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The Stafford Nature of Learning Tours Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge

The Nature of Learning students from Stafford Intermediate School (in Stafford Township, Ocean County) sighted a great blue heron, a peregrine falcon, black ducks, wood ducks, a great black-backed gull, and a cormorant as well as many vultures and other animal species during a field trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge's Brigantine Division on March 22. Ms. Cathy O'Leary, the lead teacher for The Nature of Learning program at Stafford, brought her students by bus to Forsythe Refuge's headquarters in Oceanville, where they were met by Dr. Jim Cramer, the New Jersey Field Office's Coordinator of The Nature of Learning program; Ms. Christine Raabe, the program's Educational Consultant; and Mr. Art Webster, Forsythe Refuge's Outdoor Recreation Planner. After a session on the use of a basic bird identification guide, the students toured the Refuge's eight-mile Wildlife Drive, climbing two observation decks and scanning the skies and terrain with binoculars and spotting scopes. The eighteen sixth-graders also collected specimens of organisms inhabiting a tidal mud bank and stream.
Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge , the Nature of Learning tour, marsh mud sample
On the second full day of spring, they listened to spring peepers sounding their return to active life, and several students encouraged vultures to come for a closer look by lying "dead" in the grass.

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge , the Nature of Learning tour, drawing in a vulture -bait!
Art Webster directed the tour with easy-going efficiency, making good use of the new educational equipment Forsythe Refuge has acquired for conducting field trips. Stafford is the first school in the state to have the Refuge as a partner in its Nature of Learning program. At Stafford, the core of The Nature of Learning is a trimester-long elective course for sixth-graders of which a field trip-this time to Forsythe Refuge-is a component.
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