[CPEO-BIF] Ball State University students design Muncie, Indiana wetlands restoration

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ball State University (IN)
News Release
April 25, 2011


Whenever Ball State landscape architecture major Cory McCurdy, '11,  
thinks about the John M. Craddock Wetland Nature Preserve, he recalls  
the hours working with his hands-building a boardwalk and trail in a  
former blighted industrial area in Muncie.

Since 2003, more than 80 landscape architecture students have worked  
on the project, a 27-acre multiphase construction and wetland  
restoration along the White River in Muncie, Indiana. Once completed,  
the site will serve as a recreational trail loop offshoot to the  
Cardinal Greenway and as an interpretive learning center for K-12  
schoolchildren.

"For landscape architecture students, this has been a great way to  
get hands-on experience in the real world," McCurdy says. "We get out  
of the classrooms, go off campus, and get our hands dirty to make  
well designed and beautiful places. What better way to learn our  
craft than to design, engineer and build boardwalks, move and shape  
soil, and create spaces for the community to use and enjoy?"


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For the entire release, see
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=47342

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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