Another goal is to improve student test scores by increasing scientific and environmental literacy, while boosting the sense of responsibility among young people for the community and the environment. I'm not going to try that again. They were also looking for bugs with help from Neal Biggart, a toxicologist with The Environmental Trust. The nonprofit organization owns the 110-acre Calavera Preserve, bordered by a portion of the creek before it flows into Agua Hedionda Lagoon. Finding the right bugs is a good sign of a healthy creek, Biggart tells the children.
Some insects are pollution tolerant.
Others are very pollution intolerant. They can't handle it at all. We found little worm things. They're so cute. This is cool.