Heritage Middle School MESA Environmental Program Students Build Wildlife Friendly Fences!
Photographer Linda King from the Longmont Ledger, a new newspaper that will available soon, snapped photos of MESA students from Heritage Middle's MESA Environmental Program as they took on a back-breaking project at Walker Ranch, a Boulder County Parks and Open Space site located in the mountains west of Boulder. With guidance from BCPOS Rangers, Amanda Hatfield and Kevin Grady, they built wildlife-friendly fences to protect the nesting sites of prairie hawks and golden eagles. Janet Benter, their MESA advisor, said that this was by far the hardest labor that they've done so far. They hefted 17 foot long logs and used nails up to five feet long to construct seven sections of fence that were four logs tall! Janet proudly proclaimed that there was "no whining" at all.
Nathalie Herrera, Maria Vidal with Amanda Hatfield.
