Through funding from The North Face Explore Fund, and the Bourne and Norcross Wildlife Foundations, and with the generous support of Preserve donors, we launched a year-long program of outdoor field studies with urban students from the San Miguel Academy of Newburgh. They learned critical STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills through orienteering and map reading, fire ecology, winter survival and more.

 

Photo: Students from the San Miguel Academy of Newburgh conduct outdoor field studies at Mohonk Preserve by Jay Diggs