The joy of touching a living desert tortoise is evident for this little girl at the TNEF Family Wildlife Day at the Santa Rosa Plateau, Saturday Nov. 4, 2023. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
The Nature Education Foundation at the Santa Rosa Plateau announced its education programs continuing and expanding in 2024 in area elementary, middle and high schools following their strategic planning meeting Jan. 27.The purpose of TNEF is “educating and empowering our youth to appreciate, preserve and protect nature,” explained Ginger Greaves, TNEF director at the meeting in Wildomar with the Board of Directors and staff.For its first program this year TNEF invites local science teachers and other environmental educators to the Nature Education Resources Forum March 9 at the Cedar Dove Ranch in LaCresta to help teachers in the classroom and update the state’s environmental education programs. It will be the 4th annual NERF program for TNEF. Teachers must register for the f
