As we shift our focus from summer camps to the new school
year, it’s time to reflect back on all our amazing summer programs. From family programs at the community garden
and community hikes to all our adventurous camps around northern Nevada, it was
an action packed summer full of fun, friendship, new experience and
service!
When planning all of our summer camps, it is important for
us as an organization to instill in our youth participants a love for the
natural world as well as an ethic of stewardship and service in the outdoors to
ensure that the beautiful landscapes that surround them are well cared
for.
The 2017 summer camp
season was a huge success for NOS. We ran a total of seven summer camps across
Northern Nevada, all of which had a stewardship component. Depending on the age group, stewardship
projects ranged in intensity from picking up trash to spreading wood chips, and
even an extensive campground clean-up which included cleaning out fire pits,
clearing invasive plants, and trimming back overgrowth which was blocking
signage and walk ways. Through stewardship projects, we hope that campers will
develop a sense of ownership for these areas, and thus will be more likely to
continue to care for the land in the future.
Like all of our programs,
the success of our summer camp programs relies heavily on the funding we receive
that year. In 2017, NOS was fortunate to get funding from several sources including
the Frontier Community Coalition, the Nevada Mulley’s, Rocky Mountain Elk
Foundation, NV Bighorn and NV Chukkar, as well as the Disney Summer of Service
Grant. Without these sources of funding, the projects completed during NOS
summer camps simply would not have been possible.
We would like to give a VERY BIG THANK YOU to Disney Summer of
Service and all our other funders for helping us to fulfill our vision of a
society where no child born will be the last to be inspired by the natural
world!
-Space Jam and Jive
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