Ihad no idea our state offered a course by which an enrolled student could be certified as a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist. That is until last week when I was invited to participate in one of their programs by Citialy Weed, the Education Coordinator for the Brandywine Red Clay Alliance.

Weed asked me if I would be willing to teach a session on Creatures of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

My task would be to cover the unit on Pennsylvania mammals.

As an avid outdoorsman and retired high school English teacher (and since our Northbrook homestead is less than a mile away from the BRCA classroom), I agreed to act as an instructor. Then I immediately got to work assembling a PowerPoint presentation that covered topics ranging from adaptation to evolution by natural selection and descriptions of

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