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February 12, 2019

Sarah's big art project involves the 23 sites of the Alliance for Watershed
, a network of environmental centers that focuses on the vital
Delaware basin
. If that sounds ambitious, you're right! "Complex" was
the word of the day as a dozen staffers gathered at the Heinz Wildlife
to get familiar with the mighty phragmites, an invasive plant
usually considered a useless scourge but which has some beneficial
applications, such as durable highly insulative thatched roofs and
structures as well as aesthetic potentials as a sculptural material.
 We harvested a sample in sleety rain, and though it was muddy
and cold
no one complained. Conservationists are a hardy lot.
Having a sense of larger mission tends to lighten one's heart.