Invader Crusade Award

From: Jon Reisenbuechler
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:05 PM
Subject: 2006 invader crusader awards

I received my masters degree in natural resources education from UWSP in 2003. I live in Manitowoc. One of my classes with Dan Sivek, I believe NR 705 - Environmental Issues and Actions - gave me the background information and the inspiration to use Invasives and exotics as the basis of my wildlife elective course. I was nominated for the 2006 invader crusader award and won in June. The following is the excerpt from their website:

Rhonda Reisenbuechler, L. B. Clarke Middle School, Two Rivers; Rhonda was nominated for her work as a middle school teacher where she created a new elective course last year that teaches students about invasive species and provides them hands-on experience. Her eighth-grade students have had the opportunity of raising and releasing the purple loosestrife-eating beetles and learning about the gypsy moth, as well as learning about many other invasive species. Her class is becoming popular and it looks as though she’ll be teaching this hands-on course for eighth-graders for years to come.

Let me know if you want any more information.

For more information, please contact: Tim Byers, Outreach Program Manager, Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education, Room 110 College of Natural Resources, UW-Stevens Point, Stevens Point WI 54481. You can e-mail Tim at tbyers@uwsp.edu or call 715-346-4176.