RHS students learn from Bog Springs project
Stream Dynamic's Bog Springs project featured in Ruidoso News:
A planned project to restore wetlands along Warrior Drive and further enhance the ecology in the area of Ruidoso High School has turned into an education for students. The proposed Bog Springs Drainage Restoration is a collaborative initiative that includes high school departments, individual teachers and classes of pupils.
"It's really exciting to see the amount of enthusiasm especially as I'm going from class to class," said Jen Zawacki, an ecologist educator with Stream Dynamics, a stream and wetland restoration company in New Mexico. "We have engagement from the history department looking at oral history where students could interview community members and kind of compile and document looking at both listening and written skills. I've met with the Spanish classes who are translating the project into their Spanish newsletters. I've met with both the web design class, who's looking at putting forth a website for the project so that would be available to the community, and through the school's tech support we've even got a camera that can be mounted to take time-lapse photography of kind of the Entrance Park as it is constructed. Students want to post that on the website so the community has a continual update of that part of the project."
