BLM CA Alpaugh USC Atwell Island Enviro Ed and Science Program

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Alpaugh Unified School District science teacher will provide direction and coordinate investigative projects at BLM AIP with over 100 students. Coordinate two restoration projects with students annually. High school aged youth, under the direction of the science teacher will conduct two field trips annually to the community and lower aged students. The projects have multiple ecosystem benefits including state and federally listed, atrisk species recovery, rare upland habitat type restoration, ongoing wetland restoration, environmental education, and recreation. The project is focused but not limited to: restore saltbush scrub, California annual grassland, wetland and riparian habitats. These restoration efforts will further support populations of migratory birds such as sparrows, waterfowl, and shorebirds; threatened and endangered species such as blunt-nosed leopard lizard, Tipton kangaroo rat, and San Joaquin kit fox; as well as endemic species of concern including but not limited to burrowing owl, and coast horned lizards.

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