Boy Scout Builds, Installs Environmental Education Signs In Providence Park

MILTON, GA Visitors to Providence Park can now learn more about what surrounds them – not to mention how to get around the park – thanks to Scout Ronan Chandaria.

Chandaria, a Milton High School sophomore and member of Troop 841, built ten signs and their bases over the past few weeks. And last weekend, he led a team of volunteers in installing them at different spots along Providence Park’s new, wheelchair accessible trail to go from the parking lot to the lake. This effort serves as Ronan's Eagle Scout project.

Eight of the signs are educational, allowing people to soak in knowledge about the local ecosystem. For example, they might learn about osprey perching by Providence Lake, mushrooms sprouting along the trail, or bees and other pollinators buzzing around. The other two are way finding signs with a map of all of Providence Park.

This initiative aligns with the city’s drive to increase, year-over-year, the number of environmental education signs in city-owned spaces, particularly its parks and preserves. Not only can such signs earn points toward the National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat certification, they can connect people with the city’s outdoors spaces and everything in them. And more engaged people, ideally, are more likely to be aware of and to protect the environment.

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