WEHR’s 50 Year legacy
Welcome to Wehr Nature Center, where nature is accessible to all, year-round. Our commitment is to create a welcoming environment for everyone, regardless of age, ability, or background. Explore our accessible park features, including a 1-mile All Abilities loop trail with a hard surface boardwalk, an accessible pier overlooking Mallard Lake, and an observation blind under expansion. Our Visitor Center exhibits and restrooms are universally designed for comfort and convenience.
At Wehr Nature Center, we believe nature is for everyone, and we’re dedicated to making it a reality. Join us and experience the beauty of nature, accessible to all.
We’re celebrating in style
March 8 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Maple syrup is so much more than a pancake topper. Join us at our 47th Annual Maple Sugar Days Saturday, March 8th and Sunday, March 9th to hear the surprising stories behind your favorite sticky treat. Tickets are LIVE! Advanced registration required. Walk-in’s welcome if space allows.
Exploring the sights and sounds of the critters and creatures at Wehr through a child’s eyes! In celebration of Wehr Nature Center’s 50th anniversary, we interviewed kids on where they think Wehr (and the world) will be in another 50 years.
Every person deserves to have access to nature year round. Wehr Nature Center is committed to sustaining an accessible nature destination; a place for all seasons, a place for everyone.
Wehr Nature Center inspires all generations to explore and value the plants and animals of our natural world through experiential education, accessible trails, native landscapes and natural areas.
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Featured Program
Veterans from all service branches – Active Duty, Reserve, and Retired personnel are invited to attend monthly walks at Wehr Nature Center. For approximately one to one and a half hours, we will travel on the trails of Wehr Nature Center to share camaraderie and experience seasonal nature happenings.
One bird’s mess is another bird’s meal! Wehr’s Wild Turkeys will gladly clean up the stray seed thrown to the ground by busy birds at the feeders. It’s quite a sight to find cardinals, doves, and sparrows eating right alongside these giant turkeys.
January – March 2025 Newsletter
The close of Wehr’s 50th year marked a special year for the center. Unpack highlights from 2024 and discover the many opportunities to engage with Wehr in 2025. From Brews and Shoes to Maple Sugar Days, winter at Wehr is full of events and programs for people all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. Newsletter Editor and Naturalist, Bev Bryant shares:
“Read our article “Wehr’s Winters Aren’t What They Used to Be” to learn how winter warming impacts plants and animals in this issue of Wehr Words. Look for articles throughout 2025 that explore this critical issue.”
It might be cold today, but Spring Break is only six weeks away. NEW! Wehr is offering a one-day Spring Into Nature Day camp for 1st-3rd graders on Thursday, March 27, 9 am-4 pm. Come to Wehr to discover how our backyard birds are related to T. Rex at "Dinosaurs are Not Extinct". Space is limited so register soon at: tinyurl.com/9mjudte7
We are celebrating women in science all of this week leading up to our Women and Girls in Science Event on February 9th from 1-4pm at the Kosciuszko Community Center. The event is free, but we do ask to register so we can let our scientist know how many folks to expect. Please see this link to find out more about the event and to register: buff.ly/4hQ1rMU Today we are celebrating those who work in engineering and robotics.Dr. Ellen Ochoa, a distinguished American engineer and astronaut, was the former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. As the first Hispanic woman to venture into space, she has amassed a remarkable career marked by four space flights and nearly 1000 hours spent in the cosmos. Commencing her professional tenure at Sandia National Laboratories, Ochoa delved into research on optical systems tailored for information processing, automated space exploration, and computational frameworks for aerospace missions.Her work as a research engineer led to one patent and three co-inventor patents for optical systems. Her work as an engineer is especially notable given the low number of women, particularly women of color, in the field. Her three co-inventions related to optics are optical inspection system, an optical object recognition method, and a method for noise removal in images. Her inventions significantly increased the ability to capture and analyze finely detailed imagery, including applications in space and on the Earth. Our friends at Greendale Robotics Team Alien will be at our Women and Girls in Science event allowing participants to drive their robots as well as a few other activities. We are really excited to be partnering with this high school team. Greendale Robotics Team ALIEN started in 2020 and has been dedicated to encouraging inclusion of girls in robotics and STEM ever since. Team managers Evie and Ava recognized the need when they were the only girls in their High School Engineering class and have worked tirelessly to correct that. They've created STEM curriculums for over 50 different after-school classes and summer camps, done STEM activity booths at almost 100 community events, started a new chapter of FIRST Ladies to encourage girls to enter robotics, taught a dozen Girl Scout Robotics lessons, and hosted online STEM Sisters events for girls across the country. One of their Team Leaders, was actually last year's recipient of the Deb McRae Scholarship
Enjoy perks like free parking, discounts on select programs and events and more!
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