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Alaska Grant Summaries
2006 Council Grants
2007 Council Grants
2006 Council Grants:
Girl Scouts of Susitna Council
Project Title: Linking Girls to the Chugach National Forest Through Recreation, Fisheries, and Ecology Field Projects
Project Description: Girl Scouts will assist Forest Service technicians and scientists in a variety of land stewardship projects. The girls will help restore the ecological balance and protect salmon spawning habitat to areas affected by invasive plants and river erosion as well as improve the recreational use of trails. The girls will clear brush along the Trail of Blue Ice and Byron Glacier Trail, pull invasive plants at the Moose Flats Day Use Area, and plant native trees, shrubs, and grasses at the Granite Creek Recreation Area.
Federal or Sate Collaborating Agency: USDA Forest Service-Chugach National Forest, Glacier Ranger District
Actual Number of Girl Scouts Served: 120
2007 Council Grants:
Girl Scouts of Susitna Council
Project Title: Linking Girls to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Project Description: Older girls will help develop, pilot and refine a new program with activity kit and patch for underrepresented girls on the Kenai Peninsula. Girls will incorporate existing Girl Scout and Kenai National Wildlife Refuge conservation curriculum for all seasons and infuse learning by doing and cooperative learning activities that focus on environmental education, outdoor skills development, service learning, and career exploration for various age levels. The kit will be available for leaders to check out in years ahead and used as a model to develop additional LGTTL kits for the other 15 national Wildlife Refuges in Alaska.
Federal or Sate Collaborating Agency: USDI Fish and Wildlife Service – Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Actual Number of Girl Scouts Served: 100
Tongass Alaska Girl Scout Council
Project Title: Thinking Day in Southeast Alaska: Exploring Personal Watersheds
Project Description: Girls will combine the World Thinking Day 2008 theme of water with Linking Girls to the Land activities. Using an adapted theme of “My Personal Watershed,” girls will engage in watershed exploration, water quality sampling, streamside restoration as well as learning by doing activities that foster an appreciation of their unique watershed. Girls will research ecosystems around the world to understand water-related issues that girls from distant lands face. The council will reach out to Girl Guides in Senegal in order to understand water-related issues facing girls living in arid regions of the world. Girls will also obtain knowledge, skills and experience that will empower them to take individual action to protect and restore their own watershed as well as environments in other parts of the world.
Federal or Sate Collaborating Agency:USDA Forest Service – Tongass National Forest:
USDI National Park Service – Misty Fjords National Monument
Actual Number of Girl Scouts Served: 280