Believe + Value + Action

If we believe that the wetlands are a critical component of our existence, we will value them.  If we value them, we will take actions to understand and preserve them.

Man's Intervention

It would be one thing if coastal erosion/wetland loss was part of God's natural plan for things, but unfortunately it is man's interventions of canals, roads, and levees that are causing these disruptive and degenerative processes in our coastal wetlands. 

I think it is important that we as students and teachers search for ways of intervening and/or interacting with the wetlandscape in a manner that both enhances our understanding of it and aids in its recovery, rather than adding to its demise. 

Through a combination of actual field experience and critical analysis of the wetlandscape, our understanding of nature's inherent design begins.  It is the position of studiEAUX that our understanding of nature's inherent design grows when we interact with nature by testing our own designs in its milieu.  By engaging in the process of design, what we could not see and understand prior to the process becomes revealed.  Questions that we could not ask before present themselves to us.