TOUR > The Wetlands Welcome to the wet and wild tour A twenty
acre tract between Georgia Highlands College and the Floyd
County Industrial Park has been set aside as a protected natural
wetland ecosystem in effort to preserve valuable biodiversity,
improve water quality through natural means, and encourage
public interest and education in environmental science
(continues, right). Through cooperative efforts among public and
private agencies, a 1200-foot boardwalk, including two
observation platforms, has been built through previously
inaccessible willow swampland. There's much more about the
wetlands below, so please click "continue". Designed and built
by Georgia Highlands College plant operations personnel and
funded from various public and private sources, the boardwalk
was dedicated in 1996. Since then, student groups of all ages
have participated in field trips, water quality studies, and
species inventory. The boardwalk also provides an extension to
the popular recreational perimeter trail around Georgi