Student at Dallas’s independent Lakehill Preparatory School once took outings to the country to learn about environmental science. No more. The Dallas Morning News reports that the school now boasts the $2.2 million Alice and Erle Nye Family Environmental Center just four miles from its campus in East Dallas. The idea for the center came from headmaster Roger Perry after he took noticed a swath of vacant land next to the school’s ball fields. The center, which was built to meet environmentally-friendly LEED standards, houses three science labs, a large meeting hall ,and a retention pond. It also abuts a 43-acre, city-owned urban forest that is home to White Rock Creek. Younger students can explore the wooded grounds, and then  take back to the lab and examine whatever interesting specimens they find. Next year, high school students will begin to use the center to study environmental issues. Perry tells the Morning News that Lakehill is not particularly innovative, because independent schools nationwide have long championed environmental studies. But, clearly, that once-vacant land has found excellent new application.

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