Caitlin Poor, a senior at Olympia High School, is our 2008 recipient of the Edwin and Paula Brackney Environmental Scholarship. She will attend Florida Gulf Coast University's Honors College. Her goal is to double major in Environmental Science and Political Science with the ultimate goal of attending Law School for Environmental Law or graduate work in an environmental field. Caitlin's essay follows. Her prompt was "Describe how your personal carbon footprint affects the quality of the ecosystem in which you live."  >more

The Education Committee held a program for the fourth and fifth grades at Windermere Elementary School discussing Wetland Ecosystems, Water Conservation, Pollution Control, and the Critters who live around the Butler Chain. Each student was giving a copy of our new coloring book "Critters of the Butler Chain."   >more