Project FLORA: Flora Love Our Revegetation Areas

by: Mary Nied Phillips, Melissa Forsythe, and DJ Sanders

A small school district in southwestern Texas comes together to protect its own backyard. In this project students collected native seed, built a greenhouse to propagate native plants from this seed, learned to identify disturbed areas within the park, and revegetated those areas to restore to pristine habitat. Project FLORA is an onging real life opportunity that involves students in all aspects of their unique campus environment.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 4/1/2002Stock # sc02_039_07_17Volume 039Issue 07

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