Pennsylvania Institute for Conservation Education

Educational Program Opportunities & Events
Service Opportunities
Media Contacts
Reporting Your Activities

                    EARLY BIRD RECORD BOOK DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 1, 2008
                   FINAL RECORD BOOK DEADLINE IS APRIL 15th, 2009
               Submit your recordbooks to Gail Farmer; 3387 Route 737;                Kempton, PA 19529

STATEWIDE CALENDARS OF EVENTS:
Look at these calendars for events where you could set-up your trifold display, give a talk, or generally assist with an event. For any event, you will need to call the contact person in advance to arrange for your involvement. If you need free table space at one of the bigger sports shows, contact Gail Farmer.

PA Quality Deer Management Association

PA State Parks

PA Deer Association

Ruffed Grouse Society

PSU Natural Resource Extension

2007 Sports/Outdoor Shows Calendar

Annual Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show -- Harrisburg

Lehigh Valley Hunting and Fishing Extravaganza

PA Federation of Sportsmen's Club

Safari Club International, Youth Education Seminars at Cabelas in Hamburg, PA

PA Environmental Education Calendar

4-H clubs, PSU Cooperative Extension County Offices (find your local extension office, then click on 4H link on sidebar)

Events Calendar for Lancaster County

Bucks County Events and Activities

Cresson Township, Sankertown

Online guide to Hershey, Pennsylvania, The Sweetest Place On Earth

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania CVB : Calendar of Events

Indiana County Kiwanis: Indiana Pennsylvania

Fairs and Festivals of Greene County Pennsylvania

Western PA County Fairs

PA Environmental Education Centers

Delaware County Field and Stream Assoc.

PA Outdoor News, events listing

OTHER IDEAS:
Arrange to give your Powerpoint presentation or set-up your trifold display at a meeting of a local conservation organization. Here are some organizations to check out:

Audubon Chapters
Local branches of Quality Deer Management Association
4-H clubs, PSU Cooperative Extension County Offices
PA Sierra Club
PA Environmental Advisory Councils
PA Environmental Education Centers
Ruffed Grouse Society

SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:

Below is a list of organizations you may wish to volunteer with, you will need to contact them to discuss opportunities. I have listed WLA Instructors who work for some of these organizations and may be able to help you.

PA Audubon and chapters (WLA Instructor: Kim VanFleet)
Nature Conservancy
Wildlands Conservancy
Sierra Club
Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (WLA instructor: Merlin Benner)
Quality Deer Management Assoc. (QDMA) (WLA Instructor: TIm Smail)
PA Deer Association (contact Mike Creamer, 717-235-2727)
PA Federation of Sportsmen's Club
PA Environmental Education Centers
PA Game Commission, Regional Offices, (ask to speak to a WCO)

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Submit short articles to local conservation organization newsletters, such as 4H clubs, audubon chapters, QDMA Branches and others (see contacts above), and/or to some of the newsletters/web listings below:

PA Outdoor News
On Target, newsletter of the PA Federation of Sportsmens Club, deadline first of month for following month
The Outdoor Talk Network
The Outdoor Adventurer

PA OUTDOOR WRITERS:
Contact your local outdoor writer telling them about your camp experience and how it benefits PA youth, and ask them if they would be interested in interviewing you for an article.

To get a writer interested in your story, send him or her a press release as your initial contact, then follow-up with a phone call or email a week or so later. Here are two examples of a press release that you can use as a model:

Sample press releases

NOTE: Bear in mind that in these releases the "sell" is the program itself. For an article/release you write the "sell" is your involvement and experience in the program. It should be written in the first person and be more personal than the above examples.

PA Outdoor Writers Association (POWA)-- Send Gail Farmer your press release and she will forward it to POWA members in your region/County.

Our radio media instructor from camp, Gary Abdulah, has also offered internship opportunities at the PSU Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies at the College of Agriculture to WLA youth interested in natural science writing. If you are interested, contact him via email. This opportunity would earn you service points and media points for anything published.

PA OUTDOOR & LOCAL TELEVISION:

PA Outdoor Life, Northeastern PA

Greentreks Network -- Statewide

GOBOY TV (hunting) -- Statewide
contact: Wesley Tate, westate@gobotv

A Great Day Outdoors WEB TV -- Statewide

Berks Community Television -- Berks County

PA Television Station links

PA Public Television Network

PA RADIO:

Outdoor Talk Network (Statewide Coverage)

The Allegheny Front -- (Environmental Radio for Western PA)

Go Dirt Radio -- Environmental Radio (Statewide Coverage)

A Great Day Outdoors Radio -- Reading, Lebanon, and Lancaster

Find your local Public Radio Station

QUESTIONS? CONCERNS?
Contact: Gail Farmer
Program Coordinator
gfarmer AT piceweb.org
3387 Route 737
Kempton, PA 19529
610-756-3194 - office
570-245-8518 - cell

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