Cartersville, Georgia Employees Help Spruce Up Local School’s ‘Outdoor Living Classroom’
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — The Cartersville Brewery Environmental Conservation Team—a group of volunteers from the brewery and the resource recovery farm—worked with students and teachers from Kingston Elementary School in late September to revitalize trails and outdoor classroom space at the school's "Living Classroom."
Employees from the brewery and resource recovery farm donated their time and talents as part of “National Public Lands Day,” sponsored by the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC). The WHC is a nonprofit group that helps large landowners, particularly corporations, manage their unused lands in an ecologically sensitive manner for the benefit of wildlife.
The A-B Environmental Conservation Team, Kingston teachers, parents and students, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts re-mulched footpaths, cleaned woodland amphitheatres and repaired and monitored nest boxes along the nature trail.
The spruce-up enables students and teachers in the Bartow County schools to enjoy their learning opportunities in the natural environment even more. A-B employees and Kingston teachers and parents led the following teams and activities:
“Neat Nesters”: These students refurbished and cleaned bird nest boxes. Activities included replacing boards, nails, etc.
“Bold Bat Box Builders”: Students built several bat boxes. Bat boxes and bat brood boxes are a simple, ecology-safe, answer to mosquitoes and other insect problems.
“Mighty Mulchers”: These students placed mulch along trails.
"Dynamite Dust Busters": These students removed dirt, dust, and leaves from decks at the outdoor amphitheaters.
“Terrific Trailblazers”: Students will remove sticks, leaves and other debris on the trails.
“Peppy Planters”: Students planted native trees near the entrance to the amphitheatres.
Anheuser-Busch is proud to partner with some of the nation’s leading conservation organizations, including the Wildlife Habitat Council.
The Cartersville brewery has been WHC certified since 2004 and recently received the Wild Turkey Management award. This award is presented in cooperation with the National Wild Turkey Federation to a WHC member company for incorporating outstanding wild turkey management into its on-site habitat program.
To obtain WHC certification, facilities must form a team of dedicated employee volunteers to implement conservation projects specified by a WHC biologist. Once the projects are completed, the team is then responsible for documenting the benefits to wildlife. After the projects have been in place for a year, a WHC biologist revisits the site to complete the certification process.
The Cartersville brewery’s resource recovery farm also has been certified by the WHC and has been designated as a “Certified Lands for Learning” site, the only site in Georgia to achieve this recognition.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — The Cartersville Brewery Environmental Conservation Team—a group of volunteers from the brewery and the resource recovery farm—worked with students and teachers from Kingston Elementary School in late September to revitalize trails and outdoor classroom space at the school's "Living Classroom."
Employees from the brewery and resource recovery farm donated their time and talents as part of “National Public Lands Day,” sponsored by the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC). The WHC is a nonprofit group that helps large landowners, particularly corporations, manage their unused lands in an ecologically sensitive manner for the benefit of wildlife.
The A-B Environmental Conservation Team, Kingston teachers, parents and students, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts re-mulched footpaths, cleaned woodland amphitheatres and repaired and monitored nest boxes along the nature trail.
The spruce-up enables students and teachers in the Bartow County schools to enjoy their learning opportunities in the natural environment even more. A-B employees and Kingston teachers and parents led the following teams and activities:
“Neat Nesters”: These students refurbished and cleaned bird nest boxes. Activities included replacing boards, nails, etc.
“Bold Bat Box Builders”: Students built several bat boxes. Bat boxes and bat brood boxes are a simple, ecology-safe, answer to mosquitoes and other insect problems.
“Mighty Mulchers”: These students placed mulch along trails.
"Dynamite Dust Busters": These students removed dirt, dust, and leaves from decks at the outdoor amphitheaters.
“Terrific Trailblazers”: Students will remove sticks, leaves and other debris on the trails.
“Peppy Planters”: Students planted native trees near the entrance to the amphitheatres.
Anheuser-Busch is proud to partner with some of the nation’s leading conservation organizations, including the Wildlife Habitat Council.
The Cartersville brewery has been WHC certified since 2004 and recently received the Wild Turkey Management award. This award is presented in cooperation with the National Wild Turkey Federation to a WHC member company for incorporating outstanding wild turkey management into its on-site habitat program.
To obtain WHC certification, facilities must form a team of dedicated employee volunteers to implement conservation projects specified by a WHC biologist. Once the projects are completed, the team is then responsible for documenting the benefits to wildlife. After the projects have been in place for a year, a WHC biologist revisits the site to complete the certification process.
The Cartersville brewery’s resource recovery farm also has been certified by the WHC and has been designated as a “Certified Lands for Learning” site, the only site in Georgia to achieve this recognition.