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The Walden Woods Project sets an example, acts as a resource, and offers some environmental solutions and hope to my high school students and to fellow educators. My students can see protecting the environment in action, all the work that must be done on the local as well as national political scenes from protecting the landfill from becoming a bus parking lot, to purchasing and protecting the land. I have had students volunteer at the Thoreau Institute, part of the Walden Woods Project, students, under the guidance of another teacher who took a course for educators on Thoreau, actually build a replica of his cabin. Several teachers from our school have taken courses there and availed themselves of the speaker series. The Walden Woods Project has also become part of our school's Senior Service Day. Students learn about invasives from the staff and spend time clearing sections of the woods. Other students have taken part in their essay contests on the environment and also have taken part in the student global initiative to exchange environmental ideas. The project is a steward for Walden Woods so future students may learn there as well and an educator for present students to learn the value of its environment and to become its protectors in the future. The educational resources are amazing.

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