Muskogee County Conservation District and Rogers County Conservation District Featured in News

Trish Kloeckler, Muskogee CCD secretary, speaking to eighth graders at Fort Cobb Middle School.

Cheryl Cheadle, OCC Blue Thumb coordinator, showing students a map of sampling sites in the Crow Creek Watershed.

Rogers State University Conservation Education Reserve

Muskogee County Conservation District and Rogers County Conservation District were each featured in local newspapers for their activities in January 2011.

Muskogee County Conservation District, along with OCC's Blue Thumb Program, were featured in the Muskogee Phoenix newspaper on Jan. 22. The article, "Fort Gibson students learn conservation," by Phoenix correspondent Chesley Oxendine, reported on a presentation that Trish Kloeckler, Muskogee CCD secretary, and Cheryl Cheadle, OCC Blue Thumb coordinator, gave to Fort Gibson Middle School science class. They explained what nonpoint source water pollution is and ways to prevent it to teacher Tammy Delmedico's eighth-grade science class. They also described how the Blue Thumb Program trains volunteers how to take and test water samples to monitor the health of local streams and creeks. The article is available on the newspaper's website at http://muskogeephoenix.com/local/x1221299078/Fort-Gibson-students-learn-conservation.

Rogers County Conservation District and the Rogers State University Conservation Education Reserve were featured in the Trends section of the Sunday edition of the Claremore Daily Progress newspaper on Jan. 24. "How do animals deal with Oklahoma's weather swings?" by newspaper staff writer Pat Reeder posed that and other questions to Robert Gibbs, the district's conservation education coordinator. Gibbs described how various birds and other wildlife survive seasonal changes. The article and related photos are available on the newspaper's website at http://claremoreprogress.com/local/x233969516/How-do-animals-deal-with-Oklahomas-weather-swings.