Field Work Fridays.......

Field Work Fridays,,,,,

After a full week in the office I can’t help but have a touch of anticipation for what Friday may bring. This is the middle of semester and also the middle of the field work season and Friday afternoons have come to be called Field Work Fridays. It started last fall when I decided to merge the Academic Service Learning requirement in some of my classes with the need for environmental restoration and improvements in the preserve; students needed worthwhile and realistic projects and the preserve needed lots of attention and TLC. It started with a small handful of students and through some good word of mouth it grew to more than 60 students from five different classes putting in over 600 hours in a couple of months; they did great work and their written reflections on what they accomplished were wonderful. Melissa who worked as hard as anyone last semester came by today and asked if we still had the projects for this semester; she’ll be there for sure even if its not part of her courses this term. Way to go MD !!!

So here it is a Thursday night in April with the third field work Friday of the season set for tomorrow; We had only two students the first week and then only three the second week but there are eight signed up for tomorrow; that’s the way it grew last year too. I’ll let you know how things work out – weather is not looking great but it’s the people not the weather that make it into a great day; and who knows we could luck out with that too;