This lesson plan for grades 9 - 12 will teach students to identify habitats in living, dead and decaying trees as well as understand the relationships between trees and the animals that inhabit them. Click here for the Trees as habitats lesson plan from the National Wildlife Federation.
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Photo of the Month: July 2026
A special sighting of a range-restricted monkey which I personally really wanted to see, the Geoffroy’s tamarin, that seemed to have a lot to say, in the Darién of Panama that the group enjoyed watchi
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Photo of the Month: June 2026
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