June 17, 2016 9:00-12:00AM
Edgewood Weed Warriors
Drew Shell
nature@dshell.oddotter.org
Now, I have been working sporadically at Edgewood for over a
year and I really do enjoy the work that I'm doing. I have realized the
passion that I have for taking care of the environment, and that it is
something that I want to dedicate my life to. Something that teenagers,
and young adults, often struggle with is deciding what they want to do with
their lives, and I think that my work with Edgewood Weed Warriors has helped me
in that sense. I want to major in
environmental studies and use my education to make a true change in the world,
because while I think the work that I did at Edgewood was important, I don’t
think that habitat restoration is the most effective way to preserve the future
of the world. Through my many visits to
Edgewood and other parks around the bay, I believe that there needs to be a
better way to help both smaller ecosystems and the greater world, and I think
that furthering my education in this field is what is going to help me find
those solutions. What frustrates me the
most about my work is that all of these people put in many hours of work to get
rid of invasive species, but they come back a year later and have to weed out
the same species. The solution now is
not permeant, and I want to discover a permeant solution just as I discovered
my true passions.
Sara, great to read this as you start ES. I like your instincts--removing invasive species every year does not seem like a super effective way of responding to environmental problems (though I have done it to).
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