Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series: PHOTOGRAPHS
027 Environmental Education
Classes and Trails

TAGS: environmental education, Pine Mountain Settlement School, education, forests, Ben Begley, cleaning up the environment, teaching environmentalism, Mary Rogers, trails, plant identification, Split Rock, children, outdoor classrooms, wilderness training, stream ecology

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027 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Classes and Trails

One of many highlights of the early Environmental Education Program at Pine Mountain Settlement School was the opportunity for school groups to experience the many trails found at the school.  One of the favorite experiences for students was to slither through the narrow crevice of Split Rock on the “Split-Rock Trail.”  Close encounters with rocks have always fascinated children. A sense of excitement, fear, adoration, and sometimes amusement at the many “faces” that rocks can show a child, seems to be shared by many children. Following their up-close encounters with rocks at Pine Mountain, few will leave without reporting on the adventures on, between, under, and over rocks. The School abounds in them.

Guarding the safety of the children becomes integral to the training of all environmental education instructors. Many of them have grown up with the rocks along Pine Mountain and have their own stories and cautions, to tell.

Come and explore with us! We continue to offer our trails and rocks for discovery. In Spring many of the rocks are covered with trillium, ferns, salt-and-pepper, bloodroot, little-brown-jugs, and a myriad of other wildflowers, mushrooms, and unique shrubs and trees.

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**On this EARTH DAY weekend (April 22, 2023) we dedicate this page memory to MARY ROGERS who first led us on this trail and to BEN BEGLEY who continued the education … and to the staff who now continue to walk the paths.

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GALLERY: 027 PHOTOGRAPHS V ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Classes and Trails

SERIES V  (7 pages, 60 images)

[Photographs have not been edited or enhanced and some show their age.]

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See Also:
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Staff 1972 to Present

MARY ROGERS Staff
BEN BEGLEY Staff
DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH – Earth Day and Mary Rogers

Return To:
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Guide
PHOTOGRAPHS Guide

*Check back with us as we add more archived photographs of our past Environmental Education Programming.

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CONTENTS: Series V, 027-033, Box 3

SERIES V			ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION [EE]	Box 3
		027	Classes and Trails (Full Collection)
		028	Geology and Fossils (Selected)
		029	Indians and Settlers (Selected)
		030	Miscellaneous (Selected)
		031	Water (Selected)
		032	Workshops (Selected)
		033	People and Groups (Selected)