Show Title: The ABC's of Environmental Education
Producer: Linda Kubitz
Time: 27:40
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>>>TODAY ON IMPACT...THE ABC'S OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.
---(Gardening to me is the most marvelous way of learning science. In fact in our class exercises, we consider our gardening as a science project.)---
---(What they learn most is a responsibility. These horses are here everyday. It's not something they can put away one day and come back next week. These horses are here everyday, and it's their responsibility that they know that they've got to come out and take care of them every day. That's the thing. There' s a day to day need for these, an hour to hour actually, so these kids have to be aware of it all the time.)---
---(So many children grow up in an urban area, and there isn't just as much opportunity as there used to be in prior generations to get the feel of the land by actually living on a farm or out in the forest. So in order to develop an appreciation for why trees are really our most important natural, renewable resource, it's so important to bring the information and the resources into the classroom, to share that information with the students.)---
>>>THIS IS IMPACT. A WEEKLY LOOK AT ISSUES AND ANSWERS THAT IMPACT OUR LIVES AND THE WORLD AROUND US. PRODUCED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES.
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>>>ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO LEARN ABOUT PLANTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT IS THROUGH GARDENING BUT IT'S HARD TO DO WITHOUT GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY. SO, THIS 13-YEAR OLD DECIDED TO GET AN EARLY START ON HIS GARDENING INSTRUCTION BY BECOMING FLORIDA'S YOUNGEST MASTER GARDENER.
>>>JOHN ANDREW KORYCKI-FLORIDA'S YOUNGEST MASTER GARDENER: I believe I got my interest in gardening from my mother. When I was real small she took me out to the garden bed and we would plant flowers and vegetables. And since then I've learned the difference between beneficial bugs and harmful ones, and diseases, and problems that generally occur with plants that I didn't even know about.
---(Another thing you have to watch for is with annuals and with any plant is bugs because they really attract them when they're fresh and young. And they could really easily get killed this way.)---
>>>THE MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE BEGAN IN THE STATE MORE THAN 12 YEARS AGO. SINCE THEN, IT HAS ATTRACTED THOUSANDS OF ADULTS AND EVEN CHILDREN SUCH A JOHN ANDREW.
>>>GEYER: Children are basically what are going to be our next generation of adults, so I think if we can start early enough to prepare them, they'll be much better off. They'll already know how to learn how to live with the environment and how to have a better landscape, you know, have a better garden, and so on, so I guess if we can start young, we are much better off than if we wait until they are, you know, retired.
>>>UF Extension Agents say children need to learn about plants, animals, and preserving our natural resources because it's all part of the ABC'S of environmental education.
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>>>GARDENING IS THE NUMBER ONE PASTIME IN AMERICA TODAY AND THAT'S WHY THE MASTER GARDENER'S PROGRAM HAS TAKEN OFF. THE IDEA BEHIND IT IS TO GREEN-UP FLORIDA BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE GROWING INTEREST IN THIS HOBBY.
>>>GEYER: As far as subjects covered, range all the way from the basic botany, how does a plant grow, to some of the insects and diseases that affect a plant, how to take care of them. We emphasize integrated pest management for instance, how to take care of plants, the lawn oftentimes is a very big subject for most people, so we try to cover that very thoroughly. We cover things like nuisance wildlife, and other pests, indoor--household pests, and the basically the whole gamut of questions that we oftentimes get from the general public at the extension service.
>>>THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BECOMING A MASTER GARDENER VARY FROM COUNTY TO COUNTY BUT BASICALLY, YOU NEED TO TAKE BETWEEN 50-1OO HOURS OF CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION PLUS PASS A WRITTEN TEST. MASTER GARDENERS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO HELP TRAIN OTHERS IN THE ART OF GARDENING.
>>>MARLENE KORYCKI-JOHN ANDREW'S MOTHER: They are educated in learning about seeds. They're taught how to plant a seed into the ground, what it takes for that seed to grow up, the responsibility involved in fertilizing that seed and watering that seed. In general it helps them with responsibility in life, I believe. They see that seed grow up to be a beautiful flower or vegetable or tree, and this is what we need to help keep our environment.
>>>JOHN ANDREW KORYCKI: Well, I think it helps you have respect for the things that are around you. I don't think that everybody should become involved in a Master Gardener Program, or even planting a vegetable garden, but I do believe that if you know where the food comes from and how much work goes into it, and the value of it, you'll be more inclined to be aware of the environment and to be more considerate and giving more detail to it.
---(Well, when you first plant them, they need to be watered about every day and after that, once a week.)---
>>>AS FOR JOHN ANDREW, HE SAYS HE WANTS TO BE A FARMER WHEN HE GROWS UP EITHER IN CROPS OR CATTLE. EITHER WAY, IT LOOKS LIKE HE'LL STAY PLANTED AT LEAST FOR A WHILE.
---(This is called Confederate Jasmine minima, because it's little. It's going to stay low and it's going to cover this ground. The reason that we want this in the garden today is because hopefully it will spread around and kill the weeds out.)---
>>>IF YOU'VE NEVER TRIED TO MAKE A GARDEN GROW, YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE TROUBLE YOU CAN GET INTO IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. PLANTING PLANTS TOO DEEP IS ONLY ONE MISTAKE "GREEN" GARDENERS MAKE. OVER-WATERING AND OVER-FERTILIZING ARE SOME OTHERS. BUT WHERE CAN YOU GO FOR HELP WITH GARDENING IF THERE ARE NO EXPERTS AROUND? IF UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S LEE COUNTY EXTENSION HAS IT'S WAY, A GROUP OF CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COULD BE A GOOD CHOICE.
---(Line the roots up like the Master Gardeners told us.)---
>>>STEPHEN BROWN-UF LEE COUNTY EXTENSION: I think it's important for them to get the hands-on experience, hands-on training because you never can really appreciate the techniques, the involvement from a book, you have to do it hands-on, and you have to go through perhaps some of the frustration of how it can be done or it can't be done, you have to learn mistakes quite often in the field, and you become a better practitioner of the art of gardening, horticulture, farming.
>>>THIS COMMUNITY PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO TEACH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GARDENING FROM THE GROUND UP. IT'S HOPED THEY'LL GAIN A BETTER APPRECIATION FOR NATURE AND THE WORLD AROUND THEM.
>>>BROWN: Plants are things that really in a garden environment need care, nourishment, and they have to be provided for, so it extends their caring ability. It also give them a perspective of how finite things are. Because many of the plants that they see, some will be successful, some won't, when they plant them, and sometimes they have to remove the dead ones, and it also help them I think understand maybe a little bit more about biology. Where plants come from, the nature of plants, perhaps even where one plants fit in relationship to another plants. And of course this may be a great opportunity for them to learn that not all product comes from the supermarket, but they're actually grown in place, in the soil, in the dirt so to speak, and that's what really life is about.
---(This is cypress mulch and that retards a lot of insects. This little thing is....)---
>>>THESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THINK THEY'RE LEARNING ABOUT THE FUN HOBBY OF GARDENING BUT HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, B. J. NUCKOLLS HAS ANOTHER IDEA IN MIND.
>>>B. J. NUCKOLLS-CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL: Gardening to me is the most marvelous way of learning science. In fact in our class exercises, we consider our gardening as a science project. Through the years we've done so many many things, and my classes for the last 5 years have been gardening. So I'm delighted to say that my science students know more than almost any others, and in this way we're meeting those goals of providing students with a hands-on, minds-on activity.
>>>FOR THE STUDENTS, THEY JUST ENJOY GETTING OUTDOORS AND GETTING THEIR HANDS DIRTY.
>>>MICHELE DIAZ-CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL: Gardening in general helps teach responsibility because it's very time consuming, it takes a lot of patience to work with the plants and you have to know what you're doing, you have to be taught well and not only just try and go out there and get into it for yourself but you have to learn to accept learning from other people, and working with people in order to get the job done.
>>>THE PURPOSE OF TODAY'S PLANTING IS TWO-FOLD. FIRST, THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE GETTING A FEEL FOR THE CHALLENGE OF GETTING A GREEN THUMB. AND SECOND, THE PLANTS GOING INTO THE GROUND MAKE UP A SPECIAL PART OF THIS GARDEN.
>>>BROWN: Most of the gardening here is of an ornamental nature. So, it is really in essence a beautification program to enhance the community and to serve in particular the audience that have maybe some physical disabilities, whether they're blind or handicapped or the like, so it's a teaching tool to help others and to make a better life for others.
>>>THIS FRAGRANCE GARDEN WAS PLANNED TO HELP PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ENJOY WHAT GARDENING HAS TO OFFER THAT'S WHY PLANTS SUCH AS CONFEDERATE JASMINE ARE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE AREA.
>>>MICHAEL KARNES-CYPRESS LAKE STUDENT: We know, we get out of class, come here, and put plants in the ground, and we learn how to do that, and it's good for the environment, helping the people out, you know, for the handicapped to come out here, they can enjoy it and we can enjoy it too. We can come out here on weekends or whatever.
>>>UF EXTENSION AGENTS SAY THE STUDENTS ALSO GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT TAKES TO GET CROPS FROM THE GROUND TO THE GROCERY STORE.
>>>BROWN: That product in the supermarkets, or even in a can, they're actually have a beginning source from the soil, fertilizer applied, mulch applied, water applied, and in certain cases insecticide, herbicide applied, and this is all part of the bigger regime that farmers have to go through, and therefore it's a bigger process than many realize, so they get that perfect tomato, or that perfect leaf of cilantro, or parsley, it takes more than just putting into the ground and leaving it and watering it. There's a whole regime that has been developed actually over thousand of years, that these students are now practicing.
>>>ALTHOUGH MANY OF THESE STUDENTS MAY NOT BECOME FARMERS DOWN THE ROAD, IT'S A SAFE BET THE SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE PLANTED TODAY WILL MOST LIKELY BLOOM IN THE FUTURE.
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>>>MORE THAN 15 MILLION ACRES OF FOREST LAND IN FLORIDA IS CONSIDERED TO BE COMMERCIALLY PRODUCTIVE SO WHAT BETTER PLACE TO PRACTICE BEING A GOOD STEWARD. FORESTRY REPRESENTATIVES SAY THEIR LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS UPON HOW WELL THEY TAKE CARE OF THEIR ACREAGE.
>>>PHILIP GORNICKI-FLORIDA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION: The primary goal of the forest products industry of course is to produce wood, but in order to do that on a sustained basis over the years, it's also imperative that the industry be a good land steward, and for that reason we're interested in maintaining wildlife and plant populations on industry lands to the maximum extent possible.
>>>FORESTRY EXPERTS SAY MORE THAN 5-THOUSAND COMMON EVERY-DAY ITEMS COME FROM TREES AND EDUCATING CHILDREN AND ADULTS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREST PRODUCTS IS A MAJOR PART OF THEIR JOB.
>>>JOE MACKENZIE-GEORGIA-PACIFIC FORESTER: Here in Florida, Georgia-Pacific owns approximately a million acres of land, and in order to have a sustainable source of trees well into the future, so we don't run out of our supply of trees, we are very committed not only to teaching youngsters about trees the way we're doing today, but we're also very committed to regenerating trees after they're cut. For example, typically for every one pine tree we cut down in Florida, five new ones are planted. And that is a big part of my job as a Georgia-Pacific forester. Just this year alone, on land that I'm responsible for, I planted several million seedlings.
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>>>TO HELP CHILDREN APPRECIATE FORESTRY PRODUCTS, GEORGIA-PACIFIC TAKES THEIR MESSAGE DIRECTLY TO THE CLASSROOM... ALONG WITH VARIOUS SAMPLES OF ITEMS MADE FROM TREES.
>>>MACKENZIE: They include, not only chemicals like turpentine but also a variety of other chemical products that are derived from trees. They include products like rosins and resins that used in all kinds of products that we typically don't think about, such as lipstick, shoe polish, chewing gum, salad dressing, and even, even toothpaste.
---(So you're going to have your own personal sample so take care of it and use your senses to look at these now.)---
>>>THE LESSON IN FORESTRY APPRECIATION BEGINS WITH THE NOSE. STUDENTS ARE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO GUESS THE FORESTRY PRODUCT BY ITS SCENT.
---(I want you to pick up your piece of wood pulp. the bleached pulp, hold it real, real close to your eyes, with both of your hands, just like this and real, real slowly, super slowly pull it apart.)---
>>>MACKENZIE: We try to use as many senses as possible in the classroom, and one of the senses that we included was a sense of smell. We actually had some products, some chemicals that come from pine trees, that are used in a variety of different products. Some of the ones that they actually looked at in the classroom today include pine oil, which is used in disinfectants and cleaners, and we also looked at another type of chemical from trees called wood antethol and it's used as a flavoring in candies and toothpaste and other kinds of products like that.
>>>MANY CHILDREN HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A PAPER MILL BEFORE SO GEORGIA-PACIFIC OFFICIALS BROUGHT THE COMPANY TO THEM... AT LEAST PARTS OF IT.
---(And remember this is what the paper looks like in some of the early stages of paper making.)---
>>>MACKENZIE: What we looked at first were some actual wood chips that we get from the trees after the bark has been taken off of them at the chip mill. The second stage we looked at were some of the actual fibers, or the wood pulp that we have that is used in the paper making process and then the third sample that each of the students looked at were some actual bleached samples of wood pulp.
---(It's my job to plant not one new one, not two new ones, but five new ones. For every tree we cut down, we plant five new pine trees.)---
>>>NOT ONLY DO PROJECT ORGANIZERS EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF FORESTRY PRODUCTS BUT ALSO THE REASONS FOR RECYCLING THEM. THAT'S WHERE A HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATION REALLY WORKS WELL.
---(So this is basically going to be the part that would normally be the grinding process. Chipping up the wood into the smaller pieces.)---
>>>MERYL KLEIN- ALACHUA CO. WASTE MGT. OFFICE: We take the paper that they're going to recycle, in this case it was newsprint, one of the pieces of paper that they could put into the recycle bin. We had them tear it up into quarter-size pieces, and we collected those in a cup and we put that paper into a blender, which was three-fourths of the way full, blended it up so that the fibers would come lose and they could reassemble them as paper down the line.
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---(Well, after it's ground up, we've got all these fibers in this watery kind of thing and how did he say we turned it into paper? What do we do? Boil it. No we don't boil it. Remember, he talked about something to make it flat. How do we get that? Use a screen. We use a screen. O.K. Go all the way to the bottom. There you go. Yes, it's going to look much different.)---
>>>KLEIN: We're trying to teach waste alternatives. We're trying to-to show environmentally all-how you wisely use your resources and dispose of them. And so in this case the students had a concern for their recyclables--where they were going and really wanted to make them aware that this was the natural resource with the paper, and it's an important renewable resource, but that it's important to recycle it and plant trees at the same time. So--so looking at both aspects, it's nice to be able to show them how the paper's made and then also how it's recycled.
>>>THESE YOUNG STEWARDS SAY THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARDS TREES HAVE CHANGED THANKS TO THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM.
>>>TERRELL MIDDLETON-STUDENT: I think it's important because we should know where it comes from so we can make it and recycle, reduce, and reuse it.
>>>RHONDA DENISE RIVERS-STUDENT: I was surprised when I learned that salad dressing came from trees and that ice cream came from trees.
>>>EXPERTS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FEEL PROGRAMS LIKE THIS PROMOTE STEWARDSHIP TO ALL AGES BECAUSE IT'S HOPED THE CHILDREN WILL PASS ON WHAT THEY'RE LEARNED TO THEIR PARENTS.
>>>DR. JERRY CULEN-UF EXT. SPECIALIST-ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Young people should understand the ecological concepts related to the environment--food chains, the whole business of how a forest community for example recycles nutrients and so on. This coupled with the awareness of issues, obviously if we're going to ask students or young people to be the decision makers of tomorrow, we should get them involved in the issues today.
>>>DR. GEORGE TANNER-UF HABITAT SPECIALIST: Forest stewardship is a concept that there are more things to the forest than just the trees. And timber industry has become more and more interested in looking at the entire forest, both the under story species as well--of plants, as well as wildlife species, and given that we live in an age where public concern and public opinion is very important, the timber industry's in both private industrial and non-industrial people are wanting to look after the forest, all the components of the forest to the best of the ability while maintaining an economic level of use of the property as well.
>>>GORNICKI: We always felt like that the practice of forestry was very compatible with various values other than just wood production. We feel like that there is a lot of beneficial wildlife values on forest lands, we feel like that there are many other types of plants other than just pine trees growing on forest lands which a lot of people are interested in. We know that forest lands provide a lot of opportunity for aquifer recharge, Lots of people like to use forest lands for recreational reasons and they're just very pretty to look at, so there's lots of values accruing from forest lands in Florida.
>>>FORESTRY OFFICIALS SAY THEIR STORY IS NOT ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH BECAUSE WHEN A TREE'S CUT DOWN TO MAKE WOOD PRODUCTS, MORE TREES ARE PLANTED IN ITS PLACE. THEY ADD IF MORE PAPER IS RECYCLED...WE CAN ALL HELP PRESERVE THIS MOST PRECIOUS NATURAL, RENEWABLE RESOURCE.
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>>>WHEN IT COMES TO LEARNING ABOUT PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT, THESE YOUNG ADULTS MAY HAVE MORE HORSE SENSE THAN MOST OF US. THEY'VE TAKEN ON THE DAY TO DAY CHALLENGE OF CARING FOR THEIR VERY OWN HORSE. A JOB THAT ISN'T AS EASY AS IT MIGHT SOUND.
>>>DARRELL HARVEY-VETERINARIAN: It's not something they can put away one day and come back next week. These horses are here everyday, and it's their responsibility that they know that they've got to come out and take care of them every day. That's the thing. There' s a day to day need for these, an hour to hour actually, so these kids have to be aware of it all the time.
---(This horse Blaze, he's going to get his encephalitis/tetanus which is one of the most important ones for down here in south Florida because of the mosquitoes.)---
>>>THE FIRST THING THESE 4-H MEMBERS MUST LEARN ABOUT HORSES IS PREVENTATIVE CARE SUCH AS VACCINATIONS AND CHECK-UPS.
---(We come out. The vaccination's given. We aspirate and make sure we don't have any blood and inject. Just like so.)---
>>>HARVEY: We vaccinated against our encephalitis /tetanus, our Potomac horse fever, and our flu/rhino, which are 3 most common that we give down in South Florida. Other horses, also that we vaccinate for rabies and strangles are some of the other vaccines that we do give for these horses.
---(If I kept doing that, it would bring it up a couple of inches and it would be the same length all the way down.)---
>>>PROPER GROOMING TECHNIQUES ARE ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF REGULAR HORSE CARE.
>>>ELAINE HOLLIS-4-H/ROPING WRANGLERS HORSE CLUB: A properly groomed horse will stay healthy. You know exactly how the horse is, you know, if there's any cuts or any bruises you take care of those. You will find those when you're grooming your horse. The brushing of the coat keeps the horse's coat healthy. The contact that the child has with the horse is also very special.
---(You got a nice even line. Start at the top and you want to go straight down, all the way around... keeping with the leg.)---
>>>WHEN YOU THINK OF OWNING A HORSE, THE IDEA SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF FUN BUT ONCE YOU TRY IT, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S LEE COUNTY EXTENSION AGENTS SAY YOU SOON FIND THERE'S MORE TO HORSE CARE THAN MEETS THE EYE.
>>>LINDA MCCOY-UF LEE CO. EXTENSION: For every hour you get to do the fun stuff you probably have to do 2 or 3 hours of grunge work to balance it out. And that's what you have to teach kids. Whether they're thinking of buying a horse for thICSelves or leasing a horse for their 4-H project or whether they think they want to do it as a career, or just as a hobby in the future, they have to have the experience first hand so that they understand the responsibility involved.
>>>BESIDES CARING FOR THEIR OWN HORSE, THESE 4-H MEMBERS ALSO RUN A HORSE BARN AND THAT MEANS KEEPING THE FINANCIAL RECORDS UP TO DATE.
>>>SUZANNE CONNER-4-H HORSE LOVERS OF CAPE CORAL: I have to collect the rent from all the-all the boarders here, and I have to pay the rent on the barn to the owner of the barn, every month. And I have to balance the checkbook and produce a barn financial sheet.
>>>IF THAT ISN'T ENOUGH WORK TO DO, THERE'S MORE DIRTY WORK TO BE DONE AROUND EVERY CORNER.
>>>HEATHER MCLEOD-4-H HORSE LOVERS OF CAPE CORAL: You have to be out there clean out his hooves, clean out the stall, you know, it's pretty much like a baby, you know, you have to make sure it's fed, and you have to make sure it gets cared for by the doctor, and the finances. I knew it was expensive, but, you know, you get a kind of a closer look at like all the little things, you know, you don't take into consideration supplements or you know, hoof stuff, and brushes and saddles.
---(In order to blindfold a horse, you have to put this through this like this. Then you have to go on the other side and do it the exact same way.)---
>>>IN THEIR SPARE TIME, THE 4-H MEMBERS DO COMMUNITY PROJECTS SUCH AS THIS ONE... TEACHING FIREMEN HOW TO HANDLE HORSES IN AN EMERGENCY.
>>>CONNER: If there's a fire, a horse would not like to come out of his stall. It's the most secure thing it knows. And, some horses get very wild and you have to blindfold them to get them out because they're scared of the fire. And we also teach the firemen the burning time of the stall, so how long they have the horse to get out.
---(This is how you lead a horse correctly and with her, well with any of them, you should walk about this far out.)---
>>>CAPTAIN DALE PALMER-CAPE CORAL FIRE RESCUE: The animals are panic stricken, in which their anxiety is at a high level. The fuel that's usually associated with barns is highly combustible, which adds to the excitement and danger of both the animal and the firefighter, so we need to know how to properly deal with the animals, calm them down, blindfold them, get them out of that environment so that we can properly extinguish the fire.
>>>ANOTHER COMMUNITY PROJECT THIS HORSE CLUB HAS UNDERTAKEN IS WORKING WITH SPECIAL POPULATIONS.
>>>MCLEOD: We're having the mentally challenged adult handicapped people... they're coming out and we're going to give them walking led trail rides. And it just gives them, you know, a day out. And they learn a little about horses and we learn a little about working with them.
>>>THE 4-H HORSE LOVERS CLUB OF CAPE CORAL OF COURSE INCLUDES INSTRUCTIONS ON SHOWING HORSES AND RIDING TECHNIQUES. BUT THE IMPORTANT LESSONS LEARNED HERE INVOLVE MUCH MORE THAN HOW TO HOLD THE REINS OR WHICH SADDLE TO USE.
>>>MCCOY: Four-Her's see a side of life that many young people don't see till they're 20 or 30 or may not ever actually get the clue that there's a lot of work involved in things you love.
>>>SO IF YOU'RE WILLING TO MAKE THE EFFORT, YOU CAN CHOOSE ALMOST ANY OUTDOOR HOBBY LIKE HORSE-BACK RIDING TO HELP YOU LEARN THE ABC'S OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.
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>>>IMPACT... A WEEKLY LOOK AT ISSUES AND ANSWERS THAT IMPACT OUR LIVES AND THE WORLD AROUND US. IT'S PRODUCED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES.