By Barbara Moran and Vivian La
Weeks after a federal funding freeze — and after multiple judges ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze those accounts — some Massachusetts nonprofit groups still can’t access grant money they were promised. Others say they can access the funds but worry the cash will disappear again as they try to pay for a variety of environmental projects. At the Wayland-based Native Plant Trust, staffers still can’t access a grant for seed banking from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By Julian Mendoza
Stephanie Apanell’s fourth grade class at Whately Elementary School joined forces with Amherst’s Hitchcock Center for the Environment this October for a series of climate-related explorations. Students engaged in hands-on activities over the course of three sessions at Whately Elementary, as well as during one visit to the Hitchcock Center. Monya Relles, the Hitchcock Center’s environmental educator who headed the program, said they primed their lessons to make climate-related education about more than “just being hopeless.”
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