June 11, 2009 in Washington Voices

Program gave kids day in the woods

District cuts outdoor experience for fifth-graders, staff optimistic
Nina Culver ninac@spokesman.com, (509) 927-2158
 
Tags: Liberty Lake County Park Outdoor Environmental Ed

Arber Sejfiu and Colton Weber use nets to capture invertebrates from Liberty Creek during their “Kids in the Creek” portion of Outdoor Environmental Education.
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For 23 years Glen MacPhee has helped run the Outdoor Environmental Education program for fifth-graders in the Central Valley School District. Last week, however, he taught students about wildlife in the woods of the Liberty Lake County Park for the last time. The relatively inexpensive program has been a victim of the district’s budget cuts.

“There’s absolutely no other place better than this,” he said of the park. “It has all the basics, all the animals you’d expect to find.”

The park includes a mix of ecosystems, including a creek, a marsh, ponderosa pine forest and cedar forest. Students from …

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