My final project for my class titled Citizen Science on Biodiversity and Climate Change was to create a citizen science project based on an environmental issue we have noticed in our own communities. My group created a project titled the Prairie Patch project centered around prairie revitalization in the midwest. Planning out this project not only required consideration of resources and community engagement, but we also faced the various hurdles we would need to jump to ensure prairie protection on a legislative level. Even though our project was hypothetical, it was eye opening to research the logistics of starting an organization focused on land protection. We discovered that one key hurdle was land privatization. Masses of land are owned by the federal government and private corporations for the purpose of extraction often under the guise of “protection and management”. Fighting for prairie protection legislation would require a dismantling of the idea of land ownership and for us to reconsider what we know about land privatization. This led me to think about the need to educate on the realities of land privatization in the face of a rapidly changing climate. Just through this month-long project I learned a lot about prairie protection and land privatization and expanded my knowledge on environmental policy. Education is a key component in changing the way climate change is treated in politics.