The Arboretum grounds will be CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC Sunday, June 4 and Saturday, June 10 for private events.

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"With an Abundance of Caution"

With an Abundance of Caution


We are in full session of camp and our children are enjoying everything that we environmental educators have planned for them. Go for the Gold, Insect Safari, Life in the Sea, Food Explosion, Animal Olympics, Wonderfully Weird, and Sensing Nature are all at full enrollme...

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The Little Things

Sometimes when I go for a walk around the grounds I sometimes forget we are in the middle of a pandemic. While Covid-19 has turned our world upside down, the natural world is moving along as if nothing has changed – the flowers are blooming, the bees are pollinating, the fireflies are dancing; nature seems the way it have always been, rather normal. Though in nature, nothing is ever normal.

Whenever I am talking about adaptations, I always tell my audience, "Everything in nature – ...

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Camp in a Box

Camp in a box! Well, technically Camp in a Bag, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it...

To say that 2020 has been a unique year is the understatement of the millennium. This is especially true for parents of young children – many of whom had to suddenly drop everything and become teachers. Some parents had to keep working and become teachers on top of that! (Not to mention all the teachers, who are also parents, but then had to do both from home!!!)

It's been a tough...

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