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“Natural Area Appreciation” Questionnaire
Please return this survey ASAP to:Sara Cole sscole@gmail.comD
 
eadline: Monday, September 12
The EIC will also accept the survey at their information desk in print.
The Rose Garden Pond and Natural Area have served as an educational setting for over 40 years. Theeducational value of natural areas is well documented, but we’d love to know what makes our natural place in
Dearborn
special to you
 
!On average, over 10,000 UMD, HFCC, and K-12 students learn in this unique “outdoor classroom” everyyear. The Natural Area at University of Michigan – Dearborn is a valuable asset for K-12 students, teachers,college students, children, families, and community members. The Natural Area is also ecologically important, too,serving as a home for a wide variety of insects, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and migrating birds. Plus, beinglocated upstream of the Detroit river, it helps clean the water that we drink from the municipal tap. This makes itvaluable for environmental scientists, ecologists, local governments, and sustainability researchers, especiallythose focused on studying the environment in urban settings.If you’re really stuck with writer’s block, think about how and where you used the natural area, how it’s valuable toyou or your community, and what was most memorable/valuable about being there. Perhaps you can discuss themwith someone to clear the cobwebs off of your memories. We’ve included more prompts at the end of this surveyfor you to consider if this isn’t enough.
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”- Pablo Picasso"Do or do not. There is no try." 
 
 – Yoda
The purpose of this questionnaire is to help understand what the Rose Garden Pond and Natural Area means to those who have used it. Your responses will help convey why it should be preserved and protected as an educational space.Select responses will be turned into essays for inclusion in the document presented to the EIC in September. Responses can and may befeatured on the EIC website or used in future publications.(Note: Please use complete sentences, feel free to sketch or include pictures too.)
1.
What is your name?
2.
What is your affiliation with the UMD Rose Garden Pond/Natural Area? How long have you beenaffiliated with it?3.Describe your most meaningful experience that occurred in the Rose Garden Pond or Natural Area,whether it involved you directly or was something that you passively witnessed. (For example:Something you discovered, a program you led, a student you worked with, etc.)
Please continue to page 2!
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GreatLakesIan

This is the finest survey I've ever helped prepare!

reply08 / 17 / 2011
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