... The Telegraph/JlMf BOWLINGwatershed Nature Center education coordinator Cara Noyes points out a squirrel’s nest while showing the kindergarten class the treehouse on the Nature Center trail In Edwardsvllle. students were asked If they could see different parts of nature In the treehouse that they couldn't see when they were on the ground. Watershed was founded In 1991 when community activists John and Kay Kendall proposed turning Edwardsvllle s abandoned sewage lagoon Into a nature preserve.