Dunes Restoration : Almost Waste Feast : National Parks Day

Dunes Restoration

April 1, 2007

Earthtones sponsored a trip to the dunes to help restore a prarie maintained by the Dunes National Park. Fourteen people helped restore the prarie by cutting down trees, cleaning up brush, and seeding the ground with seeds from native plants. The group spent two hours volunteering in the prarie. Shown below is a picture of part of the group receiving their initial instructions and a picture of one of the members finishing off a tree that needed to be removed.

The group receiving their instructions.

Chris finishes a cut to drop a tree that needed to be removed from the prarie.


Almost Waste Feast

February 19-21, 2007

Members of Earthtones, along with the help of several professors, resolved to divert some waste at Jesters from the garbage cans by consuming what others were going to throw away. These individuals stopped students as they were heading to the garbage cans and asked them if they had any food left on their plates. This food was collected by the members of Earthtones. A lot of the food was consumed by the members of Earthtones. The rest of the food was placed in a bucket to be composted. Some pictures from the event are below.

Earthtones Members ready to collect food at lunch on the first day.

Nick plows into his delicacies. A professor joins the members of Earthtones and gets some food of his own.


National Parks Day

November 2007

In honor of National Parks Day, six members of Earthtones volunteered at the Indian Dunes National Park. Five of the members helped remove an invasive species from the park. The other volunteer helped repair boardwalks in the national park. The group spent several hours volunteering. A picture of the group with one of the park rangers is below.

Earthtones members at the Dunes

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