Planning for future monitoring
March 18, 2008
I met with two teachers from The Dalton School, Laura and Tracy, and a future Paleontologist, Henry, to begin planning for some future restoration and monitoring. They are partnered with a New Orleans school that is involved in restoration of their wetlands. As we toured the Bronx River Forest, they offered some great ideas on how to put long term a riparian restoration monitoring program in place that is accessable to the younger crowd, in this case, 3rd graders. The preliminary idea would be that a class works with the crew to do some planting, but then also monitors the work of previous classes. In this way, the students get to feel the satisfaction of the planting, get a view into the future of their plantings by monitoring the work of others, and participate in a scientific research that improves our environment. Thank you Laura, Tracy and Henry for your interest and your input. Hope to see you all soon.
DG
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Tracy | April 1st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Damian,
We are thrilled to get our partnership started. Thanks for mentioning us in your blog. AND, thank you for mentioning the future paleontologist. He was giggling when I read it to him. Let’s chat soon to firm up our plans for this year.
Keep up the outstanding work!
Best,
Tracy