NUCFAC PLT Greenschools! YLINC Summer 2014 Day 4: Stephen F. Austin State University

The Stephen F. Austin Gardens, where our kids talked shop with professors of horticulture. Landscape design, plant breeding and more botanical career oppurtunities are wide open for them!

To unite the campers as one unit, Furr High School teacher David de Hoyos led a team building exercise for the students in the Stephen F. Austin Mast Arboretum. Students wrote their names, their strengths, and their weakness on a small white board, and shared them with someone that they were accustomed to talking to so far during this trip. The exercise worked wonderfully, and soon the pairs of students were taking good care of each other.

NUCFAC PLT Greenschools! YLINC Summer 2014 Day Three: Gardens of Organic Eatin'

The kids at the University at Houston.

Our future conservation leaders saw flocks of birds of all sizes and colors at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge for their first stop. Canvasback Ducks, Great White Egrets, Wood Storks and Roseated Spoonbills filled the sky with a living confetti as we took the auto tour from the Discovery Center. Long-time volunteer David Brandes and Outdoor Recreation Coordinator Tim Schnider of the USFWS then brought out their fascinating alligator, corn snake, speckled king snake and hog-nosed snake for a touch and feel experiential learning program. Y-LINC kids learned about the important functions and characteristics of snakes.