The American Museum of Natural History presently funds educational programs for high school students. Every year groups of high school students study the biodiversity of invertebrates including spiders. They have visited BRF many times where they have studied Field Biodiversity and ecology. Using a variety of collecting techniques they have studied the arthropod fauna of several forest microhabitats including leaf litter. Such studies furnish a rare insight and an appreciation of the hidden biodiversity of the forest while providing an introduction to forest ecology and principles of conservation biology.