Spring and Summer Activities Kept Us Busy!

TuCARE didn’t let a tight budget slow us down this spring and summer. In the month of May, our busiest school tour month, TuCARE toured more than 700 school kids from Tuolumne and neighboring counties. We had booths at both the Calaveras County Fair and the Mother Lode Fair. We facilitated “A Day on the Farm” with over 200 preschool and kindergarten students at Summerville High School with their FFA students. We also worked with Don and Laurel Rumsey of Mother Lode Ranch to help facilitate a ranch trip for close to 200 2nd and 3rd graders from Tuolumne County schools. (Thanks Again, Don and Laurel!)

We gave several presentations to adult service organizations, participated in Leadership Tuolumne County, conducted horseback fieldtrips into the Emigrant, attended the National Forest Counties and Schools Coalition Conference in Reno, Nevada, hosted “Senior Day in the Woods” with Modesto Junior College at Bob Kinsinger’s Kinland Forest (Thanks Again, Bob!), hosted a Community Forest Forum and a Safety Net Faire, conducted a 2-day fieldtrip for the Tuolumne County Forestry Institute for Teachers, attended both the Tuolumne County Farm Bureau and the Calaveras County Farm Bureau annual dinners and auctions, coordinated and hosted a 2-day workshop for American Stewards of Liberty (formerly American Land Foundation and Stewards of Liberty) with regional county representatives, supervisors, and organization leaders, and we also made time to attend Tuolumne County Board of Supervisor meetings, held meetings with our elected officials, and planned for the upcoming school tour season.