The Nature Education Foundation at the Santa Rosa Plateau announced this year’s Nature Education Resource Forum (NERF) for teachers and interested nature educators will be on March 9 at the Cedar Dove Ranch in La Cresta.This year, the Riverside County Office of Education is involved in the promotion and planning of the event, with their science STEM administrator as the key speaker. The NERF theme is “Make the Five Come Alive, which focuses on providing information to help teachers and other nature educators teach their students about the five California Environmental Education Standards.There will be five workshops to coincide with the state’s standards. Each workshop will be facilitated by Marianne Lancaster, TNEF education director, three science teachers and possibly the
