Upon the return to school, the Valley High School Environmental Club took on the prairie reconstruction as their senior project. They began by eliciting help from community organizations for donations that would cover the seed cost. That fall they received monetary donations from Mid-American Energy, Iowa Network Services, and the student council. The money they raised was enough to cover the remaining cost to prepare and seed the entire site.
The plant science students continued to work in the prairie by removing noxious weeds and identifying the plants that had leafed out or were in bloom. They also harvested seed from the black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta), partridge pea (Cassia fasciculata), and the ox-eye sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides).
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