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A watershed education project located in the Pedlar River watershed of western Amherst County, VA.
1st grade teacher, Cindi Bowen, helping students compare the size of their trees in centimeters & inches.
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PVES FOREST STUDY
The Forest Study Site is a science lab on school grounds for the students at Pleasant View Elementary School in Monroe, VA. It began in a corner of bare lawn in March of 2000, with seedlings donated by Virginia Department of Forestry and lots of help from Georgia Pacific Corp. and Greif Brothers Lumber Co. volunteers. The path meanders through tall and small pine trees, oak, and tulip poplar saplings, thick grasses, and wildflowers of many kinds. All but the first trees planted have naturalized. Tracks from deer and signs of many other animal visitors are everywhere.
The kindergartners who planted the first trees in the Forest Study Site are in middle school now, and some of their trees have topped 20 feet in height! This year's kindergartners will adopt their own new saplings this spring. Looking at the site now, you'd never know it was once a barren lawn. Now it is a young forest!
The kindergartners who planted the first trees in the Forest Study Site are in middle school now, and some of their trees have topped 20 feet in height! This year's kindergartners will adopt their own new saplings this spring. Looking at the site now, you'd never know it was once a barren lawn. Now it is a young forest!
This Forest Study Site section of our web site will grow with the student's telling about their adventures with poems, essays, pictures, and more.
If you are the parent of a Pleasant View student, please take the time to walk the trail and see this valuable resource growing on school grounds. Your child would love to introduce you to his or her adopted tree.
If you are the parent of a Pleasant View student, please take the time to walk the trail and see this valuable resource growing on school grounds. Your child would love to introduce you to his or her adopted tree.
Photos by Clara Jackson
