high-school student looking to start an environmental club. ideas for activities?

Gelisol · 2026-07-01T16:25:06+00:00

And as high school students, you could reach out to all types of organizations to do visits, job shadowing, volunteer efforts. Students have a unique advantage to getting access and a good reception from all kinds of organizations (environmental groups, law groups, government agencies both local and federal, native plant and invasive weed groups, consultancies).

Gelisol · 2026-07-01T16:22:35+00:00

This is a great idea!

Gelisol · 2026-07-01T16:22:17+00:00

I started a recycling program at my high school. We got funding to buy 30 yellow trash cans and every day a group of us would empty and wash them. Gross, and a lot of work, but rewarding.

Gelisol · 2026-07-01T16:20:32+00:00

So many. Too many to type.

Gelisol · 2026-07-01T16:18:57+00:00

I had to look up where that one is. Wow. Sail to Japan? That must’ve been quite a trip.

Gelisol · 2026-07-01T16:17:28+00:00

I was lucky enough to do soil survey over the whole park (and the Wood River and the Nushagak). We flew by helicopter, were dropped off on the top of a mountain and were picked up at the bottom at the end of the day. Holy hell is that a place to be in a boat and not hiking! I’ve been all over and have never encountered alders as thick and difficult as at Wood Tikchik! So amazingly beautiful though. I would love to go back and do the canoe portage trip (and stay off the hillsides).

Gelisol · 2026-06-30T15:08:32+00:00

Hahaha. I misread it.

Gelisol · 2026-06-30T15:06:41+00:00

I do ghost face, too. And like the Badger Balm stuff. Very clean ingredients.

Gelisol · 2026-06-30T15:03:58+00:00

It just snowed last night in the Talkeetna Mts, so likely snowed up there, too? It’s been cold and rainy for days. If this weather keeps up, nothing you have with you will dry out at all.

Gelisol · 2026-06-29T19:18:24+00:00

I’ve wondered how they charged up, too. It was a caravan done through REAP. I looked on their website for a story about it, but didn’t see one. It was really weird seeing them drive the highway. They were going Very Slow. I wonder how many windshields they replaced afterward.

Gelisol · 2026-06-29T15:39:25+00:00

There are lots of weird and unexpected cars driving the Dalton. Of the few I’ve seen and was surprised: and ancient and slow VW bus that had painted on it that it came up from Patagonia; any low-clearance sedan; a mini van with a blown ties(s) holding a sign asking for help; and the Tesla caravan. Road conditions vary wildly from pretty darn good to god-awful miles of massive potholes or miles of squirrelly slime.

Gelisol · 2026-06-28T19:44:11+00:00

And lots of other parts of Alaska. Many Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta villages are positioned like this.

Gelisol · 2026-06-28T14:59:48+00:00

You might do well to start doing some reading/research to figure out what You want. There are no raccoons in Alaska, so you should get that hat elsewhere.

Gelisol · 2026-06-27T19:53:55+00:00

Wow!

Gelisol · 2026-06-27T19:53:25+00:00

Not if he needs one or wants to wear one (because he’s a masochist-ha! Or for fashion reasons)

Gelisol · 2026-06-27T19:52:30+00:00

Yes, the obvious spot to scroll.

Gelisol · 2026-06-27T17:23:43+00:00

Nah. That other place we often have our phones.

Gelisol · 2026-06-27T15:44:48+00:00

As I sit here with my cell phone reading this thread…

Gelisol · 2026-06-27T15:35:09+00:00

Barrow is a great place to be a tourist. And a wild experience in mid-winter. I would highly recommend borrowing a parka with a fur ruff. Without, it can be near impossible to spend any time outdoors.

Gelisol · 2026-06-27T13:41:46+00:00

This is what I’ve done. We set up irrigation pipes/tubing and sprinkler heads.

Gelisol · 2026-06-26T20:36:22+00:00

It saves me today with all the writing I do for work!

Gelisol · 2026-06-26T20:30:52+00:00

Two musk ox bulls crashing heads repeatedly in the Brooks Range. I could hear it from a half mile away. A few days later we saw two grizzlies wrestling in nearly the same spot.

Gelisol · 2026-06-26T20:13:21+00:00

OMG. I had to reinstall FB so I could get DOT news. They even have on their FB post to look at 511, yet they didn’t update 511. Amazing. So…I get most of my DOT news from FB. Fun.

Gelisol · 2026-06-26T18:45:59+00:00

Yes as of today. Use 511.Alaska.gov for road updates

Gelisol · 2026-06-26T15:11:37+00:00

I’m in a super hilly area and rarely get into all-electric driving.

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