By Raquel Guevara-Bolaños:
On the 8th of December, a cool, crisp, winter morning consumed the Restoration Ecology Squad (the students) as they tried to bundle up and escape the cold. Our instructor, Wendy St John, was determined to continue the restoration activities she had been working on for some time now.
The students gathered around outside the Environmental Technology Center (ETC), eager for instructions, anything to get their bodies moving! Wendy then split the students up into three groups. One group, the cartography group, was in charge of retrieving the pots of plants from the greenhouse that was right next to the butterfly garden. Another group was marking the native blackberry with orange tape so that other students knew not to pick it. A third group was assigned to take measurements of various things in the area we were working on. All three groups got to work.
One of the volunteers in the cartography group, Audrey, featured inside of the greenhouse. Photo © by J. Raquel Guevara-Bolaños
The Restoration Ecology Squad put in about two hours work. All teams had worked efficiently and quickly to plant as many plants as they could. In the picture below, you can see Joshua C. and Jesica R. working hard to carefully place the plants. As you can see, they picked a spot with really good soil. The little plant babies would surely thrive.
Though the morning started off chilly, the sun eventually came out. The group of students had successfully planted a nice patch of riparian vegetation. It was a nice day to wrap up the semester as the students prepared themselves for finals.
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