Restoration Field Ecology Field Trip

In today's field trip, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with my peers as well as professional field ecologists to help restore Glacial Park in Mchenry county. Although ecological restoration is costly and is very time consuming and includes a lot of hard work, it is all worth while. Being able to keep plant species alive is beneficial because we are also helping to keep different animal and insect species alive as well which helps keep the circle of life going on. I feel that this process of restoring what was already made on Earth is important and humans owe it to our surroundings since we have been continuously destroying it over the years. 

 

One of the beneficial things we did today was we gathered seeds that are extremely tiny and clustered in a certain lactation and we put them I'm cups to deliver them to a whole different area. Since these seeds are so small, people pay a lot for them, but we were able to simply pick them and transport them to a place where they can continue to flourish. 

Later on, the field ecologist gave us purchased seeds that we're put In buckets for all of us to spread out within a very large area. By planting more seeds, as we all did in our groups today, we are restoring what was lost from different animals or different natural things that got rid of them. Since each group used different seeds, it allows for a chance for all different plants to grow back and restore the marsh.