Become an EarthTeach Member TODAY!
March
5, 2007
Dear EarthTeach Community,
IT IS UNIQUE.
EarthTeach Forest Park is remarkably unlike any other
educational resource in Southern Oregon. It is 1680 acres
of meadow and forestland that is dedicated to experiential
learning in nature. It hosts personal growth, life passage,
and community-building programs through challenge course
experiences, wilderness awareness programs, arts-in-nature
and leadership development camps.
IT IS A PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE of all ages to connect with
nature and themselves. Most especially, for youngsters it
is a safe, wild setting in which to explore, learn, and
play. These experiences are rare and special gifts with
life-enriching potential. What is also unique about
EarthTeach is that you readily come to feel like it belongs
to you. That is because it does.
OUR CHALLENGE TOGETHER
- Initiated by a family gift and sustained for its first
decade by a sizable bequest, EarthTeach is administered by
the Way Foundation, a 501c3 public charitable trust. The
Park, a living legacy, is currently challenged because
revenue from operations is not sufficient to support basic
needs such as maintenance, a custodial presence,
port-a-potties, property taxes and fire protection.
Without significant support from our friends, the
Foundation may lose its ability to continue making this
wonderful place available to everyone.
A
GREAT PLACE TO BE
Our
value to this region goes beyond being a splendid place for
a hike. Enriching experinces at the Park include:
•
Hundreds of Rogue Valley students learning about life
transitions,
•
Team building, and leadership on the challenge “ropes”
course.
•
Young artists discovering their passion at fine arts camps.
•
Ashland’s John Muir Magnet School studying wildlife and
forest ecology at their year-round “off campus” site.
•
“At-risk” teens working and caring for the land, and
reshaping the way they see and interact with the world.
•
Families sharing Coyote Trails wilderness experiences,
& teens developing leadership skills in LEAP camp.
•
Inspiration-seeking visitors walking the high elevation
labyrinth.
OUR
SOLUTION TOGETHER is a Membership Program to help defray
the expense of basic operations. With your membership, the
Way Foundation will more effectively offer EarthTeach as an
outdoor education field-site to schools and organizations
and as a free-trespass nature preserve to everyone. We
invite you to help sustain EarthTeach Forest Park as a safe
and readily accessible place dedicated to growth through
true connection with nature and self. There really is no
place quite like it!
Please
send your
membership
pledge
to our community office at:
76 Dewey Street, Ashland, OR 97520 today
Very
Sincerely,
Chris Cotton, President ~The Way Foundation
The Way Foundation Board of Trustees
Peter
W. Cotton, Chris Cotton, Onnolee Stevens, John Steinman,
Jack Davis, Sharon Bolles, Nikki Cotton
Member Letter
2007