Celebrating the Land

Landscape Architecture students who took Nick Pouder’s Ecological Planning & Design studio several years ago have reason to celebrate today as they’re seeing the fruits of their labor pay off.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is doing the honors at the grand opening of the East Kent Hamlet Nature Preserve, a former Girl Scout camp in Connecticut that is being preserved in perpetuity as open land for hikers and nature lovers.

RISD students helped analyze and map the area prior to its purchase, noting that the 263 wooded acres include such historic sites as Kent County’s first iron forge and the Barnum family farm and are home to bobcats, bears and barn owls.