Non-formal Environmental Education at the State Level

Section B, Question Two

What forms of coordination are there among non-formal educators? (e.g. newsletter, statewide organizations for interpreters or administrators,...)

Alabama - Newsletters include: Alabama Water Watch, Common Ground, Environmental Educ. Association of Alabama. Also the EE Association of Alabama annual conference, other EE meetings.

Alaska - ANROE and newsletter, USFWS for refuge managers, Alaska Center for the Environment, Northern AK Environmental Coalition.

Arizona - Newsletters include those of the State Association, State Agency, Audubon, Sierra Club, Phoenix EE Networking Breakfast, AALE, and others.

Arkansas - Unreported.

California - California Outdoor School Association, Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (limited coordination). Chapter of the National Association of Interpretation; Southwest Marine Education Association; California Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Colorado - Colorado Association of EE will be the lead organization.

Connecticut - COEEA, Southern New England Marine Educators Association.

Delaware - Brandywine Museum Education Roundtable.

Florida - RSP and LEEF newsletters. Also, LEEF has begun a network for centers, and ran a pre-conference workshops in 1994. ANCA will become more involved over the next year.

Georgia - EE Alliance conferences and newsletters.

Hawaii - Hawaii EE Association annual statewide conferences and periodic workshops/meetings.

Idaho - Newsletters.

Illinois - EEAI as non-profit with statewide membership and annual meeting.

Indiana - EE Association, Regional NAI, organization newsletters; ICE, Hoosier Association of Science Teachers, Inc.

Iowa - ICEC; IAN, a statewide organization, publishes a quarterly newsletter and holds three meetings each year.

Kansas - Newsletters, KCAEE state programs such as Project WILD, Aquatic WILD, and Learning Tree.

Kentucky - The Kentucky Environmental Education Council has an Interagency Committee comprised of 15 state agencies involved in EE.

Louisiana - No organized coordination except Interagency Committee; some newsletters.

Maine - Involvement with MEEA and Earthminders.

Maryland - Newsletters from MAEOE, Project WILD, various outdoor education centers, state education agency “briefing.”

Massachusetts - Unreported.

Michigan - Michigan Alliance of Environmental and Outdoors Educators; M.E.E.N.

Minnesota - MN Naturalist Association; MN Association for EE; DNR “Interconnection” newsletter.

Mississippi - Informal correspondence; newsletters; MS Science Teachers Association.

Missouri - Nature center newsletters, MO Association of Interpreters.

Montana - Personal contact.

Nebraska - Unreported.

Nevada - Coordination through Nevada Natural Resources Education Council.

New Hampshire - NH Environmental Educators (organization with newsletter, meetings).

New Jersey - ANJEE

New Mexico - The state EE association, EEANM, publishes a quarterly newsletter in cooperation with several state agencies and non-profits.

New York - Unreported.

North Carolina - Newsletters, statewide organizations for interpreters.

North Dakota - Currently in infancy.

Ohio - EECO, Ohio Parks and Recreation Association, Ohio Museum Association, Ohio Chapter of the Association of Interpretive Naturalists.

Oklahoma - Project Learning Tree, Project WILD.

Oregon - NAI is active, museum educators, science teachers.

Pennsylvania - PAEE newsletter.

Rhode Island - RI EE Association, Geography Alliance, Audubon, Norman Bud Sanctuary, Save the Bay.

South Carolina - Statewide organization.

South Dakota - Statewide EE organization (EECSD) holds an annual conference and publishes a newsletter three times per year.

Tennessee - Several partner groups, conferences, TEEA, E-Mail network, TEEA Homepage, facilitator training.

Texas - TOEA publishes four newsletters and holds one state workshop each year; TAEE publishes four newsletters and holds two workshops each year; and NAI presents state report in regional newsletter, as well as hosting an annual workshop by SFA Student Chapter.

Utah - Newsletter.

Vermont - Newsletters; two meetings per year.

Virginia - VAEE/DEQ Annual EE conference, Outdoor Recreation Association, regional meetings.

Washington - EEAW has many members from the non-formal education community.

West Virginia - None.

Wisconsin - WI Association for EE has a nature section associated with it and holds meetings one to two times each year.; WAEE Bulletin provides space for articles from the nature/environmental center section. Our state newsletter, “EE News,” has information of use to the non-formal sector.

Wyoming - Individual newsletter, WAEE newsletter, WY Interdisciplinary Conference, WY Association of EE.

To obtain contact information for state EE associations listed above and affiliated with the North American Association for Environmental Education, go to the NAAEE website.