WILD NEW JERSEY: Conserve Wildlife Blog: Students donate beech nuts to feed woodrats
Conserve Wildlife Blog: Students donate beech nuts to feed woodrats
Beech tree seeds for the Allegheny Woodrats collected by Doane Academy Pre-K, Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades. Photo Credit: conservewildlifenj.org
From Conserve Wildlife: After reading our September 1st blog post about the endangered Allegheny woodrat and the supplemental feeding program, Bonnie Smith, a teacher at Doane Academy in Burlington, NJ called her students into action. The lower grades (Pre-K, Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades) began collecting beech seeds on the school grounds during their regularly scheduled nature discovery class. Over the course of several weeks, Bonnie and her students were able to collect hundreds, if not thousands, of seeds that will be used to supplemental feed the Allegheny woodrats this winter.
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