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You can\u00a0 click here for my resume<\/a>. As a kid, I spent most of my waking hours outside, exploring Sespe Canyon. Hiking into the wilds of the canyon and later on in the Sierras. I was birdwatching, fishing, and sitting under trees. The passion I felt for nature when I was\u00a0growing up, has never left me.<\/p>\n After graduating from college, I was obsessed with marine mammals and worked on several projects studying sea otters, harbor seals, dolphins and baleen whales. However, I left the sea when I was 30 years old, and moved to Minnesota shortly after. I\u00a0 stayed connected to the oceans, by writing a book on baleen whales and one on oceanography. It helped ease the pain.<\/p>\n I took up teaching and worked at a nature center, then later I worked in schools and developed an in-depth nature program.\u00a0 I could feel my impact on students, when I worked as our school district’s naturalist. That was 12 years ago, and I still have young adults coming up to me and saying things like \u201c I remember seeing my first blue heron with you.\u201d Or \u201cI remember having newly hatched dragonflies landing on me.\u201d<\/p>\n I was a public school classroom teacher for twelve years. It was a new challenge, and I am a better and stronger person having had this experience. But I need to be outside and I want to teach natural science. I am writing again, and it is a book for parents and teachers to work with their children outside in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n For more information, professional work requests or print materials sales and permissions, please contact me at\u00a0952.288.5025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n email address:\u00a0larrywade16@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Click to view an outline of my most recent book, a guide to developing a strong relationship with the natural world:\u00a0Nature Seeker Workbook.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>For ordering information, click here<\/a> or our Contact Us page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Electronic versions and sample activities of my other books are available through whalebooks.com<\/a>. For print versions, please go to the\u00a0Oceanography\/Whales page<\/a> of my Publications<\/a> tab or see the Contact Us page<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can\u00a0 click here for my resume. A letter of recommendation is also available from a school superintendent\u00a0here. As a kid, I spent most of my waking hours outside, exploring Sespe Canyon. … Continue reading
\nA letter of recommendation is also available from a school superintendent\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n