Constructed Ecologies

Cave Springs Floating Wetlands Workshop

Eighty or so students from Kirksey Middle School in Rogers, Arkansas visited the Illinois River Watershed Partnership’s Watershed Sanctuary in Cave Springs on May 15, 2015. They got a tour of the Sanctuary, chased crawdads in the former hatchery raceways,…

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Building Floating Wetlands, Earth Day 2010

PVIA Chairman Dr. Ken Hammond and local area middle schoolers pose with a newly planted floating wetland at Lake Wister, April 21, 2010

For Earth Day 2010 the Choctaw Nation and the Poteau Valley Improvement Authority (PVIA) sponsored an educational event for local middle schoolers at Lake Wister. Students helped finish building and then planted two floating wetlands which were added to those…

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