What will be the future of nature centers under a Donald Trump presidency? I find myself wondering about that this week. Certainly, the new President opposes many things that most nature centers (and the folks who run them) care deeply about. He is likely to open more federal lands to… read more →
When a nature center and all its components are well designed, they help you achieve your goals and objectives. When they aren’t, they sometimes get in the way of the work you are trying to achieve. Because so much of the work I do involves designing new nature centers or… read more →
I like to learn about nature centers by reading their reviews on TripAdvisor, Yelp, and similar websites. There are praising remarks and critical ones, but nothing says “Kiss of Death” like a review that describes a center as “______’s best-kept secret.” The reviewers may consider “best-kept secret” to be a… read more →
Let me return (finally!) to the topic I launched in my post of November 4. Every nature center makes investments, and presumably every nature center seeks some sort of return. As I wrote several months ago, that return is unique to your organization, and you (or your management, or your… read more →
The more I read the research about what leads people to become motivated conservationists, the more I believe that the most important work nature centers do is with the very young—pre-reading age children who are still filled with a sense of wonder, and who are forming the affinities and emotional… read more →
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