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Rivers Institute announces plans for an Outdoor Environmental Training Center
The Hanover College campus holds many hidden treasures and the Rivers Institute has plans to share those with the public. This fall, RIH began work on a series of projects that will create an outdoor environmental training center for Hanover College which will include improving the trail system, converting the YMCA building into a classroom, building a teaching pavilion, installing an organic garden, and constructing an Ohio River observation platform.
Some of the current trail system has been cleaned and updated to accommodate people of
all ages as well as larger groups. Additional work on the trails will continue next summer. The YMCA building is being repaired as a classroom, and an outdoor pavilion installed near-by to provide an outdoor educational teaching center for school groups, summer camps, teachers and students. Hanover College owns an attractive piece of beach-front property on the Ohio River that will become the site for a river observation deck and site for the study of river and stream ecology.
Hanover College will continue to be a one of the most beautiful college campuses, and in the future it will also be an extraordinary campus for learning environmental science.