This project will benefit from the experience and leadership of Four Corners School of Outdoor Education that includes:

• Four Corners School is a twenty-five-year-old non-profit with a long history of place-based programs that includes the Canyon Country Youth Corps, Southwest Ed-Ventures, and the Bioregional Outdoor Education Project. The new Discovery Institute for Conservation Education will be its fourth place-based outdoor education program.
• Four Corners School has a track record of successful growth, from 1998 revenues of $428,000 to 2008 revenues of $1,034,114.
• Four Corners School has received awards from the National Wildlife Federation for work on grazing reform (1992); the Utah Wildlife Society for Peregrine Falcon research (1993); the U.S. Forest Service for significant archaeological excavations on the Colorado Plateau (1995); the Utah Society for Environmental Education as the Environmental Education Program of the Year (1994, 1999, 2003, 2005); the Coleman Company as the Outdoor Education and Recreation Program of the Year (1999); the Governor of Utah's Medal for Science and Technology in science education (2001); the North American Association for Environmental Education (2001); the National Public Radio's E-Chievement Award (2001); the 2002 Olympics Committee Spirit of the Land Environmental Education Award; the Prescott College Desert Star Award (2003); the Governor of Utah's Watershed Improvement Award (2004); the BLM's State of Utah Public Lands Volunteer of the Year Award (2004); the Utah Society for Environmental Education as the Environmental Educator of the Year award (2005); National Geographic Traveler Magazine with one for 50 Great Trips of a Lifetime for our Southwest Safari Camps; and the Public Lands Service and Project of the Year awards from The Corps Network for our Dolores River Restoration Project (2009).