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  Minnie’s Island is an 8.5-acre wooded island in the middle of the Potomac Gorge on the Potomac River. It is managed as a wildlife preserve by The Potomac Conservancy and is the centerpiece of the Conservancy’s Potomac Living Laboratory program, an interactive river education program for middle and high school age students in the Potomac River watershed. The goal is to teach today’s young people to become tomorrow’s river stewards. Located just downstream of Lockhouse 8 on the C&O Canal, the Minnie's Island Preserve provides a unique outdoor classroom for lessons on topics such as water quality monitoring, bird and wildlife identification, river ecology, native plant identification and restoration. Students have also helped to restore degraded riparian habitat (see Riparian Forestland Restoration in the Resource Issues section) by planting native trees and shrubs and removing exotic plants that threaten native plant ecosystems on Minnie's Island and nearby National Park land. Panorama taken October 17, 2001 |
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