Argyle Land Ethic Academy
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 At the beginning of the school year, the Argyle School Board voted 5-0 to establish a new charter school with a conservation land ethic emphasis.  The program, open to juniors and seniors from Argyle and neighboring school districts, will run half days and start this fall.  Some slots remain to be filled.  Jeff Eastlick will be the lead teacher with other help from Mary Barr and several other faculty.  A great deal of support has come from the Argyle Rod & Gun Club and the Local Pheasants Forever Chapter.  Some of the curriculum will come from the Leopold Education Project and be largely local project based.

     ALEA students plus a couple other seniors from AHS recently (this August) got to participate in a special UW Geology Project called "Caving for Bones"  They got to camp out for a week at Cave of the Mounds near Blue Mound. 

During the days they got to explore and then actually do diggings for bones and teeth in a newly discover cave just north of Blue Mounds.  After 2 days of digging in the newly discovered large cave the students got to wash the dirt samples with water

and then the samples were dried for a future research project.

One of our many field trips included a stop at Green's Cemetery a civil war era cemetery which has remained a high quality prairie remnant.  Prior to leaving the group read Aldo Leopolds's "A Prairie Birthday"

Building more racks for the plants in the greenhouse.  We are growing over 100 species of prairie plants in the green house

Justin and Mindy working on conservation projects on academy laptops.  Our students will be reading Aldo Leopold's "The Land Ethic" on March 5th as part of Argyle Reads Leopold on March 5th.


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