When children discover the wonders of wetlands--we all benefit! Knowledgeable students become good citizens, inspired to conserve and improve the physical environments we all share and upon which we all depend. Quality wetlands education leads to a better quality of life. For people, who rely on wetlands for clean water, flood control, and recreation. And for hundreds of plant and animal species that call these places home.

Students also receive immeasurable personal benefits from participating in Project Webfoot. There are the direct benefits they get from becoming Greenwing members:

•  A one-year subscription to Puddler magazine

•  A Greenwing membership certificate

•  A Greenwing membership card

•  A Pocket Waterfowl ID guide

•  A wetland sticker collection

And then there are the less tangible rewards that accrue when one adds the three Es--Environmental Ecological Education--to the traditional three Rs. Young people begin to make connections. They discover that the arts and sciences are not created in a vacuum or on computer screens, but through real involvement in the natural world. They are inspired to seek firsthand experience in the outdoors. And they become impassion, motivated, and empowered to conserve what is no longer an abstraction to them, but something they know and love.