Community Outreach Survey for the Pitzer Outback Preserve. Jack Shaked and Peter Rominger
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The restoration process includes survey responses from the Pitzer community regarding views of the Outback Preserve. Common patterns from the survey findings show that survey participants are aware of the Outback Preserve location, but are not clear about the purpose or future of the Outback Preserve. Survey participants that are fully aware of the purpose of the Outback Preserve are skeptical of its prolonged existence and assume the College lacks commitment to protect the land. A reoccurring theme of the survey is the feeling that the Outback Preserve has lost its charm and is no longer respected by newer students.
Ecological restoration is a dynamic process that must integrate the social with the ecological in order to achieve sustainability. Many students feel that they no longer have a stake in the Outback Preserve and that its purpose is solely for classroom study.
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This same student also adds that, “The space has been stripped of what made it awesome. Now it’s boring and lacks the draw it once had.”
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One student response expresses how efforts of restoration will have a, “minimal impact to help reintegrate the Outback back into Pitzer identity” because of the fact that it has been so drastically downsized.