Meeting Pattern
Online Pre-conference: June 8 - 22, 2026
Conference: Meet face-2-face
- June 23, 10:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- June 24, 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- June 25, 8:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Description
Join us at the ND Game and Fish Museum and OWLS site in Bismarck for an opportunity to experience current wildlife, land, water and forest management issues in North Dakota. While exploring the issues and identifying solutions, participants will receive real world, user friendly and classroom ready instruction from specially trained facilitators and natural resource professionals. Participants will receive three top environmental education curriculum guides for their classrooms so they be able transfer the institute's field studies to practical classroom applications. Participants will experience hands-on, minds-on learning through a balance of presentations, discussions, activities, field tours, and environmental investigations.
Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes
Objectives:
- Train educators in wildlife, land, water and forest conservation.
- Provide teachers with resources, lessons and classroom ready activities related to land, water and forest resources.
- Build capacity for educators to transfer the institute's field investigation to practical classroom applications. These field investigations are evidence-based studies that bring the scientific process out of the laboratory and into the natural world.
Required Student Resources:
- $50 conference fee payable to ND Game & Fish @ https://www.dwr.nd.gov/adminlink/4dcgi/wet/WET-12
- Dress to be outside, good walking shoes, boots, rain gear for the face-to-face component.
Registration Instructions
This event requires pre-registration @ https://www.dwr.nd.gov/adminlink/4dcgi/wet/WET-12
Online registration URL closes @ 5:00 p.m. on June 30, 2026. Allow 48 hrs. (2 business days) to process your registration form.