Welcome to a website that will teach you many things! It includes facts about Native Americans, the people who first lived on this land and what they experienced and where they are today. There are also facts about Gunbarrel Hill and some awesome facts about the Wood Brothers project introduced to us by Growing Up Boulder and Open Space and Mountain Parks! Another cool fact is that this is all done by kids! In fact, I am a kid.
This year we're lucky to have the chance to visit two open space sites. The first site was the Wood Brothers site across from Heatherwood's playground. We were asked by adults from Growing Up Boulder and Open Space and Mountain Parks to give suggestions by saying how we liked to learn outside and activities we would like on the site. They really listened to our ideas!
The other site was Gunbarrel Hill trail. We learned about prairies and the ecosystem and ways of being stewards of the land. Gunbarrel Hill is home to threatened animals such as the grasshopper sparrow and the northern shrike as well as prairie grasses that are important food and habitat sources. OSMP wants to restore undesignated trails and to put in signs to help educate the public about the land and how to take care of the land. We got to help design the signs!
We hope you enjoy your visit to our site! Thank you for visiting!
James Churnside
Our Driving Question:
How can we as students become stewards of the land, learning from the land, Open Space and Mountain Parks, and most of all from the experts who were the first stewards as well as the first inhabitants of the land, the Indigenous People of Turtle Island?
Grant Garabed