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Environmental College Activities 2007-08
Environmental College members and university staff celebrate the reintroduction of native American elm trees to the Dana Quad. Historically, they lined the Dana Quad. Unfortunately, during the 20th century, Dutch elm disease (an invasive species) ravaged elms across the United States, including those at Bucknell. These newly planted trees are from a lineage that is naturally resistant to Dutch elm disease and they could grace our campus for centuries. Their planting marked the culmination of a semester-long student project. |
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 Lindsay Prosser ('11) collects a water sample at a treatment facility designed to treat stream waters impaired by coal mining in central Pennsylvania. |  Environmental College students working with Biology professors Wayne McDiffett and Warren Abrahamson to remove autumn olive and bush honeysuckles, exotic plants, along the Shamokin Mountain trail. Invasion by exotic species is second only to habitat loss as a threat to biodiversity. Once invasive species are well established, it can be impossible to remove them. |  Students travelled to Washington D.C. to lobby their congressmen regarding several bills they had researched throughout the semester. Bucknell Alum, Anna Platt ('07), a staff assistant to Senator Arlen Specter, contributed in the briefing session. |
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