The 1999-2000 Wilderness and Civilization group designed and facilitated a project to promote increased recycling on the University of Montana Campus. Wildlands Educational Video Project Wilderness and Civilization students this year also created educational videos focusing on specific wildlands or wildland issues. These videos enabled the students to share their learning with the larger Missoula community. Videos were aired several times on Missoula Community Access Television . At each location four transects are taken to sample vegetation in the ecotype, the adjacent area, the ecotone, and a grazing exclosure.
Students measure species diversity and abundance as well as climate conditions along the ecotone.
Upon the accumulation of 4-5 years of data a thorough comparison of vegetation and ecotone change will be completed. Campus Composting Service Project Students in the 1997-98 Wilderness and Civilization Program fundraised for composting on campus for their service project. Dining Services and the Garden City Harvest project agreed last year to pursue a program to compost preprocessed food waste on the University of Montana campus. The largest dining commons, the Treasure State Dining Room, produces 9 tons of preprocessed food waste per year. Several thousand dollars were required to buy a manure spreader and additional equipment to get the project started.