By Clara Sorensen '24

The MacLeish Field Station contains many features that can teach visitors about the area’s natural and cultural history. This presentation explores one such feature: stone walls.

My project aims to teach visitors to the MacLeish Field Station to “read the landscape” or learn to recognize landscape features as clues to the history of the landscape they are in.

Interpreting the Landscape: Stone Walls at the MacLeish Field Station. A presentation deriving from STRIDE with Paul Wetzel, Curr & Research Administrator of the Center for the Environment