To Educate…communities and future generations on issues related to the environment by developing and supporting the skills needed to discover and create innovative solutions to environmental and social problems in an ever-changing world.
To Explore…innovative ways for communities and scientists to work together to inform each other about the needs of the communities and the goals of the scientists to foment the sustainability of natural resources – “to live with nature.”
To Empower…individuals through community-based educational and environmental programming, and participatory research.