Students work to protect habitat

From: Tacoma News Tribune, WA
Nov. 16, 2002

Russ Carmack; The News Tribune

Barbie Cruz, right, jumps on a shovel held by University of Puget Sound biology student and volunteer Natasha Nicolaia.

Cruz, a fourth-grader in Cathy Corrado's class for deaf and hard of hearing students at Birney Elementary School, is working with other students to help protect and restore Tacoma's Puget Creek on Thursday. The students planted Sitka willows, red twig dogwoods and ferns.

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