One of the perks of working at most nature centers and similar places is that you get, at least occasionally, packets of hand-illustrated thank you notes from school children who have visited. One of the ones I remember best was addressed to an educator on my staff, displaying a portrait… read more →
I’ll admit it—I’m one of those people who sees things as they are, and says “Why?” And frankly, I wish I’d started doing it sooner. It’s a question I don’t think gets asked often enough at nature centers. There are lots of people in our profession who ask, “Why not?”… read more →
“The nature center is a new idea,” wrote Byron Ashbaugh in his National Audubon Society bulletin Planning a Nature Center. The year was 1963. The Audubon Center in Greenwich (CT) had opened in 1942—it’s the oldest nature center I can find. (Anybody know of an older one?) Other centers I… read more →
Recent Comments