On Oct. 2 about 80 fifth graders from Monticello and Monroe’s Parkside schools attended the fall youth conservation day Honey Creek Park in Monroe. It was put on by the Green County Land and Water Conservation Department and Green County Conservation League. Classes rotated around to 14 different stations to learn about conservation topics like soil properties, trees, Native American artifacts, drones, conservation farming, prairies and wildlife calls. LEFT: Students learn about watersheds from Susan Lehnhardt with the Lower Sugar River Watershed Association. Using an Enviroscape model, the students learned how human activities impact others in the watershed and water quality of surface waters downstream. CENTER: Josh Trame, City of Monroe Parks and Forestry Supervisor, shows the damage that an Emerald Ash Borer does to Ash trees to kill them. He showed samples of the insect in its different stages and how it lives under the bark until an adult and chews a D -shaped hole to fly away to infect a new tree.  Many Ash trees have died because of this destructive invasive insect. RIGHT: Students look for macroinvertebrates, or small water bugs, that live in the woody debris in a stream at one of the stations.