Environmental Economics Class on Sugar Creek
Wabash Economics Professor Christie Byun's Environmental Economics class
got a close up view of their subject last week, taking a tour of Sugar
Creek by car and canoe led by Friends of Sugar Creek Project Coordinator
Nate Mullendore ’07. Mullendore works out of an office at the College's
Kane House.
Photos by Nate Mullendore
Mullendore guided students to one of the places along the creek where
erosion has taken out the banks. Damage to the creek affects not only
businesses depending on the creek for revenue, but other businesses
dependent on tourism and recreation in the area.
Students survey erosion on the creek.
Professor Byun learns to skip stones as the class prepares to canoe
Sugar Creek.
