Schedule For Adventure Girls of Piscataquis County

 The 2010 Adventure Girls of Piscataquis County is full!!
If you are interested in the 2011 program, please go to the 2011 online registration form

Fall 2010 Schedule of Adventures:

Join Shannon on Saturday, October 9^th for a Wildlife Identification & Outdoor Tracking Adventure !
For our first adventure, join Shannon LeRoy, on Saturday October 9th for a Wildlife Identification & Outdoor Tracking Adventure!  In the first portion of this adventure, hosted at the the Monson Community Center, Shannon, a Registered Maine Guide, will introduce girls to charts and other wildlife tracking tools.  A bus will then transport girls to Mathew's Farm on Elliotsville Road to explore the great outdoors through the eyes of a certified wildlife tracker.

Adventures in Horticulture with Hannah on Saturday, October 23^rd at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension! 

Come learn about general garden culture, why the field of horticulture is becoming more important in our global world, and ways everyone can make a difference by growing beautiful gardens. The Adventure Girls will have an opportunity to learn, hands-on, the “art and science” of plant propagation and everyone will take a plant home with them that they have chosen to propagate.
Location: UMaine Cooperative Extension Piscataquis County Office, 165 East Main St. Dover-Foxcroft 

Exploring Wellness & Nutrition with Sydney on Saturday, November 6^th at the YMCA in Dover-Foxcroft!

Learn exercises on posture and breathing, followed by activities on nutrition, making your own healthy and delicious smoothies. Sydney and our other Adventure Women presenters will also engage Adventure Girls participants in discussion about being and working in non-traditional fields related, especially those related to math and science.

Adventures in Soils, Bogs & Forests on Saturday, December 4that thePiscataquis Soil & Water Conservation DistrictOfficeinDover-Foxcroft!

Hands on learning about soils, how they are made up and what Soil Conservationist, Leslie Nelson of the Natural Resources Conservation Service does.  Then strap on your boots for a guided walk into the bogs and forests of the area with Beth Postlewaite, PCSWCD Board Supervisor and the Executive Director of The Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands where she will discuss the soils and forestry in the field.  If weather conditions are not adequate, we will postpone until Saturday, December 11th or later.   

FMI  Contact PENQUIS at 564-7116
FMI  Contact Sydney at (207) 717-9143   

Or PiscataquisResources.org