University Coloquium Case Study

Kaylee A. Clifford
University Colloquium Service Learning Proposal
1. Where are you planning to do your service learning? Be specific and list for what organization or event(s) you will be working. Account for the full ten hours.
I am planning to do my service learning at CREW Land and Water Trust. I am going to be helping them with two fundraising events, one on January 28th and one on February 18th. These two events will account for, at least, 5 hours total, but may end up being more than that. The other 5 hours will be put towards trail clean-ups, but I am waiting on specific trail clean-up dates from Jessi Drummond.
2. What are you planning to do for your service learning? What will be your specific project for your ten hours? (100-200 words).
I am going to be working two fundraising events and working on trail clean-ups. The
They oversee about 60,000 acres of watershed, along with the South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. CREW’s part is to coordinate the acquisition of land, management of it, and public use of the space. They actually try to buy up land to preserve it, so that it isn’t developed on. They’re basically working to prevent urban sprawl from consuming the Corkscrew area, and the natural habitat there. As in a Land Remembered, when Sol MacIvey is driving to Punta Gorda and is disgusted by the development he sees, that he was a part of, CREW is working to prevent this. CREW members/employees are self-proclaimed conservationists, and much like Toby seem to be aghast by the dwindling forest and Everglades