University students, faculty, and administrators gathered with their counterparts from Hartford’s Annie Fisher Elementary School, Weaver High School, and Watkinson School to celebrate the opening of the Greater Hartford Urban Outdoor Classroom, a series of nature trails that will be an important environmental education resource for the schools. The construction and development of the trails was coordinated by the Eastern CT Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D), with funding arranged by state Rep. Ken Green. The urban outdoor classroom project, which will have more than 50 learning stations to highlight various habitats along the north branch of the Park River, is aimed at bringing together students from public and private schools, from the elementary to the university level, to share this unique environment.