Overview

The Middle Mountain Foundation Education Program has developed curriculum standards-based hikes to enhance classroom lessons in geology, ecology, and biology, as well as local history.

Hikes can be designed to enable students to see relationships between wildlife and plant life, to encounter geological forces that have shaped our local landscape, and to experience how the local indigenous Maidu, the early explorers, and finally the settlers and ranchers used the land.

Discovery treks and structured learning activities are geared to provoke observational skills, as well as reflective reactions to modern society’s relationship with the environment. The proximity and accessibility of the natural Sutter Buttes landscape makes an incomparable classroom without walls where educational experiences become lifetime memories.