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Enterprise file photo — Melissa Hale-Spencer

Students of Alan Fiero, from Farnsworth Middle School, were in the vanguard in 2013 with a hands-on pilot project in the Pine Bush, monitoring land reclaimed from a garbage dump. This month, Fiero was awarded another grant, partly for more Pine Bush work. Here, Emily Bolognino, center, looked at the creatures she caught from the pond on reclaimed Pine Bush land while Chrissy Buckey, right, put her catch in a trough for identifying later. Behind them is Amanda Dillon, field ecologist and environmental educator, who instructed the Farnsworth Middle School students about aquatic life.