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A collaborative effort to remove invasive species, create health and beauty in our forests, and share the issue with our community.
Banner artwork by Gretta Kriekard & Morgan Tichon
The trails through the East Woods at Forest Hills Central Middle School are used by students and community members as they travel from the community to the school grounds.
The trails through the East Woods at Forest Hills Central Middle School are used by students and community members as they travel from the community to the school grounds.
Like much of the forested land in Ada and Cascade these woods are overrun with Invasive Bittersweet vines, which are quickly deteriorating the health of the forest.
Like much of the forested land in Ada and Cascade these woods are overrun with Invasive Bittersweet vines, which are quickly deteriorating the health of the forest.
Through this project, students are bringing awareness to the issue of invasive species in the Ada/Cascade area through weavings along the woodland trails at Central Middle School.
Through this project, students are bringing awareness to the issue of invasive species in the Ada/Cascade area through weavings along the woodland trails at Central Middle School.
Is Oriental bittersweet on your property? Watch this video created by CMS students to find out more about one of the worst invasive plants in the Ada and Cascade community.
Experience this project through the eyes of one of the artists and CMS Ranger Review staff writer, Sadie Zachow. (As originally published in the Ranger Review, Issue 6.)
The Forest Weaving project uses art to shed light on the issue of invasive species. Student, Ash Goward, gives her take on the issue.
Journalist Morgan Jarema interviews CMS students and sums up the project in this School News Network article.
Forest Weavings: A Self-Guided Tour
Forest Weavings: A Self-Guided Tour
Don't miss this exhibition in the woods east of Central Middle School.
Park in the lot at the east side of the school (the gym/athletic entrance) with the dumpsters and green shed. Enter the woods at the trailhead, and take a walking tour of the weavings. There are signs to show you the way!
This project was made possible by our partners:
This project was made possible by our partners:
Groundswell
Groundswell
Jessica Vander Ark
Project Manager
vandjess@gvsu.edu
GR Shop
GR Shop
John AC Despres
Revery
Revery
Rebecca Marquardt, PLA, SITES AP
Owner/Landscape Architect
(720)833.1391
​rebecca@reverystudio.com
Questions?
Questions?
Contact teachers Lea Sevigny (lsevigny@fhps.net) and Caitlyn Tetreault (ctetreault@fhps.net) for more information about the project.
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