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Youth Area Watch - Community Restoration
Project - Chenega Bay 2000
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Introduction
Our restoration project this year was
to build birdhouses and distribute them
around the community for the Violet Green
and Tree Swallows.
We chose this project so we can save
the Violet Green and Tree Swallows from
extinction in our region.
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The Plan
Our plan was to create birdhouses to distribute
throughout the community. We planned on ordering
the lumber for the construction in February. We
planned to begin construction in late March. Our
finished project was to be finished by late April.
Permission was obtained by asking Joshua Hall and
Jennifer Childress, our YAW coordinators. We
expected a few people to help us with the
construction and distribution. All of the community
helped with giving us permission to put up
birdhouses in their yards.
In February, we wrote an article for the school
newspaper and informed our community about our
plans for the birdhouses. Everyone in the community
backed up our idea.
Once we saw that there was a positive response
from the community, we began construction. After we
finished, we called around again to make sure the
community sill wanted the houses to be put up. We
distributed the houses throughout the village and
put the houses where the families can watch the
birds.
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Our plan addressed a community's need
by helping our community try to increase
the population of a magnificent creature
that just reappeared last year. Our goal
is to try and increase the population of
swallows in Chenega Bay. The most
important benefit of restoration of these
swallows is that there will be fewer
mosquitoes around the village, because
they feed primarily on mosquitoes.
First we called Home Depot and Eagle
Hardware to compare prices on a specific
type of cedar wood that we needed to build
our swallow houses. To our surprise, the
prices were the same. After we were
finished, we called the district office
and asked them kindly if they could please
buy us some cedar and send it out on AAT.
They said, "yes".
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Implementation Of The Plan
After the wood came, Mr. Ray cut the
wood into the sizes that we needed. When
he was finished, he came downstairs and
got all of the students in the school
together to show us how to make the
swallow houses. Building the houses was
pretty easy and fast.
The next afternoon we distributed the
swallow houses around the community, and
secured them to the trees that the
community members wanted them on with the
screw gun.
During the next year, we should hear
more and more positive feedback from the
community about the bird houses. We will
not know if we accomplished our goal until
we see the population rise, which will
probably be about four or five years down
the road from now.
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