Nearly 1,000 Students Engaged at 2019 Conservation Field Days!

For the 9th year in a row, the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance has participated in Outagamie County’s Conservation Field Days, an event the County has coordinated for the past 55 years!

Nine hundred and forty-five students from schools in Appleton, Black Creek, Freedom, Greenville, Hortonville, New London, Seymour, and Shiocton participated in the event held September 24th through the 26th.

The event was held on a beautiful farm on the county’s west side, and features nine stations, including, Forestry and Woods, Gardens and Pollinators, Recycling, Conservation Jeopardy, Pond and Wildlife, Food Production, Soils, Conservation Technology, and Water. FWWA hosted the Water Station and educated 5th and 6th grade students about the Fox-Wolf River Basin, how water moves throughout our watersheds, and discussed pollutants that get carried by stormwater into our lakes and rivers. After learning about our water resources, the students broke in two teams to play the dog poop pickup relay race game, and the stormwater runoff plinko game, and then switched.