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STAFF 4-H Wildlife Stewards Project Director
Name: Maureen
Hosty Oregon State University Maureen
provides overall leadership to the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program and
the 4-H Wildlife Stewards State Team. Under Maureen’s leadership
and with the effort of many past and present OSU Extension staff, volunteers
and community partners, the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program was created.
The program began in 1997 in Portland, Oregon. Today the program is
in multiple counties throughout the state. Maureen is primarily responsible
for facilitating 4-H Wildlife Stewards staff, volunteers and teachers
to create, enhance and sustain the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program and
develop it into a national model. 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program Coordinator Phone: 503-916-6074 Susan’s strong background in education and science is the key focus of her role on the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Team. Her Masters project included facilitating workshops for students, teachers, administrators, and community members on developing and maintaining habitats on school grounds using school and community resources. Discussions she led included ideas of how to overcome barriers and achieving success during the different phases of planning, maintaining, and using wildlife areas. Further, Susan has experience working with similar groups on meeting and achieving educational goals and Oregon benchmarks. With her experience she has found that learning is an ongoing process relying heavily on the resources and people of the entire school and surrounding community. Susan provides primary support to the 4-H Wildlife Stewards schools in the three-county Metro area and helps facilitate schools to meet their project goals. She assists the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Training and Design Team teach curriculum lessons for the Habitat, Science Investigations in the Habitat and Science Education Benchmarks. 4-H Wildlife Stewards Project Coordinator Mailing Address: OSU Extension 4-H, Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon, Portland, OR 97214 Phone: 503-916-6074
Name: David
J. White Fax: 541-548-8919 Dave’s focus on the team is to help 4-H Wildlife Stewards know and understand the mapping and site inventory process. As a reviewer for the publication For the Well Being of Youth and Adults, Dave works with trainees so they are familiar with heir rights and responsibilities regarding child protection issues. Nose of the Newt, Toe of
Toad, Scale of the Skink is a CD, designed by Dave, to help 4-H Wildlife
Stewards identify some of Oregon’s amphibians and reptiles. Dave is a graduate of the Pacific Crest Outward Bound program. He also sits on the state 4-H Natural Sciences Committee. In addition to 4-H Wildlife Stewards, he teaches for the state 4-H Sport fishing and Aquatic Ecology team.
Title: Assistant Professor, 4-H Extension Faculty (BS and MAg Agriculture) Mailing Address: OSU Extension Linn County, PO Box 765, Albany, OR 97321 Phone: 541- 967-3871 Fax: 541- 967-9169 Email: Robin Galloway Team Role: Promoting and Marketing Your Program to Others, Working with the Media, Student Portfolios, Stages of Child Development, and Curriculum Lessons for the Habitat. Robin’s focus on the
team is to help 4-H Wildlife Steward volunteers and teachers build their
program by marketing and promoting their Habitat Education Site to others.
She has developed and written several articles to help on these topics
and is a co-author of the new 4-H Wildlife Stewards Promotional video.
Title: OSU Faculty, 4-H Outreach Agent (B.S. Geology) Mailing Address: OSU Extension Benton County, 1849 NW 9th Street, Corvallis, OR 97330 Phone: 541-766-3552 Fax: 541-766-3549 Email: Maggie Livesay Training Team Role: Birds, 4-H Member School Advancement Program, Mapping and Site Inventory, School Project Notebooks, Junior 4-H Wildlife Stewards Advancement Program. One of Maggie’s roles on the team is to help 4-H Wildlife Steward volunteers and teachers to appreciate the wonder of birds. Birds occur in a myriad of shapes and sizes and are a joy to observe with their diverse behaviors. They are often the most visible wildlife that youth can observe during the school day are often the first wildlife to visit a newly restored or enhanced schoolyard habitat education site. Maggie has also been heavily involved in the creation, teaching and design of the 4-H Member School Advancement Program. This aspect of the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program gives participating Member schools guidelines and recognition for meeting the requirements of creating and sustaining Habitat Education Sites on School grounds. She is also part of the team creating the Junior 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program and she loves to expound on the importance of creating a Project Notebook for your schoolyard education site. Maggie brings much practical experience working with volunteers, teachers, community agencies and students creating, maintaining and sustaining education sites on school grounds as the 4-H Wildlife Stewards program coordinator in Benton County. Prior to her position as the 4-H Outreach Agent Maggie provided the leadership for the Groundwater Quality Education Program in Benton County. Her background working with youth and natural resources is evident in her excitement about the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program. 4-H Wildlife Stewards Curriculum Specialist
Title: 4-H State Extension Specialist (B.S. Rangeland Resources; M.S. Outdoor Education) Mailing Address: Oregon 4-H Education Center, 5390 4-H Rd NW, Salem, OR 97304 Phone: 503-371-7920 Fax: 503- 581-6696 Email: Virginia Bourdeau Team Role: 4-H Wildlife Stewards Curriculum Specialist Virginia is responsible for state-wide educational leadership of the camping, natural science and horticulture projects in 4-H. She is a Certified Interpretive Trainer (CIT) with National Association for Interpretation. Beginning in 1995, the Oregon 4-H program began to revitalize and redesign its natural science project areas. Virginia provided leadership for the revitalization teams. She authored or co-authored publications in support of this effort including 4-H Wetland Wonders, Our Water World 4-H Marine Science Discovery Project; Oregon 4-H Earth Science Leader Guide and Of People and Fish 4-H Natural Science and Cultural Discovery Program. She is currently working on a new curriculum to support the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Program entitled What Can we Learn at the Habitat Area Pond? A 4-H Model for Scientific Inquiry.
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