Service Learning Project
Spring Semester 2025
Dave Schul’s GEOG 3800 –
Environment & Society class
During Spring Semester 2025, Dave Schul’s Geography 3800 “Environment and Society” class has a swervice learning component devoted to the Prairie. Here ios the class at their initial site visit in January.
January 16, 2025
R. Klips
At the Prairie
Several people focused on vegetation management at the Prairie. The principat areas of conern are shown in the aerial; photo below. Most of the work was dome in the honeysuckle thicket and the riparian corridor. Students cut woody invasives, hauled then to the brush pile area, fed the branches into a chipper. The debris was transported to a facility off-site.
In the Greenhouse
Students plant seeds and and maintained young plants of high-value wildflowers for installation in tallgrass areas in summer 2025. They also started shrub stem cutting propagation sets for installation in riparian corridor in fall 2025.
On the Prairie web site and Social Media
Some social media-savvy students completed the bee survey research page on the Prairie web site by copy/pasting species profiles from the Ohio Bee Survey report. Others presented Kensel Clutter’s Sandusky Plains map and associated methodogy from his “How this Map was Made” report on a set of pages to be published soon. Still others added plant species profile pages to the Prairie web site in the here: https://u.osu.edu/marionprairie/forbs/.
We also set up and added content to a new Instagram site here:
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