New Skins added to GHF's Education Materials

Thanks to a generous donation from GHF member Michael Babbit of Oregon, GHF now has badger and beaver skins to add to our collection of education materials.

We are still looking for other tanned, native Kansas animal hides. If you have well-preserved mammal hides that you can donate to GHF, please email me! angie.babbit@gmail.com

Currently, if GHF needs animal skins for programs, we borrow them from the Museum of Natural History's education department. Their skins are fantastic, but it would be nice if we could acquire our own collection, since they usually need the skins back during the school year.

The summer reading program at the Lawrence Public Library was "Catch the Reading Bug," and we used that for our Rolling Prairie Learning Lab inspiration. This summer, the Museum loaned us many mounted insects for our programs. Pictured to the right are some Little Green Festival attendees taking a close look at the Museum's insects.

Alison Reber, program coordinator for the Learning Labs this summer, and her daughters caught many live insects for the children and their parents to look at.