2012 highlights
Coverdale Farm Preserve
Expands Programs
A healthy living focus offered a wide range of programs on
nutrition, exercise, healthy eating and farming for preschoolers to
8th graders. One example of this is the Healthy Eating, Healthy
Living Program Series, which was offered in partnership with
Urban Promise, an educational organization working in the most
under-resourced neighborhoods of Wilmington.
Abbott’s Mill Nature Center
reaches Seaford Schools
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training
(B-WET Chesapeake) grant began.
DEEC Advisory Committee
Created a group comprised of Wilmington community members
to help shape programming and activities at the DuPont
Environmental Education Center.
School Visits on the Increase
Delaware Nature Society school programs grew by more than
29% at DuPont Environmental Education Center and by more
than 15% at Ashland Nature Center.
Connecting Children and Nature
Reached a diverse audience of children through deeper, multiple day
hands-on nature experiences, including 8 Young Waterfowlers, 23
Teen Naturalists and 57 Camp Counselors and 1154 Summer Camp
participants.
Hawk Watch Soars
Ashland Nature Center’s Hawk Watch program counted a record
17,000 raptors, representing 15 different species, counted during
the seven-week fall migration season.
New Solar
Photovoltaic panels were installed at Ashland Nature Center,
Coverdale Farm Preserve and Abbott’s Mill Nature Center.
Gardening for Wildlife
Delaware Nature Society’s Backyard Habitat Program, offered
in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation, certified 46
new Wildlife Habitats. Program expanded into Kent and Sussex
Counties with the new Backyard Habitat Coordinator at Abbott’s
Mill Nature Center.
Red Clay Valley Scenic Byway
Spearheading Red Clay Valley Scenic Byway Alliance efforts to
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