FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) In ABC30 s segment, Education Spotlight, Action News Anchor Landon Burke will talk with Merced County Office of Education (MCOE) officials about some of the biggest topics in education.
Camp Green Meadows has been a North Valley fixture for almost 60 years. Landon Burke spoke with the principal of the camp s outdoor school, Bob Bassett.
He discussed the program s benefit to local kids and how they re getting by in the pandemic.
Landon: Bob, so first of all, give me a little bit of background. What is Camp Green Meadows?
Bob: We are about a mile and a half from the southern entrance of Yosemite. We re at 5,000 feet. There s a little bit of snow around us right now that s leftover. And we are an outdoor residential science school, so kids, mostly sixth graders, come up to us. They live with us for a week and we teach them science, using the forest as the book, as the classroom. So instead of going, open your book to page 75, we re going to learn about decom