Involving Youth: Utopia Conservation Area as a Conservation Classroom 

Utopia Conservation Area offers opportunities for field-based learning for schools and communities along the Skagit River. It is a popular site for Skagit Land Trust’s Engaging Youth in Conservation Classrooms program, which provides hands-on learning experiences through field-based education and stewardship projects for students in Skagit County.

Photograph credit: North Cascades Institute staff. 

The Kulshan Creek Neighborhood program is a unique partnership between the Mount Vernon Police Department, Catholic Housing Services of Washington, and Skagit Land Trust. In June of 2018, participating families visited Utopia for a day of field ecology and exploration.

Photograph credit: North Cascades Institute staff. 

Skagit Land Trust’s Conservation Classroom program invites educators to use Trust properties for experiential learning in a natural setting. These experiences will help engage students in the natural sciences by teaching many components of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) curriculum. Promoting a sense of place, connection, and a lifelong stewardship ethic. Skagit Land Trust has developed educational curriculums and necessary materials that can be checked out by teachers free of charge.

Teachers are invited to bring their students to Utopia for field trips. For more information see our Youth Education page.

Photograph credit (above and below): North Cascades Institute staff.