I received an update from Mary Wilford-Hunt:
We’ve settled nicely into the beautiful town. We had a couple minor transportation glitches, but nothing we couldn’t work though.
Christiana is great and has an activity packed week planned for us.
I’ll post additional updates as I receive them!
Amber
Team SWAMPED had another successful day at the Nike Missile Base location of the Everglades. Yesterday was the last day at this location, working alongside Mava and her partner, John, who joined us as well. Our second half of service on Thursday and Friday will be at Biscayne National Park.
Our service included cutting down willow trees and spraying them with an herbicide that killed any future growth of these plants. The willow trees that we cut in this area were an invasive species. After the national park redirected the water source away from this area of the Everglades, this invasive plant began to grow and take over the plants that naturally grew here. To fix this problem, we removed these plants to allow for plants that were not invasive to grow in this area.
We also talked a lot about wilderness and what that meant. We decided that wilderness does not have to mean untouched by humans. The Everglades can be wilderness even though it has to be kept up by humans to ensure that invasive species do not take over.
Tomorrow we will be headed to Biscayne National Park to do work regarding sea turtles!