A new era for Gordon's wetlands

The new dock is going in this week! This is the last step in a years-long pond restoration project, developed and overseen each year by Lower School students.

In science class, students studied how the water and the oxygen, the plants and the oxygen, and the land use around the pond impact that ecosystem.

They developed recommendations that they brought to the Board of Trustees, recommendations that led the work of the school’s Buildings and Grounds Committee
 
They measured pH and oxygen levels, researched native and invasive species, and the circular relationship between air, sunshine, plants, plankton and fish, ducks, frogs and insects.

And, they discovered that the pond’s dock had been playing a crucial role as a place for fish to hide from herons and other aerial predators.

In June, Ms. Ham honored the fourth grade class by having them release goldfish back into the pond (video here) and now, with the dock in place, a new era for this ecosystem has begun.