Between 2004 and 2005, the National Environmental Education Advancement Project conducted a survey to track the development of comprehensive state-level environmental education programs across the 50 states and to make this information available to EE leaders, funders, the media, and others interested in the status of environmental education.

The 2004-2005 survey marked the third installment in a longitudinal study that began in 1995. As with the 1995 and 1998 surveys, the 2004-2005 survey was sent to EE professionals in state-level positions including the state representatives of Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, and Project WET, as well as state EE associations and Department of Education and Natural Resources (or their equivalents) EE specialists. For the third survey, EE leaders that had served in key contact roles in NEEAP’s state capacity building program were added to the list.

The links below provide a synthesis of the survey and the state-by-state results.

• Synthesis of the 50 States Survey (Size 10.7 MB -- type:ms-powerpoint ) -- This MS Power Point slide show summarizes the survey's findings.  Note: you can also download this file as a PDF file (converted from Power Point to PDF using Open Office).  Download the PDF version of the 50 States Survey Synthesis here (Size 1.1 MB -- type:pdf).

• Notes to Accompany Synthesis of Third Survey Show (PDF file) -- These notes provide more detailed information about the slides in the above show. This file is a PDF file that can be viewed online and downloaded.

• State-by-State Results -- detailed information on the survey results in the form of downloadable PDF data compilation files for each state.