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Our Latest Story: Biologist Inspires a “Sense of Wonder” in Southern California’s Urban Children


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USFWS Biologist Inspires a "Sense of Wonder" in Southern California's Urban Children

Digging in the Dirt: Service biologist Michael Glenn gives students a lession about the coastal dune ecosystem on a field trip to a Ventura beach. Credit: Ashley Spratt/USFWS

Digging in the Dirt: Service biologist Michael Glenn gives students a lesson about the coastal dune ecosystem on a field trip to a Ventura beach. Credit: Ashley Spratt/USFWS

Michael Glenn has a knack for getting kids to dig in the dirt. It's a character trait few possess in an era of on-demand television, cell phone games, and dwindling green spaces.


By Ashley Spratt

November 16, 2016

This year, on his tenth anniversary with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, biologist Michael Glenn was honored by the agency with the nomination for the regional Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Award, which recognizes individuals who embody the storytelling legacy of Rachel Carson, who more than three decades ago inspired an entire generation to become stewards of our environment.

He lives and works in one of the most heavily urbanized areas in the country, just 66 miles north of Los Angeles. But the patchwork of agricultural fields, highways, and residential and commercial development, the coastal and inland cities of Ventura County are also surrounded by the wilds of the Los Padres National Forest and Santa Monica Mountains, and within eyesight of the Channel Islands that rise up from the Pacific Ocean just a few miles off shore.

 

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