This years Great Basin Kids Workshop was a huge success. With 7 participants from Ely, Baker and the surrounding area we had even more fun this last year. The weather was warm and sunny up in Great Basin Park and all of the kids came eager to learn and ready to have fun.

Participants grades 3 through 8 learned about all different types of animals in the Great Basin and their relation to their environment. We learned about mammels, reptiles and even invertibrates in the stream. We were extra careful not to distrub the critters but spent quite a while observing them through microscopes. The group played a game to learn about the bark beetle and what the park is doing to try and combat the problem. Each kid had fun and went away a little more knowledgable about the environment.

Each participant was able to go home with a handmade snake wind chime, toad house, and like last year a bag of awareness goodies provided by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest fire prevention program and ENLC.

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