PVIA Chairman Dr. Ken Hammond and local area middle schoolers pose with a newly planted floating wetland at Lake Wister, April 21, 2010

For Earth Day 2010 the Choctaw Nation and the Poteau Valley Improvement Authority (PVIA) sponsored an educational event for local middle schoolers at Lake Wister. Students helped finish building and then planted two floating wetlands which were added to those already in the lake.

Read more about floating wetland workshops here.