This Tuesday, Mrs. Diane Huber’s Biology 1 Honors classes took a mini field trip to the biodome behind the baseball field. Their mission? To nurture and plant Spartina alterniflora sea grass that they would move to the beach later on and plant in order to help protect the sandy seashore and the animals on it. The grass blades would provide shelter for a large number of critters, and act as a barrier to keep the beaches from erosion. The students worked hard, planting the grasses into small cups with holes and filled them with nutrient rich soil to get the plants started on growing towards adulthood.
“The day went very well,” said the teacher, Mrs. Huber.”Roughly several thousand Spartina alterniflora plugs were planted.”
Freshman Mitch Moreland also thought the trip ran smoothly.
“It went pretty well. All the people planted the [plants],” he said.
The eco-friendly excursion helped students learn more about biology and was a great way to help out the environment, one grass plug at a time.
