The Patrick Marsh Middle School Discovery Club is a weekly after-school activity that provides an opportunity for students to learn more about their natural environment through authentic wildlife research. The club maintains ongoing migratory bird, small mammal, amphibian, and water quality monitoring studies at the Patrick Marsh Wildlife Area. Through its activities, the club hopes to expand community awareness of the Patrick Marsh as an educational resource, to increase the use of the Marsh in PMMS curriculum, to provide useful management data to DNR staff and to expose middle-school youth to the fun and rigors of field research.