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Sixth grade students at Ford Middle School spent three days removing invasive plants from a 7,000-square-foot area in April.
They cut through 6-foot-tall Himalayan Blackberry patches, pulled English Ivy off a standing Douglas fir, and dug out roots of English Holly and Scotch Broom.
After learning about human impact on water quality and their campus’s connection to the North fork of Clover Creek, students were able to have a direct positive impact on the water quality of their home watershed and learned about leadership and building connections with their classmates along the way. As a culminating experience, students drew and wrote about what they want the space to look like in the future. Their ideas will be incorporated year after year into the design of this space.
This multi-year project will continue to repair the habitat on the Ford campus and provide students and teachers with a live learning lab to investigate ecosystem health, a space to inspire poetry and writing, and much more.
If you are interested in tackling an action project at your school, submit a request to our Environmental Education team.
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