AYEA Summer Training - July

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AYEA Summer Fundraiser 6/24!

THANK YOU for helping us meet our match of $10,000 that raised $20,000 for AYEA program support! This was an outdoor event, packed with guests, which featured environmental leaders, including Caitlin Higgins, the new Director of Alaska Conservation Alliance.  There was news from AYEA chapters, youth performances from AYEA trainings, and delicious local foods. The evening was capped by a live and silent auction of great trips, sustainable products, and more!

Civics & Conservation Summit

March 12, 2009: Follow Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) at the Civics & Conservation Summit, a fun way to do so is by checking out AYEA's "Twitter" at twitter.com/ayea. AYEA teens will be updating our Twitter account throughout the Civics & Conservation Summit up to 3 times a day with quick accounts of what the participants are doing during the Summit. Which legislator are they meeting? What are they learning? How did the Rebels to the Pebble presentation go? Check out Twitter for a fun and dynamic way to stay in touch. What is Twitter? Twitter is an online, free, social networking tool that allows you to see updates on the "status" of the individual or group you are following. AYEA is using Twitter as a way for family, friends, and supporters of AYEA members to stay connected with AYEA events, trainings, and campaigns. Check it out!

Innovative Youth Employment in Parks

As part of NWF's efforts to help youth from a broad set of backgrounds connect to nature, NWF's high school leadership program Alaska Youth for Environmental Action has partnered with the city of Anchorage to launch the precedent-setting Youth Employment in Parks (YEP) Program.
 
Over the course of a summer, 20 youth from diverse backgrounds and cultures have been employed to learn about the environment, gain leadership skills, and give back to the Anchorage community through environmental education and service projects in Anchorages parks.
 
A meaningful first job-experience for teens who have previously not been involved in conservation issues, YEP cultivates the leaders of our next generation through youth empowerment, critical thinking, and civic engagement. YEP teens have learned about unpaved trails, stream bank restoration, recycling, global climate change, renewable energy, and invasive species. As teens learn about the issues they apply their knowledge in the recreational areas of Anchorage. Throughout the program they are exposed to the diverse range of issues that we face as Alaskans and global citizens, and are provided with the necessary skills to take action on those issues.

ISSUES WE WORK ON

• Global Warming
• Getting Kids Outdoors
• Clean Energy
• Sustainable Tourism
• Prince William Sound / Chugach
• Youth Education
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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Alaska Facts:

• Known as the Great Land, Alaska is the largest state in the union (570,373.6 sq mi), more than twice the size of Texas with only 1/33 its population — 1/5 the size of the contiguous 48
• 80% of U.S. National Wildlife Refuge land — 76 million acres — is in Alaska
• 64% of the nation’s National Park land — 54 million acres — is in Alaska
• The nation’s 2 largest National Forests are in Alaska
• 6-7,000 wolves roam Alaska, as do 98% of the U.S. brown bears (grizzlies)
• Alaska has nearly 2/3 of the nation's wetlands
• 4 major flyways converge in Alaska and 10 million ducks, 750,000 geese, and 80,000 swans nest here
• 12 species of waterfowl nest nowhere else in America
• 80% of the world's trumpeter swans and 50% of the world's tundra swans nest in Alaska’s wetlands

 CONTACT US:

  Alaska Regional Center
  750 West 2nd Ave, Suite 200
  Anchorage, AK 99501
  Phone: 907-339-3900
  Fax: 907-339-3980
  http://online.nwf.org/alaska

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