It may be hot, but there’s still Beauty to Behold at Wind Wolves Preserve
Wind Wolves Preserve. Photo by Aaron Collier.
It’s hot out there! With temperatures on the rise, The Wildlands Conservancy’s Wind Wolves Preserve has transitioned to summer evening programming including Night Hikes and Movies in the Canyon. On August 6, join us for a special evening event, Behold the Beauty of the Night Sky, to enjoy the wonders of the stars. You can find out more about our free programs below, or visit our program calendar online.
Besides free programming at the Preserve, our outdoor education team has been out in the community sharing The Wildlands Conservancy’s work. You can catch the team and a few of our resident reptiles at Shafter Library & Learning Center on July 28 starting at 12 noon.
As summer ramps up, we reflect on the work that was accomplished before the heat of the season set in:
After a two-year hiatus, we were thrilled to welcome school groups back to the Preserve this spring to participate in our free Outdoor Discovery Program field trips. These students joined more than 200,000 other Kern County kids who have participated in a free program at Wind Wolves Preserve since 1998. While schools are out for the summer, we’re taking reservations for the 2022-23 school year. Teachers and homeschool leaders can contact the outdoor education team for more information.
Taking full advantage of spring weather, several research teams, from local groups to universities as far away as France, conducted surveys and studies of local botany, biology, archeology and paleontology. You can learn about some of these studies in the articles below.
For the safety of staff, visitors, wildlife, and for the protection of natural resources, our rangers and maintenance technicians were hard at work creating and maintaining fuel breaks across the Preserve. These fuel breaks help to limit the destruction of a wildfire if one were to occur. You can help prevent fires when you visit by abiding by our no smoking policy and ensuring to keep vehicles on the pavement or in designated parking areas only; we can all do our part to protect the Beauty of Wind Wolves Preserve.
We look forward to sharing the Beauty of Wind Wolves Preserve with you this summer, and, if you’re traveling through California this summer, be sure to explore The Wildlands Conservancy’s other locations. Check out our interactive map to learn more about our preserve system, the largest nonprofit nature preserve system on the West Coast.
-The Wind Wolves Preserve Team
PS: The Wildlands Conservancy is hiring! If you have a passion for teaching and nature, we invite you to check out our current job listing for a part-time Bilingual Naturalist (English/Spanish). You can find more information about this and other exciting opportunities to join the TWC team here.