EXETER Beatrice Cooper held up a cup of water to show off the tiny brook trout she was preparing to release into the Exeter River.
“I’m going to miss him,” the fourth-grader from Lincoln Street School said. “But I’m happy he’s going to be in the wild.”
Beatrice was among a group of students from teachers Keith Schmitt and Hallie Estle’s classes who helped raise brook trout this year. They started with about 200 eggs in December, which were then hatched, and carefully raised by the students, before the 40 strong who survived were ready to leave the tank for the river.
2021 Schoolyard Action Grants Awarded Throughout New Hampshire
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CONTACT: Kaitlyn Kelleher, NH Fish and Game Department: Kaitlyn.Kelleher@wildlife.nh.gov Ted Kendziora, US Fish and Wildlife Service: Ted Kendziora@fws.gov
April 8, 2020
Concord, NH – The Schoolyard Action Grant Team (Team) has awarded over $11,000 in small grants to schools throughout the Granite State. The selected institutions are working on outdoor classrooms, habitat areas, and pollinator gardens.
This year’s grant awards support a mix of projects including: the Montessori Schoolhouse of Cheshire County in Keene, which will use funding to create a pollinator garden; Gale River Cooperative Preschool in Bethlehem, which plans to develop a four-season trail with learning stations about native birds, habitat, and ecology; and Lincoln Street School in Exeter, which will utilize funds to create gardens designed for the monarch butterfly and