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SNAP's newsletter, SNAP Shots, contains timely and relevant information, activities, and resources to assist you in your work in your nature area. It has been published three times a year since 1994. To browse article from a particular issue, choose the date from the list below, or browse all the article titles by simply scrolling down to the bottom of this page. You can read each issue, article-by -article, by clicking on any title. Many issues are also available for download in PDF format. Enjoy!
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Spring 2001
- Lasting Lessons
- Connections Grant Schools Update
- What's Happening to the SNAP Website?
- Where Can We Go Now?
- We Couldn't Have Done Anything Without Them!
- SNAP Schools: Grants Awarded 1991-2001
- A Look At One School's Journey
- Monitoring Focus: Sampler
- An Inspiration
- Treasurer Chests for Teachers
- Monitoring Focus: Birds
- Connections Workshop
- more...Parkers Prairie Courtyard
- SNAP announcements
Download the Winter 2001 issue of SNAP Shots in PDF format
- As Environments Change...The Only Constant is Change
- Sustainability: Is It Possible in Your Nature Area?
- Announcements
- Monitoring Focus: Insects
Download the Fall 2000 issue of SNAP Shots in PDF format
Spring 2000
- HMMMM...
- Congratulations, Connections Grant Recipients
- EIC- Environment as an Integrating Concept
- Site Profile: Hermantown
- Where in the World is Praire Woods Elementary
- Monitoring Focus: Atmosphere and Climate
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Winter 2000
- SNAP Staff Award Winner: Prairie Woods Elementary
- Attracting Wildlife in Winter
- Monitoring Focus
- Upcoming Events
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Fall 1999
- Hear Ye, Hear Ye…SNAP Announces New Grant Program
- Oh Did You Know, Did You Know?
- Monitoring Focus
- Documenting Your Nature Area: Identifying patterns, monitoring change
- Mapmaking with Children: Developing a Sense of Geography and Place
- Looking At The Land : Building a sense of place using historical documents
- Online Feature Article- Searching for a sense of place using historical document
Michele Koehler, 1998-1999 SNAP Graduate Intern - Migration Monitoring at Hawk Ridge
- A Big THANKS
- Announcing SNAP’s new grant for ecological problem solving: CONNECTIONS GRANTS
- Other Opportunities
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Spring 1999
- Nielsen Accepts New Role
- Winds of Change
- 1999-2000 SNAP Projects Grants Awarded
- Biome Focus: Below the Biomes
- Life on the Move
- 1999 Midwest EE Conference: "At the Crossroads"
- Nature Area Maitenance Conference
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Winter 1999
- Life In Winter's Blanket of Ice and Snow
- Winter is the time for stories...
- Winter Projects : Outdoor Seating in Your Nature Area
- GLOBE: An Internet Collaboration Between Science and Education
- Biome Focus: Above the Biomes
- "At the Crossroads" 1999 Midwest Environmental Education Conference
- NSET: Natural Science Enrichment for Teachers
- SNOW
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Fall 1998
- SNAP Receives Blandin Grant
- 1997-2000 Partnership School Update
- A Look back at Year One of SNAP's Three Year Partnership Program
- SNAP Online
- NSET: Natural Science Enrichment for Teachers, Fall 1998
- Biome Focus: The Natural Vegetation of Minnesota
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Spring 1998
- Spanning the Millenium: Partnership Schools Selected
- Did Spring SNAP? Technology in the Nature Area
- Thirty-One SNAP Project Grants Awarded
- Mouse's Ears
- Biome Focus: Coniferous Forests
- SNAP Presents School Nature Areas Pre-Conference Workshop
Winter 1998
- A Minnesota School Nature Areas Workshop
- Other Upcoming Workshops
- SNOW-1998
- Book Review: The Snow Booklet: A Guide to the Science, Climatology, and Measurement of Snow in the United States
- Following Fall, 1997: A Collaborative Project with Hill City School
- Triton High School Nature Area Project Receives Award
- Seed Collecting and Planting: Chosen Valley Public Schools
- Snowshoes: Walking Through Winter
- Biome Focus: Winter Prairies
Fall 1997
- SNAP Partnership Grants: Create a Three-Year Partner
- SNAP Project Grants: Help Students Take Action For the Environment
- Technology and Your Nature Area
- SNAP Field Desk
- Wildlife in Winter
- Biome Focus: Deciduous Forests
- Coming Soon
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Spring 1997
- Partnership Schools: Selected for Three-Year Program
- Thirty SNAP Project Grants Awarded
- Bemidji Middle School's Nature Area
- Biome Focus: Wetlands
- Upcoming Events
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Winter 1997
- SNAP Regionalization: The University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center
- SNOW
- Cotton's School Forest
- Biome Focus: Coniferous Forest
- Spring NSET
- DNR Grant Opportunities
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Fall 1996
- The SNAP Evolution: Better Ways to Serve Schools
- SNAP Project Grants Available
- Environmental Education and the Internet
- The Minnesota Graduation Standards, Inquiry, and Your Nature Area
- Biome Focus: Prairies
Spring 1996
- Mississippi Headwaters River Watch
- 1996-1997 Partnership Schools
- 1996-1997 Environmental Action Project Grants Awarded
- Washed Away by Water Curriculum
- Watershed Address
- Winter and Wildlife
Winter 1996
Fall 1995
- Resource Review
- Why Go Native?
- Fall Insects
- Spreading the News of Your Success
- Schoolyard Support Around the World
Spring 1995
- Students At Hill City
- Exploring School Nature Areas Video
- MN School Forest Program
- Field Guides
- MN Association of EE
Winter 1995
Fall 1994
- Fabulous Fungi Alert
- Site Development Resources
- Stillwater High School: An Environmental Learning Site
- Minnesota Tree Trust
Winter 1994