Escape the “Black Friday” stress with a family day out during “Green Friday,” happening November 27th! Find your perfect family Christmas tree, go zip lining (additional fee)**, get up close and personal with wildlife, and hike our trails! Warm up with a tasty cup of hot cocoa. After all, we believe the reason for the season is time spent with loved ones.
This is the start of our annual Christmas Tree Fundraiser, where our courtyard transforms into a festive Christmas Tree lot FULL of gorgeous trees! We will have fresh cut trees ranging from 6ft – 12ft tall. We will also have fresh fir wreaths and garland. The funds raised from all purchases will go toward caring for our wildlife ambassadors all winter long.
Admission into the Wildlife Park and NatureScape is $6 per adult and $4 per child, with infants 2 and under free. Zip lining is an additional $20 per person. You do not need to pay admission to explore our Tree Lot.
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Enjoy your second chance at life coyote friend!
For those of you who followed the story of the coyote who came to us after being trapped in a window well, we have wonderful news! She was released last week! We are SO thankful for the outpouring of support our community gave this special patient (yes, we know we call them all special, but they are!). Not only are we grateful that we were able to help her, but we are grateful that people saw the value in this often-villified animal. Coyotes play an important role in the ecosytem, and there are so many ways we can live in harmony with them. If you have questions about how to successfully do that, let us know!
Please don't forget to vote for us in the Detroit News Cheer for Charity contest to give us a shot at winning $20,000 to support our efforts in helping Michigan wildlife! detroitnews.secondstreetapp.com/2020-Holiday-Cheer-for-Charity/gallery
Escape the "Black Friday" stress with a family day out during "Green Friday," happening November 27th! Find your perfect family Christmas tree, go zip lining (additional fee)**, get up close and personal with wildlife, and hike our trails! Warm up with a tasty cup of hot cocoa. After all, we believe the reason for the season is time spent with loved ones. Learn more at howellnaturecenter.org/
This is the start of our annual Christmas Tree Fundraiser, where our courtyard transforms into a festive Christmas Tree lot FULL of gorgeous trees! We will have fresh cut trees ranging from 6ft - 12ft tall. We will also have fresh fir wreaths and garland. The funds raised from all purchases will go toward caring for our wildlife ambassadors all winter long.
Admission into the Wildlife Park and NatureScape is $6 per adult and $4 per child, with infants 2 and under free. Zip lining is an additional $20 per person. You do not need to pay admission to explore our Tree Lot. See you soon!
Opossums are full of neat adaptations! One of them is their prehensile tail, which they use as a fifth appendage. Check out our non-releasable opossum Dash using his tail to collect straw for his bed. Because he had to undergo a partial tail amputation, this task is a little harder for him, but don’t worry, we made him a nice & cozy bed!
Want to help support all of our wildlife ambassadors as well as the wildlife in our clinic? Vote for the Howell Nature Center in the Detroit News Cheer for Charity contest, today and everyday, so we can win $20,000! detroitnews.secondstreetapp.com/2020-Holiday-Cheer-for-Charity/gallery
Who is going to get the biggest tree on our lot? Standing at 15' tall, this tree towers over all of the others.
Christmas Tree Sales start at 9:00am this Friday, November 27th as a first come first serve. See you then!
The Christmas Trees have arrived!!
400 trees are being unloaded and set up, and will go on sale during our annual Christmas Tree Fundraiser this Friday! Save the date!
Learn more about our Christmas Tree Fundraiser at howellnaturecenter.org. Funds raised from the sale of trees, wreaths, and garlands will go toward caring for our animal ambassadors all winter long.
Thanks to your votes, we are in THIRD place for the Detroit News Cheer for Charity! We need to stay in the top five by December 2nd to move on to the second round for our chance to win $20,000 to help wildlife in need.
You can help by voting once a day at detroitnews.com/cheer2020
It's a no-cost way to support wildlife! Thank you so much for taking the time to vote and for helping spread the word!
Escape the "Black Friday" stress with a family day out during "Green Friday," happening November 27th! Find your perfect family Christmas tree, go zip lining (additional fee)**, get up close and personal with wildlife, and hike our trails! Warm up with a tasty cup of hot cocoa. After all, we believe the reason for the season is time spent with loved ones.
This is the start of our annual Christmas Tree Fundraiser, where our courtyard transforms into a festive Christmas Tree lot FULL of gorgeous trees! We will have fresh cut trees ranging from 6ft - 12ft tall. We will also have fresh fir wreaths and garland. The funds raised from all purchases will go toward caring for our wildlife ambassadors all winter long.
Admission into the Wildlife Park and NatureScape is $6 per adult and $4 per child, with infants 2 and under free. Zip lining is an additional $20 per person. You do not need to pay admission to explore our Tree Lot. See you soon!
This stunning juvenile bald eagle was brought to our Clinic yesterday by a DNR conservation officer. She was dehydrated, thin, and has injuries to both wings. She was given fluids and medication, and she will soon get X-rays so we can have a better understanding of what her wing injuries are. We are hopeful she will be able to recover for release back into the wild, but it will be a long process to get her back into good body condition with proper nutrition, for her injuries to heal, and for her to regain the strength and stamina needed to survive in the wild as a top predator. We are dedicated to doing everything we can to help give her a second chance at life. If you can, please consider helping her too with a donation! Our clinic is funded through our revenue, donations, and grants, so every little bit helps! We appreciate it!
Don't forget to vote for us once a day during Detroit News Holiday Cheer for Charity so that we can win $20,000 to help wildlife in need, like this eagle: detroitnews.com/cheer2020
Our Christmas Tree Fundraiser goes LIVE this Friday, November 27th!
Join us during "Green" Friday - Outdoor Alternative to Black Friday and have first pickings of our gorgeous Christmas tree selection. Funds raised from tree sales will support our work with wildlife!
Did you know that LIVE trees are better for the environment than artificial trees? Most artificial trees are made in China, and require intensive carbon emissions to produce and ship. Out of the 350-500 million growing on tree farms across the U.S., only 30 million trees are harvested for Christmas each year. Buying real trees will help keep tree farms in business – and in turn keep their lands covered in the healthy forest habitat that wildlife depends on to survive.
Real vs. Fake—Which Christmas tree is better for the environment?
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Want a more sustainable holiday? Looking for an eco-friendly Christmas tree? Here’s why buying a real Christmas tree this year can help the planet.Look who came to our Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic today! Do you know what species of bird this is? Check back tomorrow for the full story!
