Environment DEC
From the June 2004 issue
Tenth Annual Earth Day Environmental Fair at Five Rivers
Forest Ranger Suzanne Heare
watches kids as they spray water
using an Indian can
DEC recently held its Tenth Annual Earth Day Environmental Fair at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center over the course of three days. More than 1,000 students and teachers participated in this event, and it's tough to decide who had a better time, the students or DEC staff.
Staff from various divisions presented a fun and educational program, showing students and teachers from Albany and Schenectady county schools what kids can do to help the environment now and in the future.
Stations and Staff
Rebecca Johnson of the SCA/Hudson
River Estuary Program uses
a life-size model while talking
about Atlantic sturgeon
As always, DEC put on another wonderful outreach event! All staff did a great job, ensuring that both children and adults had a memorable learning experience, and had fun in the process.
Classmates race to clean up an "oil
spill" at one of Environmental
Remediation's stations
Students suit up in Tyvek, hardhats
and respirators
Keith Gronwald of the Division of
Solid and Hazardous Materials
explains that the first land animals
were amphibians
