The Arkansas Audubon Society Halberg Ecology Camp is held each June at Camp Clearfork, a U.S. Forest Service camp between Hot Springs and Mt. Ida.
We are busy in the planning stage for the 2024 camps! Our dates for junior sessions will be June 9-14 and 16-21 and are for students that will have just completed 5th or 6th grade at the time of camp. Senior camp is by invitation only.
This year we have an online application option as well:
Camp Application Form, Sending Immunizations In Separately (No Google sign-in required)
Camp Application Form with Ability to Attach Immunizations (Google sign-in required)
Teacher Recommendation Form
First-year campers experience a variety of subjects including ornithology, aquatic biology, mammalogy, botany, entomology, geology and herpetology.
Camp students arrive on Sunday and leave Friday morning. So what happens in between? The staff includes a director, assistant director and a teaching staff of 12 instructors including several with Ph.D.s. Two instructors work as a teaching team with a class of 8-10 campers. Instructors are college and high school natural science teachers along with self-taught naturalists. Also on staff is a full-time registered nurse.
A typical day for campers would include early morning walks to identify birds and other critters out early in the day, breakfast, both indoor and outdoor hands-on classes before and after lunch, and dinner.
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