Wetlands Edge

  Environmental Center

 Click here to see WEEC's Talking Animals!

Welcome

Welcome to WETLANDS EDGE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER (WEEC), a partnership formed between bp and Decatur City Schools (DCS) in Decatur, Alabama.  WEEC provides hands-on, environmental "place-based" (David Sobel, 2004)* educational opportunities across the K-16 curriculum to all who visit.  Located on bp's 320+ acres of wildlife habitat, WEEC offers a brand new opportunity to explore the natural world in a setting that combines native species and natural beauty. This award winning wildlife habitat is certified through the Wildlife Habitat Council ( http://www.wildlifehc.org ), a nonprofit, non-lobbying organization dedicated to increasing the quality and amount of wildlife habitat on corporate, private and public lands. For a list of programs offered click here: Schedule a Field Trip.

The Center hosted its first group of students on February 22, 2002, offering programs in two classrooms/labs with numerous live displays, including two floor-touch tanks, a 1650-gallon marine tank, and a 780-gallon freshwater ecosystem. In addition, more than two miles of trails traverse the habitat enabling visitors to see several diverse ecosystems including a swamp, a marsh, a pond, bottomland hardwoods, upland species, young pines, and an old oak grove climax community. Such remarkable biodiversity in habitat and species places Alabama in the top fiveon the biodiverstiy index for the contiguous 48 states. For more information click here: Alabama's Treasures & Troubles.

This web site is intended to be a forum for communication.  DCS students and teachers may share information, field data, and samples of their creative work.

We invite you to contact us and participate!
Please use the Main Menu to examine our possibilities.

More About WEEC:
Program Goals  I  FAQs  I  Location eIe Links    
What are Wetlands?  I  Area History  I  Contact Us

Website Updated
Aprill 11, 2008

*Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities
Dr. David Sobel, 2004

Some portions of this website are under construction as a new software program is being implemented.