Author Tom Wessels Visits The Academy

EnviSci students listen raptly to Tom Wessels 2EnviSci students listen raptly to Tom WesselsEnviSci students share what they learned from Tom Wessels with Biology studentsTom Wessels, author of Reading the Forested Landscape and several other important forest ecology works, visited the Environmental Science class on Thursday morning and toured several sites on campus to share his knowledge and perspective about land use history and the record of natural and anthropogenic events shown in the trees and landscape. His expertise will help inform the class as they finish a trail stories project around campus. After he left, the EnviSci students gave Biology students a tour of some of what they learned and saw – they are already paying it forward!