Class Presentations - SWCD staff will be happy to come to your class or Boy/Girl Scout group and talk about forestry, soils, water quality or careers in Natural Resources. Contact Kate at 218-723-4867 to schedule a visit.

Conservation Education Curriculum - A series of classroom activities for Grades  K - 12 created especially for educators in Carlton and South St. Louis County. Click here to download the document.

Watershed Friendly Service and Fundraising Projects - A guide for youth groups, church groups, service fraternities, boy scout and girl scout troops looking for service learning or fundraising activities that help protect and maintain our region's high quality water resources. Activities include: car washes, stream clean-ups, and storm drain stenciling. Check it out! Click here to download.

Envirothon - The Northern Area III Envirothon is an environmental competition for high school students that gives them the opportunity to challenge their environmental knowledge and problem-solving skills against other area students in various beautiful outdoor settings such as Camp Chicagami in Eveleth and the Cloquet Forestry Center in Cloquet. Students are organized in teams of five and visit six stations: water quality, wildlife, forestry, soils and a current environmental issue. At each station, students have the chance to speak with local natural resource professionals about their careers and are then required to complete a 20-point test specific to that station's topic. The tests are different every year and include questions that high school science students should typically be able to answer. Students are also required to prepare and give a 10-minute oral presentation on that year's current events issue at a sixth station to two judges.

Area III Envirothon - The 16th Annual Northern Area III Envirothon will be held on Monday, May 3rd at the Cloquet Forestry Center in Cloquet, Minnesota. Students in grades 9-12 from high schools, home schools, or club organizations (4-H, Boy/Girl Scouts, etc.) in Aitkin, Cook, Lake, and St. Louis counties are invited to participate! Each team is made up of five students and needs an adult advisor. All students receive a long-sleeve T-shirt. The 2010 current events topic for the oral presentation and current events station is: Protection of Groundwater through urban, agriculture and environmental planning. The scenario around which the oral presentations must be developed can be found by clicking here. The top three teams at the regional competitions are invited to compete at the state competition, which is typically about two weeks later. Contact Kate at 218-723-4867 to register your teams today!

A team of students enjoys learning about soils at the 2008 Envirothon.

Mountain Iron Buhl students at the 2009 Envirothon.

2009 Final Scores

State Envirothon - The Minnesota State Envirothon will be held on Monday, May 17th at Presbyterian Clearwater Forest Camp near Deerwood, MN. The State event is coordinated by  the MN Board of Soil & Water Resources, and is held at a different location every year. The top three teams from each Area Envirothon are invited to compete at the State competition.

National Envirothon - The 2010 National Envirothon will be held at the University of California in Merced, California August 1st - August 7th. The National Envirothon is sponsored by Canon. Visit  http://www.envirothon.org/ for more information.