I too live and hunt in the Mississippi River valley, but a little closer to the top. I am really glad to see that there will be one more outdoor oriented teacher. My wife is a 5th grade school teacher, and most kids arrive in her classroom every year with an innate, but unaddressed interest in the outdoors. We walk the logging trails in the summer and pick up feathers, skulls, beehives, agates, and she brings the finds to her science class, and the excitement is palpable.