Where Leisure Meets Learning
Register now for the spring session of Forest Friends or Tree Tots.
These unique programs offer children 18 mos to 5 years old and their caregivers a fantastic and hands-on education focused on nature and appreciation for our natural world.
Read more on our website.
Become a birding volunteer at the KPNC! We need volunteers to help with all of our birding initiatives including cleaning and refilling bird feeders, monitoring nest boxes, assisting with birding workshops, and simply watching birds across the property. Orientations have been scheduled for 10:00 AM on Sat, Feb 8 and Sat, Feb 15 at the KPNC Pavilion. No pre-registration necessary – just show up and we’ll get you started with our birding volunteer program.
Registration is now open for our Spring Break Camps, our Summer Ecology Camps, and our new Summer Adventure Camp!
Register today because these camps fill up fast!
This holiday season, consider supporting conservation and environmental education by gifting a membership to the KPNC.
If you or someone in your life loves nature and wants to help protect it by promoting a sense of passion and stewardship for our environment, then consider supporting the KPNC. In addition to the many benefits of membership, from members-only programming to informational newsletters, you will also be helping in one of the most intense environmental education efforts in the region. Each year, the Nature Center inspires over 6000 students and 30000 visitors to see the beauty of nature and understand its fragility; ultimately leading to a more environmentally friendly future!
Our FREE guided hikes in December will focus on birds and what they eat during the winter months. We will look for birds at our birding blind and throughout the nature center. Come and see how many you can find!
Family Discovery Hikes are hosted at 3:30 PM on the second Tuesday of each month and are for the whole family.
Nature Walks are hosted at 8:30 AM on the second Thursday of each month and are for adults only.
Come and help us find Santa in the Kreher Nature Center forest!!
Join us for this unique and fun, nature “Santa-hunt” where we hike the Preserve looking for animals, plants, and the elusive visitor in red. Once you find him, you’ll have the opportunity to visit and discuss just what you hope to get on Christmas Day! After the hike, return to enjoy a cup of hot cocoa around a warm fire.
Continue reading “HoHoHo Hike Saturday”Climate change is on the lips of everyone, from corporate and government leaders to family members around your dinner table. Opinions, assumptions, and rumor are epidemic creating a massive deluge of unreliable information. How serious is the threat of climate change and how realistic is it to think that we can reverse it… or even slow it down?
Environmental expert, Lella Lowe, will be at the KPNC to answer these questions and bring some clarity about our climate. Lella was a founding member of the Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition in 2014, a member of the inaugural class of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Academy in 2016/17, and received certification by The Climate Reality Project in March of this year. Lella’s informative and straight-forward presentation will address the reality of climate change and how it effects you.
This presentation is free and open to the public, and appropriate for all ages.
Join us Friday, Nov 1, for the last AUsome Amphibians and Reptiles of 2019!
Aubie will be joining us, as well as a myriad of incredible amphibians and reptiles from our friends at the Department of Biological Sciences.
AUsome Amphibians is a one-hour presentation on the awesome amphibians and reptiles found in our state and beyond! Children and adults will enjoy this entertaining, hands-on program with live animals.
Admission is $5/person. Children 3 and under are free. Pre-registration is not required. Proceeds benefit the Kreher Preserve & Nature Center.
This program is held at the Kreher Preserve & Nature Center located at 2222 N. College Street near the AU Fisheries and Hwy 280. For more information, visit auburn.edu/preserve, email preserve@auburn.edu, or call 334-844-8091.
Thursday and Friday, Oct 24 & 29, come and see the Kreher Preserve & Nature Center’s forest become enchanted!!
This fun, family-friendly Halloween hike takes visitors through the nature center’s enchanted forest to meet our woodland characters. Get your tickets now!
Continue reading “The KPNC’s Enchanted Forest!”Join us for a one-hour presentation on the AUsome amphibians and reptiles found in our state and beyond! Children and adults will enjoy this entertaining, hands-on program with live animals.
Admission is $5/person. Children 3 and under are free. Pre-registration is not required. Proceeds benefit the Kreher Preserve & Nature Center.
This program is held at the Kreher Preserve & Nature Center located at 2222 N. College Street near the AU Fisheries and Hwy 280. For more information, visit auburn.edu/preserve, email preserve@auburn.edu, or call 334-844-8091.