Congratulations to students from the College of Wooster who created the following video describing our Fox Creek restoration! We enjoyed working with you.
Native Plant Sale
View catalogs for our Native Plant Sale and plan your gardens now. Online ordering will begin on April 1st!
Junior Naturalist
Help your children explore nature out your back door and around the world this summer!
Backyard Habitat Initiative
Learn how your actions at home can build complex food webs, protect watersheds, connect fragmented habitats and store carbon.
Your Wild Classroom
Enhance your elementary student’s natural science studies with monthly courses that will get your child outside – observing, studying, and learning.
Consulting Forestry
TWC Consulting Forestry is a professional consulting business that provides complete forest management and timber services for private landowners.
Foxfield Preserve
Foxfield Preserve is a conservation burial ground operated by The Wilderness Center, offering a beautiful resting place and a meaningful legacy.
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Sometimes quite sizable, as seen here, the Eastern garter snake is our most common snake in Ohio. 🐍
A shy creature, it feeds upon earthworms, frogs, fish, and other prey that it can swallow without first constricting. Its main defense is not to bite, but to squirt foul- smelling musk and excretions upon its attacker, as shown in this photo.
There is still time to be entered to win our GRAND PRIZE of a $100 Gift Card to Lehman's , a free family membership to TWC, and TWC Swag from our nature store.
Donate to our Annual Campaign by June 30th and you might be our Grand Prize winner.
"Go out, go out I beg of you
And taste the beauty of the wild.
Behold the miracle of the earth
With all the wonder of a child." -Edna Jaques
What miracles of the earth have you experienced over the last week?
#wildernesscenter #MindfulnessMonday #ohionature #whatgetsyououtdoors
Moon, Mars and Venus
On Sunday, June 13, by 9:30p.m. or better yet 10:00p.m. look to the west and you will see the thin waxing crescent of a three-day old Moon over the red planet Mars. If you have binoculars both should be in your field of view. Just to the North and lower in the sky you will see the bright planet Venus. Venus will set about 10:30p.m. and Mars will set about an hour later at 11:30p.m. Both planets will be in the early evening sky throughout June. As each night goes by the two will appear to be getting closer as Mars is sinking toward the setting Sun and Venus is moving up in the sky, away from the Sun.
#astronomy #moon #Mars #Venus #whatgetsyououtoors #nightsky
We had such fun building mason bee houses and toad houses and got to meet Wildlife Ambassadors Barnaby and Tara (check out our stories for videos of Tara!) at today’s Family Backyard Habitat program! #backyardhabitat #backyardhabitats #communityconservation #wildernesscenter #supportyourlocalwildlife
