2015 Becker Award Winners
From a South Valley farm to a southern NM trail race, our 2015 award winners have taken environmental education and run with it! The Dr. Richard W. Becker Award honors Continue Reading →
Category: Central Region
Join us to Honor and Celebrate!
Join us in celebrating Barbara Garrity’s retirement after 8 1/2 years as our Executive Director! She has been selected to receive the Outstanding Service to Environmental Education Award and Joe Continue Reading →
New Partnership with New Mexico MainStreet Program
EEANM will partner with four NM MainStreet Program locations–Raton, Farmington, Grants and Truth or Consequences–to hold teacher workshops using the secondary module of Project Learning Tree (PLT), Places We Live. Continue Reading →
2014 PLT Outstanding Educator – Taylor Mayer
Taylor Mayer, first grade teacher from Sandia Vista Elementary School in Rio Rancho, received the 2014 NM PLT Outstanding Educator Award. Her nominator, Amy Waymire, provided this description of her Continue Reading →
EECapacity Focus Shifts from Food to History
Working with Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) in 2013, we hosted conversations, trainings and workshops promoting local food and community gardens.
Youth Conference on the Environment Returns
Thanks to continued support from Lockheed Martin, we are co-hosting the 17th Annual Youth Conference on the Environment on April 8, 2014. The free, one-day event offers high school science Continue Reading →
2013 PLT Outstanding Educator – Noel Chilton
Noel Chilton is the 2013 NM PLT Outstanding Educator of the Year! Noel is an highly skilled and dedicated educator, parent and activist. She was nominated by both her former Continue Reading →
The Lorax Comes to Jarales, NM
Jean Szymanski, Education Coordinator with the Forest Service, Southwestern Region, was the guest reader at the National Education Association’s (NEA) Read Across America Day. Read Across America Day is an annual Continue Reading →
2012 PLT Outstanding Educator – Carolyn Nesbitt
New Mexico Project Learning Tree (PLT) has announced its first annual Outstanding Educator of the Year. Carolyn Nesbitt is the Fenton Ranch Director for Manzano Day School, where she is responsible for teaching Continue Reading →
Project Learning Tree’s Green Schools! Program
On January 19th, four NM schools sent representatives to a training by Al Stenstrup of Project Learning Tree and Vicki Arthur of the Forest Service Conservation Education offices in Washington Continue Reading →