A Summer Full of Audubon Youth Leaders

Summer season on the Audubon Heart at Debs Park is available in many varieties, from rust-colored California Buckwheat to the trill of Hooded Orioles. For the Public Packages workforce, it additionally means the return of Audubon Youth Leaders, our flagship highschool program!

Audubon Youth Leaders is a summer season program that runs 4 weeks from June to July after which July to August. Highschool college students spend 80 hours all through the whole program studying about what it means to be an environmental chief of their neighborhood, connecting with California native ecosystems, and getting licensed as both a Local weather Steward or California Naturalist.

This summer season, we hosted 16 college students who at the moment are a licensed Local weather Steward through UCANR! We’re extremely happy with this cohort and the way a lot they completed of their time right here with us. 

As a part of their course, the scholars launched into three area journeys, with every being centered round bringing college students new nature experiences, connecting them to professionals within the conservation area, and empowering them to see how they’ll steward the neighborhood of life in Los Angeles.

This summer season, the scholars visited the LAX Dunes, Ballona Wetlands, and Rio de Los Angeles State Park. At LAX Dunes, we met with LAWA and the scholars explored this stunning web site as they appeared for the uncommon El Segundo Blue Butterfly within the largest remaining fragment of southern coastal dunes in LA.

On the Ballona Wetlands, our college students did restoration work alongside Mates of Ballona Wetlands and realized in regards to the historical past of this very important ecosystem as they bought to see a Snowy Egret and Yellow-billed Evening Heron for the primary time!

Lastly, we visited Rio de Los Angeles State Park (an area park to all of them) and bought to fulfill Luis Rincon from CalParks as they realized in regards to the park’s historical past, the community-wide efforts and tales that formed the park into what it’s now, and the conservation efforts for the Least Bell’s Vireo. We have been blessed to listen to the songbird in query as Luis was giving his speak!

Alongside all of those alternatives to community and join with conservationists, Audubon Youth Leaders have been very important in serving to with summer season restoration efforts and you will note their handiwork each step of the best way alongside Scrub Jay Path at Ernest E. Debs Regional Park.

We hope our Audubon Youth Leaders proceed to attach with our flock and we want them the perfect sooner or later!