Wetlands Education Team

Irene McMullen sent this updated report.

The Wetlands Education Team is happy to report that we testified at a House Hearing for Bill 57 on March 25, 2009. Our testimony in favor of making the Spotted Salamander Ohio's state amphibian was very well received. Students from Central Intermediate School in Wadsworth and representatives from the Ohio Environmental Council and the Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District also spoke. We will all be in Columbus again on April 21, 2009 to testify before the Senate Committee on Senate Bill 81. Senator Grendell has been very helpful in this regard. Senate Bill 81 is also co-sponsored by Senator Hughes, the Chair of the Committee. The Wetlands Education Team will be traveling to Washington DC on May 11, 2009 to receive the President's Environmental Youth Award. We will meet with representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency and our legislators to talk to them about the importance of wetlands to all Ohioans. WET would like to thank everyone at FOWL for bringing so much support to the effort to have the Spotted Salamander designated as Ohio's state amphibian. We believe it will happen in this session because of your help and the assistance of many other dedicated citizens from around the state. So, thank you, FOWL!

It was a treat to meet Irene's young and dedicated students at the workshop. They are an inspiration.
See Teens for Planet Earth
also Christopher Columbus Awards
and U.S. Dept. of the Interior