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20 tons of carbon dioxide reduced equates to 512 tree seedling grown for 10 years or one family balancing their carbon footprint.

3 wind farms could displace 1 coal plant.

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For Your Group  

Cardinal River Adventures has a limited number of special programs at no charge to qualifying student and senior groups. If you are a teacher or work with a seniors group in this area, call for information:

409-880-8907.

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River with Us.

Public Neches River tours are currently available leaving from Beaumont's Riverfront Park at 10:00 AM on Saturdays. Passengers accepted as space is available, but advanced tickets are recommended.

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Cardinal Neches River Adventures: Creating a world where everyone enjoys and protects the Neches River and all of its surrounding natural resources in Southeast Texas.

Music Echoes
Across the Neches

     The sweet sounds of a hammered dulcimer echoed across the Neches Saturday morning June 20 when a musical group from The Sweet Sounds Dulcimer House traveled up river on the Cardinal Neches River Adventures public tour.
     Linda and Barry Evans along with David Ellison played songs that entertained the passengers on the boat and also serenaded some of the wildlife floating up Ten Mile Creek just north of Beaumont.

Linda played a hammered dulcimer and her husband, Barry, a mountain dulcimer. For much of the concert, David Ellison accompanied on his guitar, but David is the 2006 & 2007 N. Louisiana Champion and the 2007 Texas Champion. Ms. Evans says the hammered dulcimer is the ancestor to our piano of today dating back to Old Testament. The Mountain Dulcimer originated in the United States in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1800s.
     Barry and Linda have recorded three CDs with their group, Back Porch Friends of Dulcimer Players. They have completed a Christmas Album, a general album of folk music and a gospel album. Their business is located at 11129 US HWY 90 West, Beaumont, TX 77713 with telephone number: 877-860-0848.
     Some of their recorded songs include: Amazing Grace, Southwind, Clinch Mountain Backstep, The Water is Wide, Ash Grove, Willifjord, Simple Gifts, Lost Rose (Linda Evans, 1995), Mississippi Sawyer, Garry Owen/Minstrel Boy, Shepherd's Wife Waltz, Bauerntanz/March of St. Timothy, Scotland the Brave/Cucharan's Cross, Blessed Assurance/Blessed Quietness, Road to Lisdoonvarna, Soldier's Joy, Whiskey Before Breakfast, South Calloway Waltz, Liberty, Angelina Baker, Missouri/Black Nag/Childgrove.
      Cardinal Neches River Adventures includes a special program on its public river tour on the third Saturday of each month. A schedule of their complete season of special programs can be found on the Web at:  http://lulearn.net/NewsLetter/
guestspeakers.htm

You can see the joy and pride of an
outdoor adventure in this child's smile.

Environmental
Education
Slipping

     Many researchers say that The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is contributing to an increasing environmental literacy gap. Its emphasis on testing for core subjects is causing many administrators to eliminate environmental education (EE) by reducing the amount of environmental education taking place in K-12 classrooms.
     Its emphasis on testing for core subjects is causing the lost of EE in favor of investing more resources in math and language arts, severely limiting instructional time for science and social studies, the traditional subjects in which EE is taught. To read some of the research on this topic go to the Web site: http://www.cbf.
org/Page.aspx?pid=687
     These administrators are ignoring the plethera of curriculum materials that are available that combine core curriculum elements with EE. Cardinal River Adventures and a number of state and national resource educator at our parks have available excellent curriculum at no or only a small cost to schools.
     Help counter the growing problem of "videophilia" -- the tendency for children, and adults, to spend more time with electronics than with nature. Visit the National Wildlife Federation's site and download the PDF file: Connecting Today's Kids with Nature [http://www.nwf.
org/kidsoutside/pdf/CKN_
full_optimized.pdf]. Here you will find many ways you can fight the Nature-Deficit Disorder our children face.

New NCLI Video
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