to the Root River Environmental Education Community Center and Kenosha Unified School District fifth-graders to Southport Beach, to learn how to be good stewards of the world’s largest freshwater resource....

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Ken Notes: I want to hang out with her! Great read and a Great person...

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