FUNDING AND PRICES

Outdoor School Funding from the State of Oregon

Outdoor School funding is available for 5th and 6th-grade students. The hybrid programs offered this year for the “Reimagining Resiliency: Building Community Through Ecology” Fall in the Field satisfy these funding requirements. Visit the Oregon Extension Website for more information or contact Amy Hoffman, Southern Oregon Regional Coordinator, at amy.hoffman@oregonstate.edu.

Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI) Funding

The Oregon Forest Resources Institute is dedicated to advancing public understanding of forests, forest management, and forest products, and encouraging sound forestry through landowner education.

OFRI recognizes the effectiveness of field studies and wishes to support classroom teachers’ forest education efforts. OFRI may be able to provide transportation funds, on a case-by-case basis, to classes whose opportunities to participate in such forestry-related studies are otherwise limited.

The theme for Fall in the Field 2021, “Reimagining Resiliency: Building Community Through Ecology”, includes various lessons that will educate students about forest ecology. Some of the topics these lessons will cover include fire ecology within forest environments, forest management, resource diversity within a forest, and abiotic effects on a forest ecosystem.

The online application for OFRI funding can be found here. Additional information can be found on the OFRI Website.

Please note that OFRI funds may not be used if the program is already being funded by Outdoor School funding from the state of Oregon.

The following are the 2021 prices for each program offered by Fall in the Field:

• Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Day Program: $45 registration fee + SOU 11% fee. Due to generous support from the BLM, programming at CSNM is offered free of charge
• Rogue River Preserve Day Program: $10 per student + $20 group registration fee + SOU 11% fee
• Two-Day Willow Witt: $22 per student ($11 per day) + $20 group registration fee + + SOU 11% fee
• Hybrid Program Prices: The sum of one Monument day program and one Willow Witt program

Please note our programs are subject to an 11% SOU processing fee. Fall in the Field is a not-for-profit program.