Here's a few of the programs we use as educational opportunities ​to connect with our community.
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​Desert Awareness
​This 75-minute in-classroom program is tailored to meet AZ science and history standards. Students rotate through 6 stations: stalwart skeletons, scrubby skins, desert predators, desert soils, ancient civilizations and trash your trash. Students discover how plants and animals have adapted to the desert environment, explore details through hands-on activities, and log results in their journals. 

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​​Hug-A-Tree and Survive
This 45-minute fun and interactive program provides children with safety tips such as staying in one place using trees, and how to be "big" and get noticed by people searching for them. There are demonstrations on signaling for help using a whistle and a reflector, as well as how to stay dry and warm using a trash bag. Participants receive a free survival pack. This program is geared for ages 6 - 12. Presented in partnership with Yavapai County Search & Rescue

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Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace (LNT) is a set of outdoor ethics promoting conservation in the outdoors  built on seven core principles that are used to communicate how to minimize impact while enjoying the outdoors. These Principles are the most robust and widely utilized minimum impact outdoor practices. These can be applied anywhere - from the backcountry, to local parks, to your backyard - and for any recreational activity.

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Nature Trails & Gardens
WCF works with local schools and other organizations to develop nature trails and pollinator gardens to support STEM based outdoor education. Students are encouraged participate in Citizen Science projects that teach scientific methods of study and data collection and encourage students  to formulate and answer questions.  Data collected by students is submitted for use by the scientists.

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Wickenburg Outdoor Education Partnership ​
​WCF partners with different organizations to create, host, and fund hands-on nature programs to increase student interest
in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and support AZ ​science standards. Some of these organizations
include:
Maricopa County Parks
Friends of Hassayampa (Hassayampa River Preserve)
Desert Caballeros Western Museum
AZ Game and Fish
Bureau of Land Management
Town of Wickenburg Parks & Recreation
​Wickenburg, Nadaburg and Morristown schools 
Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce 
General Federated Woman's Club Hassayampa