High school students get first-hand experience in coastal conservation - Baldwin County NOW - A Gulf Coast Information Source for South Alabama

High school students get first-hand experience in coastal conservation - Baldwin County NOW - A Gulf Coast Information Source for South Alabama: "GULF SHORES, Ala. — Students at Gulf Shores High School got a first-hand lesson in caring for their coastal community on Thursday.

Urban Forester and Wildlife coordinator Larry Ellis, left, speaks to a group of Gulf Shores High School students. The botany class joined the Orange Beach Coastal Resource Department Thursday and spent the day planting trees at Robinson Island in an effort to replenish the damaged ecosystem.
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Teens from Jill Santa Rossa’s botany class, and a few extra volunteers, spent the day planting trees at Robinson Island in an effort to replenish the damaged ecosystem. The group planted 3,000 slash pine and 50 live oak seedlings."