World Wetlands Day is an annual event to help raise awareness about the importance of wetlands. It is celebrated on February 2nd – the day in 1971 that the Convention on Wetlands (often called the Ramsar Convention) became an international treaty. Learn More

At fenlife, our wetland is mostly frozen but it doesn’t mean that we forget about it! Underneath all of that soil and ice the fen is still holding water and storing carbon.

As you’ll learn through our blog, we work to both protect our wetland and enjoy it all year round. Through our upcoming blog posts we’ll hope that you’ll learn a bit about the science of wetlands while also gaining an appreciation for the many natural surprises we enjoy while we’re there, like hearing the owls and frogs hoot and chirp under the starry skies, seeing the sandhill cranes as they stop on their migration and stopping to wonder who made the latest set of footprints.