Grace+Peel+Audubon+Society+Meeting+(Midterm+action+plan)

I attended another Audubon Society meeting for my second quarter action plan. This time, there was a speaker who talked about the museum's "Prairie Ridge" operation in Northwest Raleigh, which is a project of the Science Museum that aims to restore a previously forgotten area of land with native wildlife (including birds and several plant species).

The speaker, Brian O'Shea, presented some of his data from his extensive time spent bird-banding and surveying the wildlife on the property. He informed us that he had been conducting surveys of the wildlife in Prairie Ridge for several years, every morning from 5:30-7:30 AM. The operation has gotten more and more successful as time has gone on and the species they have introduced and helped acclimate to the "prarie" have found their niches in the ecosystem. I learned a lot about how scientists go about restoring land and reintroducing native species to the wild in a way that allows them to be successful and repopulate areas.

Most of the information I learned related to the Deforestation, Population Dynamics, and Biome readings and units we have covered in APES. It was helpful to hear from a real-world scientist about efforts to repopulate and restore natural environments, and some of the concepts I read about in the textbook make more sense after attending this meeting. Side note: the Prarie Ridge property is only a few miles from my house, so that was also really exciting to me!

Me and Meera at the meeting.