Student Habitat Restoration Program Hits 500

On a recent day, a battalion of some 50 elementary school students padded down a dirt road in rural Sonoma County, the din of excited voices joining a choir of singing birds and babbling streams. On the banks of the Tully Creek Ranch, they gathered in a circle to hear out the day’s instructions – before taking up hoes and shovels and setting to the business-at-hand. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.