By KATIE FINCH Senior Nature Educator Audubon Community Nature Center’s (ACNC) mission, in part, is to build and nurture connections between people and nature. There are a lot of ways to connect to the natural world. It can happen through physical activities such as walking, biking, ...

Mid-summer is typically the time of year that my family reunion occurs, and we come from Texas and Massachusetts and Virginia and closer to settle into Venango County for the weekend. It is where the now-elders grew up and where the childhoods of the cousins were bonded together. Their stories ...

Turtles are amazing and resilient animals. They are some of the most-loved animals at Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC), whether they are seen basking on a log by the trail or swimming inside their aquarium in the center’s Discovery Room. Turtles inspired the turtle tower design ...

Imagine living your whole adult life without a mouth. From the moment you reach maturity, you are in the process of starving, your one goal is to mate and then you die. This sounds morbid to our human ears, but it is the reality for a beautiful creature: the Cecropia Moth. Last summer Audubon ...

Katie Madigan with her first turkey was the first place photo in the Warren County Treasurer’s Office first Turkey Photo Contest. Barrnone Walleye Fishing Charters donated a Turkey Fryer the top prize and Mr. D’s Seasonings donated All Purpose Seasoning and Hawaiian Huli Huli Seasoning. ...

Audubon just wrapped up our first week of summer day camp, which means I spent a decent amount of time outside with 8 – 11-year-olds exploring, hiking, and playing in the woods and wetlands. Along one of these hikes, one of the campers stopped to look at a daisy and found a small, white ...