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Boosted by funding from the Lake Forest High School Foundation, and working together with the City of Lake Forest and Lake Forest Open Lands Association, Environmental Geoscience students are experiencing "service learning" first hand.
Amazing progress has been made by LFHS students as they begin to execute their five-year plan to restore the strip of property across the street from the high school to a native Illinois savannah habitat. According to the project sponsor and Environmental Geoscience faculty member, Mary Beth Nawor, compliments already abound within the community applauding the openness, safety and improved sightlines of the bike path directly across from the LFHS campus.
With initial start-up funding for tools, storage and seeds coming from the LFHS Foundation, students enrolled in Environmental Geoscience will work alongside volunteers from Lake Forest Open Lands Association, as well as municipal staff from the City Forester, and the Lake Forest Parks & Recreation departments, to clear and restore the stretch of property along the train tracks.
Through this innovative project, as students connect the concepts studied in class to a real-world setting, they will learn the practical aspects of ecosystem health, invasive species, biodiversity and habitat restoration. Each year the experiential initiative will be evaluated by inventorying the number of native and non-native plants that remain at the site.
To personally experience the impact of Foundation funding, and this unique collaboration with the City of Lake Forest and Lake Forest Open Lands Association, simply connect with the Bike Path just north of the business district, and enjoy the ride!
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