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The Catlin Gabel School community planted over 600 native trees and shrubs on Feb. 21. In a 2,000-square-foot space they created Oregon's first tiny forest on the school's campus, just outside of Beaverton. Patrick Walsh introduced the idea to his high school globalization class after hearing about the tiny forest movement going from Japan to India, then Europe. Walsh and his seniors, who have since graduated, wrote a proposal to the school and spearheaded the project. With a grant in place students in Catlin Gabel's Sustainability Team came on board, and a science teacher advised on native plants. This was a complete school effort starting with grounds crew to plow the soil, and students from First-graders all the way up to seniors, leading the way, all contributed to the tiny forest. It's really fantastic and exciting to be a part of something that you can just watch grow over time, said senior, Sophia Mauro. And these first-graders that we're working with now, they'll grow up and go through the school and see the tiny forest grow. It's meant to be a place of biodiversity, Walsh said, but for me, it's also a place of community, and hoping that it will be a place that people come back and visit as time goes by.
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