Texas Woman’s University is located in the Monarch butterfly migratory flyway in north Texas. Because of this, we were recently awarded Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant funding through their People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program. They cited our longstanding partnerships with several community agencies and city departments in our SENCER courses through the past decade and more as visible evidence of our ability to meet the demands of the project. Curiously, ours was the first ever pollinator project to request P3 funding. Maintained exclusively by faculty and students rather than traditional landscape staff, both curricular and co-curricular educational opportunities abound in this project. Potential research projects will also be included in studies for a wide variety of courses and disciplines such as history, government, sociology, business and health studies, in addition to natural sciences.  The project will inform and reinforce the importance of natural world connections to our lives, and raise awareness of the need for conservation in a way that makes new knowledge readily accessible via hands-on learning.<br/>

TWU pollinator garden project: Citizen science in the real world

254th National Meeting (2017)

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