New environmental center at Saint Edward park

University of Washington Bothell faculty and staff are helping plan an environmental learning center that would make more use of Saint Edward State Park as an outdoor classroom and living laboratory.

David Stokes, a professor of ecology and conservation biology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS), envisions the Environmental Education and Research Center (EERC) as a base for community-based scholarship and mentoring.

“The diversity of habitat — forest, wetland, streams and lake — makes a great place to teach. It has so much to offer,” Stokes said.