“Citizen science” is a form of scientific engagement that empowers individuals to actively contribute to scientific projects. Citizen science has been employed in a wide range of areas of study, including ones pertinent to Cherokee Marsh, such as ecology, biology, limnology, and meteorology. There is an opportunity for you to get involved in weather measurements on your own property, as part of a larger citizen science effort.

Cattails are possibly the most versatile wild herbage—in terms of continuous human use—of all time. Evidence of cattail flour has been found by archaeologists on grinding stones from 20,000 years before the known dawn of agriculture.

It’s July 4, 1776, at the marsh. The only fireworks were the stars in the night sky before dawn. The only bugling is from trumpeter swans paddling on the water. The only drumming is a pileated woodpecker hammering a tree. The only picnics are elk feasting on bluegrass, clover, willow.