The shining eyes, the bright faces, the curious questions, the overall enjoyment of seeing kids discovering nature is wonderful, and sadly rare. PCA kicked off its very first Discovery Hike on August 6th with a group of lovely young ladies from South Coast Children Services, in hopes to help remedy that in our small corner of the world.
The Discovery Hikes are the first of what I hope to be many new projects that PCA will be launching this year, in an effort to bring more nature and understanding to the residences of the coastside.
Tanya at SCCS was very helpful in planning and implementing this hike and I hope we will be working with her more in the future.
Kamilah and myself lead a hike along the Gazos Trail, talking about the ecology of the Redwood forest, the logging in the area and how it affects the forest and general environmental issues that affect the forest. This being the first time I had ever lead a hike or attempted to teach anyone about the Redwood forest and ecology, I was very happy with how well the girls kept up. Having grown up (and still living) in the Redwoods and having attended many of PCA’s past lectures, hike and other educational events, in addition to the fact that my father (who is one of PCA’s founders and very knowledgeable about the Gazos area) has taught me quite a bit over the years; I was happy to pass my knowledge along.
Afterward the hike, we discussed the hike and what to incorporate into future hikes and the girls agreed that shorter hikes with more hands on projects would be more to their liking, so in the coming months we hope to set up some stream ecology projects, useful plants of the forest workshop and data collection projects among more hikes.
We also hope to expand our Discovery Hikes, and will be adding info on this and other local programs to our website very soon! Check in often to see what we are up to!
Happy Trails!
Pescadero Conservation Alliance: www.gazos.org
To learn more about South Coast Children’s Services: http://www.southcoastchildren.org/
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