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Going Squirrelly: Evaluating Educational Outcomes of a Curriculum-aligned Citizen Science Investigation of Non-native Squirrels

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|Jul 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.275 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 13, 2019
Accepted on: May 30, 2020
Published on: Jul 15, 2020
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