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CU holds Outdoor Classroom Institute at Clay Hill Memorial Forest

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From Campbellsville University

Campbellsville University's annual Outdoor Classroom Institute wasthis past week through Friday, June 24, 2011, at Clay Hill Memorial Forest, promoting conservation by increasing public awareness of the aesthetic recreational and economic importance of forests. CHMF offers sciencetraining for teachers and children.

The 158-acre educational andresearch woodland is being developed by Campbellsville University as aregional center for environmental education and research on easterndeciduous forests.



Clay Hill offers ongoing discovery walks for young children guided byprofessional naturalists. Kids activities begin by visitingClay Hill Memorial Forest online where you can see photos, read andeven listen to frogs in the neighborhood.

LOCATION: Clay Hill Memorial Forest, 7426 Old Lebanon RD,Campbellsville, KY, is located 26 miles from Columbia. From Campbellsville, take KY 55North to KY55/US 68 intersection, turn right, and go to Old LebanonAvenue. Turn left, or north onto Old Lebanon Avenue/KY 289. Clay HillMemorial Forest is located on the right, or east, side of the theRoad. For more information, contact (270) 789-5328.from Linda Waggener, Marketing and Media Relations Coordinator, Campbellsville University


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At Clay Hill Memorial Forest Outdoor Classroom



2011-06-24 - Photo by Linda Waggener. CU photo.
Campbellsville University's annual Clay Hill Memorial Forest Outdoor Classroom is under way. Attending are area school teachers, Clay Hill Memorial Forest staff and visiting children: Front row, from left: - Belinda D. Wilkins-Smith, Kentucky Certified Environmental Educator; Sheila Willis, Adair County High School; Amanda Long, (CU '99), Campbellsville Independent School; Traci Lee Boblitt; Shari Boblitt, Washington County; Mason Salyers; Rachel Taylor, Casey County High School; Cheryl May, Lebanon Middle School; and Alicia Bozela, part-time environmental education coordinator. Second row: Brenda Tungate, Rebecca Wood, Lebanon Middle School; Patricia Myers, (CU'76), Jackson County Board of Education; Bill Mason, (CU '97), Mercer County Senior High School; Tara Burkhead, Washington County; MaKenzi Burkhead; Jackie Allen, Casey County High School; Paula Mattingly, Washington County Middle School; Stacey G. Thomas, Taylor County High School; Tonya Hagan, Campbellsville Independent Schools; Marcia Sharp, Campbellsville Independent Schools; and Alexis Sharp.

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Clay Hill Memorial Forest is mapped, with informative signs



2011-06-25 - 7426 Old Lebanon RD, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. CU Photo.
Little Alexis Sharp points to Clay Hill Memorial Forest map. Paths and trails are well marked and informative

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CHMF: Bird ponders 1906 message of Anne McNeeley White



2011-06-25 - 7426 Old Lebanon RD, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. CU photo.
A bird seems to ponder a sign at Clay Hill, which has a quotation from a 1906 letter from Anne McNeeley White about sights on Clay Hill farm. It reads, "When spring comes up over the hills and through the woods, and the redbuds and dogwoods are abloom, and again in the fall when autumn has cast her rich mantle of scarlet and gold over the maples, and the oaks and the hickories. Oh, Johnny, it is a breathtaking sight and surely those who have seen it once will return to see it again. " -Ann McNeely White, 1906

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