Seventh-graders in Pete Degen’s science class capped a weeks-long lesson about watersheds by planting a “rain garden” around the Chilkoot Indian Association office last week.
The garden of indigenous plants will be fed by rainwater off the building’s roof, but also is intended to slow urban runoff, a leading cause of pollution in oceans and rivers. The project was a partnership with the Takshanuk Watershed Council.
Buildings, roads and other manmade surfaces tend to accelerate…
