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What is it like to bring 65 fourth-grade students on a field trip to the great outdoors?
“It’s organized chaos,” said Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky, public and legislative affairs manager for Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership.
Less than 30 minutes later, those 65 students were deeply engrossed in planting native trees and shrubs along the Burnt Bridge Creek Greenway, carefully digging out and setting aside worms and centipedes, and learning how their plantings will make the creek better for returning salmon.
