In its second round of "Alumni Awards," three past participants of EPI's conservation education courses receive cash awards to launch their own unique conservation projects.
Ecology Project International received a $20,000 grant from the National Forest Foundation that will fund involvement of youth from Montana and the US in conservation projects and scientific research in the Gallatin National Forest in western Montana.
A select group of nine high school students from the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador will participate in field research and habitat restoration with conservation education non-profit Ecology Project International (EPI).
Scott Pankratz of Missoula, Montana, has been selected as one of three recipients of the 2010 Blanche Hornbeck Award for Excellence in Nature Education.