The kids jumped out of the bright yellow bus one by one, landing on the ground with a sharp thwack and scurrying over to the grass of Mattie Kelly Park in Destin, Florida, waiting for the rest of their friends. The bus would take two groups of students that day from their summer programs at the Boys and Girls Club to the park, where each student waited patiently to pick up his or her very own smooth cordgrass plant from staff at the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA).

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