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end of May, Briar Cliff offers a week-long camping trip to South Dakota's
Black Hills. Among the students' activities are analyses of the
region's water chemistry, bird and plant identification, and appreciation
of the region's geology. At the end of February, the Biology
Department sponsors a week-long trip to Texas during the school's term
break. On alternate years the destinations for these trips are Big
Bend National Park in west Texas and the Gulf coast and Rio Grande Valley
in south Texas. Both trips allow students to broaden their
backgrounds by experiencing ecosystems outside the Midwest. Weekend
trips have been made to Kansas prairies and Ozarks
forests.
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- Briar
Cliff students have participated in environmentally-related internships
through the Iowa Nature Conservancy, and at Stone State Park and the
Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center.
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- Briar Cliff faculty have been awarded grants to
conduct environmentally-related research in which interested students may
also participate. Dr. Hazlett in Biology, has conduced
field research at both Adams Homestead and Natural Area in South Dakota
and in Stone State Park, a few miles northwest of campus. Students
have played a key role in preparing botanical specimens for the Briar
Cliff
herbarium. In an earlier study of Woodbury County roadside
vegetation, Brad Shattuck (now a National Park Service natural resources
program manager) assisted
Dr. Hazlett in the field.
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