Conservation Outreach

YES Program School Outreach
Photo by Megan Bean

November 9, 2015

Evan O'Donnell, an Extension agent with the Forest and Wildlife Resource Center at Mississippi State University, teaches seventh-grade students from Armstrong Middle School in Starkville as part of the Youth Environmental Science Program. Called YES, the cooperative program between the MSU Extension Service, the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District and the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee Wildlife Refuge offers conservation education programming to students grades 3-8. By May 2016, plans are for YES programming to have reached 3,000 students in Oktibbeha County.