As we have learned more about the woods, we have come to view it as an ideal setting for an Environ-mental Learning Center. As such, school children and citizens from the entire metropolitan region would have the opportunity to learn more about nature in this wooded parcel of land. The Friends of the Birch Pond Watershed / Save Anwatin Woods (FBPW/SAW) is working with The University of Minnesota's Design Center for the American Urban Landscape , teachers and staff from Anwatin Middle School and Bryn Mawr Elementary, Minneapolis Park System and others to develop this concept.
What Do the Landscape Design Center Initial Concepts Look Like?
Here are three concepts showing possible configurations of an Environmental Learning Center. These drawings are not intended to be finished plans. They are a starting point that interested parties that will eventually use to determine how the woods will be used. The drawings show three extremely different modifications of Anwatin Woods. Final plans may or may not reflect the vision shown in these preliminary drawings.
Click on the images below to see a higher resolution version of the plans, or click here to download a 9mg version plans in Adobe Acrobat format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF (Portable Document Format). If you do not have this software, it is available for a FREE download at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
