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Bluebag Media
Learning in order to
teach part of Linebaugh’s training
GREENVILLE – “Every year we plant 2.3 billion trees… that’s nine trees
for every man, woman and child (in this country),” said Hannah
Linebaugh, Darke County Parks Naturalist. She noted this is an
indication of the value placed on trees in the environment. “In 1990s,
for instance,” she added, “our reforesting program had increased to 30
percent from only 12 percent in the 1940s.”
This is just one of the “facts” Linebaugh presented to Junior
Naturalists (grades 3-6) in October. Others included talking about many
of the 120 native species of trees in Ohio and the more than a dozen
that can be found at Shawnee Prairie. She had a trimmed down version
scheduled for Kindergarten through second grade over the weekend,
however there wasn’t enough participation from the age group to present
the program...
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