Mr.+Valenta

===**__Ross,__** When my group went to interview Mr.Valenta he told us about the mushrooms called Green Headed Jelly Club - //leotia viscosa//. He found them in our Sheldon forest on a hike. He also showed us a raccoon's vertibrae! It has a lot of different back bones. He showed a timber wolf skull. At the end of the interview Mr.Valenta showed us a trick with a ballon and a copper rod. He put some grease on the rod and put it though the balloon and it didn't even pop!=== ===After that we went outside and he showed the decomposing raccoon and the squirrel in his bone box right outside his work shop. Mr.Valenta had lots of cool stuff in his workshop.He has dead animals[in a container],a cd wall,a skeleton,skulls of animmals,and lots of wood. He has a body guard named Bob [a tree stump].=== ===I think he is connected to the forest because he said,"Every time I go to a school the kids like to go in the woods and ask me questions of trees and insects.They find salamanders,bird feathers,spiders and mushrooms. And that's why I think Mr.valenta is connected to the forest.=== ===After the interview Mr.Valenta showed us his pine cone puppets. They were very funny! One had curly yellow hair and a little red tie.One had a hat with blue hair! Then there was one that was bold!!!He only had a tie and shoes and a little red hat on his head.=== ===At the end of our visit we all had a great time! And we thanked Mr.Valenta for letting us interview him.I would like to interview Mr.Valenta again and see his huge house....and his fantastic work shop/Nature museum!! What else can he do to impress the public!!!!! THE END!===

===Shayley, In November a group of kids went to Kurt Valenta's house to interveiw him about how he is connected to the forest. He said " I'm a teacher in 4-Winds aas well as teaching nature courses in Isle La Motte and Grand Isle and I love to take the kids out to the Sheldon trails. I'm also a part of the Sheldon Community." He just loves Nature. He has his own Workshop/Museum that he goes into everyday, he has Skeletons, Spiders, Porqupine Quills, and wood and lots of it. In one of his nature classes he took a balloon, put lip balm on a stick and stuck it in the bottom of the balloon and it went through and it didn't even pop!!!!! When he gets a dead animal he puts it in a Bone Box ( a box for bones under ground). Everything Decomposes off the bones as the bugs and bacteria eat it. When it is all off he takes it out and puts it in Hydrogen Peroxide for a while and it turns white. Then he displays it in his Museum. I enjoyed going to Mr.Valenta's house, he was very cool.===

===Dakota, In November a group and I went to Kurt Valenta's house to interview him and how he's connected to the forest.We asked him lots of questions and he give us a lot of answers with lots of details to his answers. Mr. Valenta showed us his collection of bones and===