Great Swamp Conservancy News
(Town of Lenox, NY – May 2014) The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are nearly here. Just in time to enjoy some fun experiences in a country setting the Great Swamp Conservancy is offering a Nature Academy, a day camp experience for children in first through sixth grades. July 14 through 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., students will be entertained, challenged and educated through a day full of outdoor and inside activities designed to open the world of nature and all its wonders to today’s youth.
The GSC is pleased to have Julie Sherlock Fishman, wildlife biologist and educator, as the program director. Her professional resume includes numerous workshops and educational programs presented by the Onondaga County Federation of Sportsmen’s Club from 2002 through the present, Women in Nature education programs and workshops, continuing education classes and the annual Sportsmen’s Days Festival.
She has worked closely with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville since 2006, designing and conducting Gage Girls Day Camp. Also a docent for the museum, Fishman has collaborated on teacher and student programming and created interactive programs for visiting school groups.
As an independent environmental educator since 1996, Fishman creates and leads educational programs (public and private), classes, games, natural history interpretation and outdoor exploration in topics including bats, birds, flowers, insects, mammals and wetlands for various groups and organizations including the Great Swamp Conservancy, Green Lakes State Park, Clark Reservation, Girl Scouts, Ducks Unlimited-Green Wings and Becoming an Outdoors Woman.
From 2000-07, Fishman was an active education committee member and educator of the Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex, specializing in children’s activities.
Campers will bring their own lunch and drinks each day. There will be a minimum of 12 kids, maximum of 25. For more information, see their ad elsewhere in this publication, email the GSC at greatswampconservancy@gmail.com or call 315.697.2950.