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CONSERVATION EDOCATION INITIATIVE prescriptive approaches, NFWF helps blunt the momentum of a backlash against environmental education by allowing audiences to think about conservation issues for themselves, countering the wise- use argument that environmental education brainwashes students to think only one way. Our goal is to reach as wide an audience as possible, creating a public that is better informed to face the tough conservation choices ahead. To that end, the Foundation's 1997 grants supported a wide range of activities, from helping veterinarians understand more about wildlife conservation to encouraging children's authors to write about conservation. Tufts University has used a NFWF grant to train veteri- narians to better understand and participate in wildlife conservation efforts. The Children's Writers Institute sponsored a conference that brought together prominent ~' n 1997, NFWF's Conservation Education Initiative, which brings conservation learning to a wide array of tradi- tional and nontradition- al audiences, awarded forty-one grants to thir- ty-eight organizations. Like George Marshall's plan for rebuilding the post-war economies of Europe, the Conservation Education Initiative provides the tools-cost sharing and technical assistance-that allow groups to create their own approach- es and solutions to conserva- tion issues. Marshall's plan was designed, in part, to blunt the spread of Communism beyond the Iron Curtain by giving countries the support they needed, while allowing them to determine their own futures. NFWF's locally driven initiatives follow the same approach. By avoiding didactic or . . . the Conservation [ducation Initiative provides the tools- cost -sharing and technical assistance-that allow groups to mate their own approaches and solutions to conservation issues. 16 1997 Annual Report These butterflies traveled (by mail) from u.s. schools to Mexico and back as part of the Journey North environmental education program. John Ratzloff