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Western North Carolina Nature Center
75 Gashes Creek Road
Asheville, NC 28805 |
(828) 298-5600
Fax (828) 298-2644 |
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| The Nature Society, now
known as the Friends of the WNC Nature Center was formed in March 1975, and together with
Center staff developed the Nature Centers mission: To educate the public to the natural
history and ecology of the Southern Appalachians. The Friends serve as a non-profit
organization dedicated to improving the Nature Center. With a "hands on" Nature
Lab and Educational Farm with petting area, children are invited to touch a corn snake,
hold a turtle, or feel angora, pre-sheared. All of our animals have been injured or are
imprinted on people and cannot be returned to the wild. The new habitats are examples of
future care, gone are the days of cages and bars. As time passed the Center gradually
became a sanctuary for the animals who had been "pets" (like the cougars,
bobcats and raccoons) or raised from a program to save a species for reintroduction (such
as the red wolves).
Many of the Nature Center staff are recognized as regional specialists and serve as
consultants to zoos and other wildlife habitats. The staff has done a superb job in
helping to make the Western North Carolina Nature Centers one of the best of its kind in
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Main
Exhibit Building
Box Turtles; Eastern Hellbender; Southern Bog Turtle; Least Weasel; Timber
Rattlesnake; Northern Copperhead; Black Widow; Brown Recluse
Predator Habitat
Red Wolves; Gray Wolf; Cougars; Bobcats
Nocturnal Hall
Eastern Cottontail; Southern Flying Squirrel; Green Heron; Screech Owls; Big Brown
Bats; Striped Skunk; Virginia Opossum; Barred Owl
Otter
Habitat
River Otter
Educational Farm
Chicken, Dominique; Chicken, Rhode Island Red; Cow, Red Devon; Donkey, Sicilian; Goat,
African Pygmy; Goat, Angora; Goat, Oberhasli; Peafowl, Indian; Sheep, Dorset Horn; Sheep;
Southdown
Petting
Area
African Pygmy goats
Trillium Glen Nature Trail.
2/3 of a mile (30 minutes to an hour to walk)
Log Cabin
HOURS
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Seven Days A Week
CLOSED:
Thanksgiving
Christmas
New Year's Day
Martin L. King Day
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