Plant Rescue at Plano Senior High – Event Summary

Plant Rescue at Plano Senior High
November 23, 2024

Here is a brief report of the Plano Sr High School plant rescue for Canyon Creek Wetland and Wildscape. Thanks for your help either getting the word out or doing the work or both. 🙂
This was a collaboration of NTMN and BPTMN.

Organized by Mark Yoder (BPTMN Class of 2024) and promoted by Peter Williams (BPTMN class of 2020) and Julia Koch (NTMN Class of 2020). We met at 8 a.m. Saturday morning to rescue native plants in a pocket prairie established in 2019 by one of Mark’s environmental science students. The current construction project will soon include the area next to the softball field where the pocket prairie is. Fourteen people helped dig out 64 native plants to transplant to Canyon Creek Wetland & Wildscape, including five (5) high school students of Mark’s and one other young man. For the first hour and a half, we dug out little bluestem (60), switchgrass (7), big bluestem (3), blue mistflower (9), big blue sage (1), Snow on the prairie (1), and Mexican plum (3). We transported them in three pickup trucks to CCWW where we planted them on the slope East of the trail. The Mexican plums were root suckers with minimal roots, so individuals took them home to nurture them over winter before planting them next Spring.

Participants: Julia Koch, Mary Lobb, Mark Yoder, Peter Williams, Alika Ray, Matt Saathoff, Steve Boeding, Alexandra Joshi, Tehnuizah Khalid, Calvin Joshi, James Telford, Carson Pike, Venus Cheng, Siri Pulukuru

Thanks again!

Peter Williams