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Netzin G Steklis, moderator

Writers' Roundup:
Exploring the Plight of
America's Free-Roaming Horses

March 12, 2011

Michael Blake won an Oscar for his film adaptation of his novel "Dances with Wolves." He is the author of "Twelve the King," a memorial based on the rescue of a captured wild horse stallion. He was joined by Deanne Stillman, ("Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West") and Edward de Steiguer ("Wild Horses of the West") to discuss the plight of free-roaming horses.

 


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Recon to Seri land near Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico
February 2011

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Homecoming "Back to School" alumni lecture
October 2010


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Germany-Sustainability
July 3-8, 2010
Watch video logs 1-6
for a youthful perspective on Germany's
past and present sustainability practices




Upcoming Events




Outdoor Environmental Education
Summer Camps 2011

Click here to see how
Empire Ranch /
Las Cienegas National Conservation Area has become a field classroom through
Wild About the Grasslands !

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Netzin G. Steklis
Adjunct Professor
University of Arizona


will again be teaching
The Natural History
of our Closest Relatives

  Anthropology364
Spring 2011

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H. Dieter Steklis
  Professor of Psychology
University of Arizona


will again be teaching
Animal Behavior
Psychology 411
Spring 2011










  Project Highlights

Human Nature ~



"Deadbeat dad"
"Father knows best"
"Like father like son"
"Daddy's little princess"

Our culture has spun a host of colorful concepts around the father-child relationship, but do they hold up beyond our species? Dieter & Netzin Steklis, two researchers from the University of Arizona explore this question.



Conservation ~

 Geocache  Monitoring
Youth stewardship of public lands




Education ~


7 Literacies Overview
Current US education aims to produce competitive players in a global marketplace. This seems to be resulting in a world of unhappy technicians, leading unexamined lives, working in a (failing) zero-sum global economic system.  Our aim is to provide a new educational framework with a very different goal:
Individuals thriving
in a globally sustainable way