Programs
Get outdoors and explore the natural world with the Pennsylvania
Institute for Conservation Education. We offer direct learning
experiences exploring wild landscapes of Pennsylvania eco-regions
while helping individuals feel comfortable roaming and discovering
the fields, forests, rivers and streams, and lakes that
are our primary classroom.
 PICE
programs are field-based and the naturalist tradition defines
how you’ll spend your time with us. You’ll learn
in small groups and in a self-paced supportive environment.
Instructors teach students skills that they can use to explore
other places, including the environment of their own communities
and backyards.
The Institute serves students of all ages by offering:
The comprehensive nature of PICE involves partnering with
an array of leading conservation professionals, field naturalists,
ecologists, biologists, authors and educators. Institute
classes cover topics ranging from ecology, geology, and
botany to nature writing and sketching to honing your outdoor
skills.
Program locations and accommodations vary from nature
centers, public and private parks and forestlands as well
as camps, lodges, private resorts and Inns throughout the
region.
 Our
educational programs offer academic, professional and personal
benefits to a variety of audiences. PICE believes that people
need intimate, informed contact with the natural world in
order to value and conserve wild landscapes that sustain
our communities. The Institute’s guiding philosophy
is that experience teaches best. Interdisciplinary and innovative
in its approach, the Institute:
- Teaches the convergence of natural and cultural history,
science, literature and the arts
- Affirms human history as integral to the history of
landscapes
- Encourages exploration, reflection and stewardship
through immersion in the outdoors
- Promotes connectivity and respect of people and the
broader community of life
One of PICE’s primary objectives is to bring people
together for dialogue and cooperation to effect positive
change and growth. Programs include educating specialized
groups, young people and the general public on ecology and
natural science related topics, and assisting communities
across the Commonwealth plan for a healthier, sustainable
environment.
To the children
To all the children
To the children who swim beneath
the waves of the sea, to those who
live in
the soils of the Earth, to the children
of the flowers
in the meadows and the trees in the
forest, to
all those children who roam over the
land
and the winged ones who fly with the
winds,
to the human children too, that all
the children
may go together into the future in
the full
diversity of their regional communities.
- Thomas Berry
Philosopher
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