Several of my guests – Kady Yeomans, Claire Dobie, and many more to come – talk about the value of teaching extra cubiculum – outside the classroom, immersed in the nature about which we are teaching. Most naturalists I’ve ever met or worked with simply accept that it just works… that it’s unquestionable that getting...

On this week’s podcast, I talk with Minnesota naturalist Claire Dobie about the job of a nature-based educator. It’s an interesting gig and one I know well, as I did some version of nature-based education for more than a decade before switching over to classroom-focused work. We naturalists, interpreters, rangers, and...

Fox tracks and coyote tracks are really hard to tell apart – especially in the snow! For our Fun Fact in this week’s podcast, naturalist Claire Dobie described how she helps kids determine the difference. Want to find out yourself? Well, I won’t leak the secret here, but ur-ine luck! Make a pee-line – I mean, a...