Wow! Shepherd’s Corner is such a delightful place to be! I would like to give thanks to Shepherd’s Corner and the Columbus Fellowship Foundation for providing me with this incredible oportunity!

In 1997 Mark Dilley, founder of MAD Scientists, did a complete Ask the Land survey of Shepherd’s Corner’s 160 acres. Experts were invited out to explore and collect specie counts of all the diverse life forms that are inhabitants of the land. This summer I will be joining experts from the many fields of biology to do a re-surveying of the land. For example, Mark Dilley will be focusing on flora, Jim McCormac will be focusing on birds, Aaron Laver will be focusing on amphibians and aquatic life, etc. After the counts are compete, the data will be compiled, comared to the findings from the 1997 survey, and then further elaborated on in the 2015 Ask the Land survey booklet.

My main focus for the summer will be to evaluate the big-picture question: How has the increased number of surrounding housing developments and a commerical strip mall impacted the diverse inhabitants of Shepherd’s Corner?

To find the answer to this important question I shall ask the land!