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Yampatika Naturalist Karen Vail explains how living things survive under the snow during winter to Susan Ogden’s second-grade class Wednesday morning at Legacy Ranch. Ogden’s class was visiting from Strawberry Park Elementary School as part of a pilot program, which is designed to enhance what students learn in class.

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Yampatika program enhances education in Steamboat

Yampatika environmental literacy program aims to expand learning

Yampatika naturalist Kar­­­en Vail instructed a group of second-graders about animal habitats from a 4-foot-deep hole in the snow Wednesday morning. It was a simple exercise, but one that illustrated how Yampatika’s environmental literacy pilot program is educating local students.

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