Irene ZhangA coworker told me that she moved to Oregon in 4th grade and went to a magnet school in environmental conservation which mostly consisted of weekly field trips to remove invasive blackberry bushes and English ivy. This is the most PNW thing I’ve ever heard.
Clark Shishido@irene I went to a college-prep school in Monterey that still has the students perform minor maintenance tasks on campus. (It's a very small school.)
One of the tasks is collecting invasive iceplants.