GREENWAYS & NATURAL LANDS

Education

Seminole County Natural Land sites can serve as wonderful outdoor classrooms and provide a great opportunity for first hand learning. Students can visit these sites with natural lands staff and participate in activities such as wildlife inventory and vegetation mapping, and learn about topics like bio-diverstity, conservation management, and prescribed burning. The Natural Lands staff can also bring a little of the outdoors in to your classroom and provide an interesting and exciting hands-on learning experience.

Located at the 180 acre Geneva Wilderness Area, the Ed Yarborough Nature Center is an air-conditioned learning center that accommodates up to 40 students. A variety of exhibits and educational materials introduce visitors to the local ecology of Seminole County. Some of these exhibits include living terrariums complete with native flora and fauna, a bird feeding station, insect and butterfly displays, and much more. This facility is available for environmental programs, classes and activities. For more information please contact the Natural Lands Program at (407) 349-0959.

Visit the Kid's Corner for lots of fun facts, cool stuff, coloring pages, and more!

Demonstrations available on wildlife, land management, conservation and endangered species. Natural Lands staff can bring slides, live specimens, skulls, maps, and other related visual aides to give students a hands-on experience as they learn about this important County program.

Classes are invited to join Natural Lands staff at any of the 7 sites currently managed by Seminole County. Students can observe firsthand the activities that staff perform to conserve these natural areas and the wildlife that inhabits them. See Wilderness Areas for details on where our properties are located.

Do you ever see critters that you don't recognize, plants that don't quite ring a bell, or just have a question about nature or ecology in general? Now you have an opportunity to get these kinds of questions answered.  Simply click on the link below, fill out the form, and you will get a response from one of our staff within a week. We promise. (Hey, if we can't answer your question, we'll look it up.)

Click Here to 'Ask the Ecologist'