Northwood

Wednesday Journal: Today, we spent our time at the Audubon Center of the Northwoods in Sandstone, Minnesota. The weather was sunny with splashes of clouds and it felt especially humid. The first part of the day was spent contrasting the prairies we observed yesterday at Sherburne Wildlife Refuge with the newly restored prairie at Audubon. Historically, the new prairie was an old agricultural field; the team removed the old plants, sprayed to remove the plants, burned off the older vegetation…

The purpose of the community health assessment is to identify health needs and risks, as well as strengths and assets, in Palm Beach County. Palm Beach County, Florida consists of 2,386.33 square miles; of which 1,969.76 square miles is land and 412.22 square miles is water. With over 1.3 million people, Palm Beach County is “the third-most populous county in Florida” (Wikipedia, 2014). West Palm Beach is the biggest city with a population of 102,436 and the location of the county’s three…