Wild Kitchen

Wild Kitchen

By Katie Finch 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,...
Change is Natural

Change is Natural

By Sarah Hatfield 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...
Cecropia Moths

Cecropia Moths

By Emma Roth 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:...
Crab Spiders

Crab Spiders

By Chelsea Jandreau 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...
Ticks

Ticks

By Katie Finch, Senior Nature Educator I often write or talk about the wonder and beauty of nature. But nature can also be uncomfortable and risky. Dangers that first come to mind may be large predators such as bears and mountain lions. But it’s the little things that...
How to Help Wildlife

How to Help Wildlife

By Emma Roth. Baby birds on the ground, turtles in the road, and fawns seemingly abandoned by their mothers. It is that time of year when all sorts of wildlife seems in desperate need of our help. But do they really need us? Most of the time, the answer is easy: no....