Katie Adkins and Katie Klatt - Edgewood College
This project was undertaken to study the effect of the native vegetation buffer on the fall population of geese in Vilas Park. A vegetation buffer is shrubs or herbaceous plants that block pathways of geese or obstruct their line of sight. We focused our research on zone 2 because this area is of much concern for people who use the park. We hypothesized that the percentage of all geese that are in zone 2 at Vilas Park would decrease after the planting of the native vegetation buffer. To complete this study we used data taken by previous students from Edgewood College. We found that, in fact, the percentage of geese in zone 2 has decreased after the planting of the native vegetation buffer in 2005. One possible potential for error includes inconsistent data taken from previous students.
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