“It's so powerful to teach kids about the environment they live in, and prepare them to be its caretakers in the future. But I work with kids in kindergarten through second grade,” said Schmidgall, uncertainly surveying the children around her. “With kids this age, in the fifth to seven grades, it's a whole different ballgame,” she said.

With that, the expeditions began. With the unflappable address of a veteran schoolteacher, Gail Grossman, who has been involved with Durango Nature Studies for more than 12 years, lead a flock of children into the snow-choked mountains, pausing whenever a child's snowshoe fell off, and gamely discussing the changes that winter had wrought on the environs.

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