BLUEGIRL
Registered: December 2007
City/Town/Province: bOTHELL, wa
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Forest Cleanup
The forest, what a perfect place to hike on an early Saturday. I smell the fresh air and begin my journey up the trail that is about 5 miles long. I see the green trees and the little animals running away. Then I noticed something wrong, a chubby rabbit was not moving when I walked near. It was perfectly still and seemed to have something around its neck. I walked closer, but still keeping my distance. The rabbit was choking on an open can. I knew that some people littered out here, but I never knew that it could affect the animals. That was the moment that I knew I had to do something.
I got together a bunch of my friends and decided to have a clean-up event in the forest. I talked to my school and they were willing to have the whole school involved. The event was scheduled on a Saturday from 9 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., there were two shifts so students could trade off. Parents brought lunch and snacks for us. I had no idea that having a cleanup was so much fun. We saw some plants and animals that I had never seen before. During the clean-up, I saw an elk so close that I could almost touch it. There were also plants and some wild strawberries that I had never noticed before. There were some poisonous mushrooms that were decorated with the colors of the rainbow. We talked and joked around, but at the end of the day, we cleaned up the whole area. We were proud to see everything clean. It was hard work and we started brainstorming ways to reduce littering in our area. We decided to put up posters and let people see the hazards of garbage to our community. We also contacted our mayor and proposed to have more garbage cans so people didn’t have to carry their garbage around everywhere.
The amount of litter that we picked up at the end of that day was about 50 bags of garbage, I was so proud of all of the work that we had done. There were some people that started helping us that weren’t part of our school. It was amazing to see what I had done in conducting my own wilderness cleanup; how one person can make a difference. It is important to take care of the area where I conducted my project because of the animals that live there and making my community look clean. I want my community to look nice and to have the tourists say what a beautiful town it is.
After completing my project, I feel that Apprentice Ecologist Initiative™ really do make a difference in people’s lives. Apprentice Ecologist Initiative™ influenced me to have a cleanup, think about what it could do worldwide. It is a great program to get kids involved with the community and help out their communities. If everyone started to have cleanups in the world, the Earth would be cleaner and better for all of us. We do this because we care, not for us, but for everybody.
Thanks Apprentice Ecologist Initiativeâ„¢!
Dear Reader,
Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read my essay. I appreciate it!
Thanks,
Daphne
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