WAC Watershed Forestry Education

02/23/2023

We are hiring for our summer 2023 paid internship position - Watershed Forestry Educator!!! Applications due March 20.https://www.nycwatershed.org/wp-content/uploads/forestry/forestry-educator-intern-announcement.pdf

05/02/2022

🌳🌱💦 Discover how WOODS WASH WATER in NYC's drinking water watersheds. Apply now for our Watershed Forestry Institute for Teachers
July 17-21, 2022

This summer’s Watershed Forestry Institute for Teachers (https://www.nycwatershed.org/wfit) will be in person at the newly renovated Taconic Outdoor Education Center in Cold Spring, NY. Our free institute is for 4-8th grade teachers and non-formal educators teaching in NYC and the upstate NYC Watersheds. At the WFIT, you will explore the forests, waters, science, history, and world-famous partnerships of the NYC Watershed and become informed, inspired and equipped to teach watershed forestry topics to your students. You’ll earn 20+ CTLE credits and get trained in the Project Learning Tree and Project WET curricula. Online applications due by Friday, May 20, 2022. https://www.nycwatershed.org/wfit

02/03/2022

We are hiring a paid summer Watershed Forestry Educator intern to support teacher and landowner outreach and education efforts in the East of Hudson NYC Watershed. Check out the flier and please share widely!https://www.nycwatershed.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022_forestry_intern_announcment.pdf

04/22/2020

We are going VIRTUAL with this summer's Watershed Forestry Institute for Teachers to ensure participant safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. The FREE program will take place in the month of July and is for 4-8th grade teachers and non-formal educators teaching in NYC and the upstate NYC Watershed. Apply online by Friday, May 29, 2020 if you have any interest in participating. More details to come as we develop the program.

The WFIT mission remains to explore the forests, waters, science, history, and world-famous partnerships of the NYC Watershed in order to inform, inspire and equip educators to teach watershed forestry topics. You'll earn CTLE credits and get trained in the Project Learning Tree and Project WET curricula.

06/15/2018

Time travel back to 1911 NYC with this beautifully edited series of video clips. And remember - the growing city was fueled by Catskills water!

Old film of New York City in the year 1911. Print has survived in mint condition. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance. This...

04/16/2018

The city has 10,542 acres of forests. The Natural Areas Conservancy, which says they are at a tipping point, is thinking about how to care for them.

09/05/2017

Water connects us all: Land use change contributed to Houston flooding. Check out these animated maps showing the pace of development in different neighborhoods.

Hurricane Harvey’s damage was magnified by policies that encouraged development in flood-prone areas.

09/05/2017

Essential reading as school gets back into the swing!

Do you know where your water comes from? Well, you’re about to. There is a long process every drop of water endures before it reaches our faucets, and we can thank forests for much of that process. Trees work as water filtration systems, intercepting, absorbing and purifying the water that we eventu...