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The Green Guide Certification Program provides 90 contact hours of classroom and field-based training designed to:

• Enable guides to provide tourists with environmentally and socially responsible choices and experiences
• Educate businesses and provide technical advice
• Create a nature-centered network of guides and program participants
• Protect the area resource base for tourism and local enjoyment
• Increase awareness of responsible business
• Provide accurate information and incorporate up-to-date knowledge and practices

Share your love of nature or history with others by becoming a Green Guide by enrolling in Certification Program.

The fee for the certification program is $320. Individual courses are $20 and individual field trips are $40. The Spring program begins February 20, 2012.

The Green Guide Certification program is offered in the traditional classroom method. Each of the nature based classes and field trips listed below may be taken separately or as part of the certification program.  Classes are held at the TCC Wakulla Center, 5 Crescent Way, Crawfordville, FL.

Evening Classes 6-9 p.m. - $20/class

• Business Basics
  
• Business Start-up Financial/Legal Issues
• Nature Based Businesses Panel
• Wakulla Landscape
• Marketing Your Ecotourism Business
• Marketing Your Business Through Web Pages
• Weather and Tides in Nature
• Wakulla Landscape
• Interpretive Guiding
• Geological Features
• Florida Archeology & Pre-History
• Ecosystems Workshop
• Birds of the Region
• Local Mammals and Reptiles
• North Florida Trees
• Ethical Ecotourism/Nature Based Rules & Regulations Panel
• Accessibility & Inclusion in Nature Based Tours
• Final Presentations/Graduation (Free)

New Classes! We are now offering the Weather and Tides class. Learn about weather patterns, cloud formation, and more. Our North Florida Trees class will give you some excellent tools to learn how to identify our most common trees in this area. Call Kathie Mackie for more information at (850) 922-6290.

$40/trip -  Most Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

• St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge Field Trip 
• FSU Marine Lab Guided Tour 
  

  Photo by Gudrun Gaar

• Kayak Field Trip
• Forest Field Trip I - Leon Sink Holes
• Forest Field Trip II - Wakulla Sink Holes
• Ecosystems Workshop
• Birding & Sea Life at Mashes Sands, 8 a.m.; Rudloe's Gulf Specimen Marine Lab, 10 a.m.
• River Ecosystems/Tree ID Field Trip
• Historical and Cultural Sites Field Trip
• Nature Photography - Fort San Marcos

New Field Trip! Our newest addition is The Nature Photography field trip. Learn techniques for obtaining eye-catching photographs of landscapes, waterscapes, and wildlife in nature. You must register a week in advance for all field trips, call Kathie Mackie for more information at (850) 922-6290.

Ready to enroll in the certification course, a class or a field trip? For information call 922-6290 or mackiek@tcc.fl.edu.

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