Hands on the Land

Criteria

• The public land management agency or education center must offer education programs for students at a field classroom located on federal, state or public lands.
• These programs must be developed in partnership with a local school or school district and designed to support established school curriculum and local standards of learning as well as public agency resource management objectives.
• The programs may be delivered with the assistance of community partners and volunteers, but a public lands staff person must be permanently assigned as a point of contact.
• Programs must be offered on an ongoing basis; they cannot be one-time or once-a-year events.
• Preference will be given to those sites that demonstrate broad-based community support.