This includes a total of 57 delegations from 36 foreign countries. In developing and conducting the education program, this effort cooperates with many partners. In the development of educational efforts at Horicon Marsh, we first built an Education Program, and are now working on building an appropriate and comprehensive Education Center to house these programs and services. We are the means by which people can understand the natural resources which they are responsible for and the ecosystem which we are all a part of. Fifty years ago, one of Wisconsin's great ecologists and educators, Aldo Leopold, first proposed the concept of a Land Ethic.
Ethics are rules of conduct for a society.
We have developed ethics regarding how we treat other people, but have yet to develop an ethic of how we should treat land. As land use today becomes an ever-increasingly important issue, this Education Center and its program will provide the focus for wise decisions about resource use. When we begin to see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to treat it with love and respect. The convention on the most globally significant wetlands on earth has included the Horicon Marsh as a wetland whose value extends beyond the borders of our state. However, an International Education Center is so named not only because of the designation of the marsh, but because of the way the education program functions.