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Envirotech, working with Myers Schmalenberger Inc., site
landscape architects, and representatives of the Huron Clinton
Metropolitan Authority, assisted in the design, development and implementation of
an 80 acre metropolitan park which will feature restorations of the
following ecosystems: prairie barrens, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass
prairie, and a sedge-fen-lake com |
plex. The diversity of ecosystems
present within the park make it a unique and extraordinary educational
platform. Envirotech collaborated with an educational committee in
designing a master plan to be used by the park system to achieve
educational goals set for the site. This master plan includes
teacher-training sessions, research, activities and exhibits for the
Environmental Education Center and activities for groups of elementary
through college age students. The plan also addresses methods to
generate community involvement and interest, both in the general public
and the educational community. The goal is to use the site to teach
about ecosystems and to give visitors an appreciation of the complexity
of natural systems and the interrelationships between all aspects of
nature, including the role of human beings.
