Irvine Nature Center - Owings Mills MD
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Don.Morfe
N 39° 25.998 W 076° 45.768
18S E 348286 N 4366344
The Irvine Nature Center is located at 11201 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills MD. It includes a 17,200 square-foot green exhibit hall, classrooms, outdoor classroom and amphitheater and trails. It has 80,000 visitors a year.
Waymark Code: WM13QCQ
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2021
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From Wikipedia in part:
"Irvine Nature Center is a nature center in Owings Mills, Maryland. The center, which is set on 210 acres (0.85 km2) of land in the Caves Valley Historic District, includes a 17,200-square-foot (1,600 m2) green exhibit hall, classrooms, outdoor classroom, amphitheater and trails. Irvine has 80,000 visitors a year.
The center is renowned for holding green weddings. There are also family nature programs, summer camps and the Nature Preschool. Irvine is one of the first in the country to hold a Nature Preschool Conference for educators looking to add nature to their education to the 3-5 year old set.
History-Irvine Nature Center was founded by Olivia Irvine Dodge in 1975 in an old barn on the grounds of St. Timothy's School in Stevenson, Maryland. Its purpose was to teach children about the vulnerability of the planet.
Today, Irvine is the only private, non-profit nature center in the region. Its mission is educate and inspire current and future generations to explore, respect and protect nature.
The center relocated to Owings Mills in 2008, after St. Timothy’s sold part of its property, reducing the space available for Irvine ‘s outdoor programs. The state of Maryland, which had owned the current location, donated it to the center for its use. The land was formerly part of the Rosewood Center. In October 2015, Irvine received a large gift from the Charles T. Bauer Charitable Foundation, which enabled Irvine to purchase an additional 93 acres of neighboring land, now named Bauer Preserve, and brings the total acreage to 210 acres. The current site has a diverse array of Piedmont habitats, including open wetlands, upland forest, meadow, forested wetlands and farmland, and includes also the headwaters of the Jones Falls and Gwynns Falls watersheds."
Open Year Round?: yes
Interpretive Programs?: yes
Live Animal Displays: no
Hours: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Visitors should visit the Nature Center and post a photo of themselves (or GPS unit) either inside or outside of the nature center visited. Logs without photos WILL be allowed if a lenghty description of one's visit and a mention of what they learned is included.