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Enjoy the premier festival that celebrates all things nature and environment in WNY! Crafts for kids, live animals, hands-on activities, food, and more!Activities include:
Explore the Lily Pond
Win a prize with the Kids' Scavenger Hunt
Visit our Rescue Turtles
Make a Nature Journal and nature crafts
Pitch a tent- as fast as you can!
Test your birding skills at the Spotting Scope Station
Test your outdoor know-how at the Leave No Trace Station
Enjoy fun activities with partner organizations, including hoverball archery, fossil "digging," and more!
Walks and talks:
10:30 Messinger Woods Wildlife Rehab Talk*
11:15 DEC Drone Demonstration*
12:15 The Job of a Forest Ranger*
1:30 Tree ID Hike with DEC Forester
2:00 Bird Walk with Reinstein Staff
2:30 Bird Walk with Reinstein Staff
* ASL Interpreter provided
The NFTA Parks Adventure Bus is offering free transportation from the main terminal in Buffalo to the festival. Visit the NFTA website for more details.
Exhibitors:
Buffalo Audubon Society
Buffalo Geological Society
Buffalo Ornithological Society
Cheektowaga Historical Association
Cheektowaga Youth Engaged in Service (YES)
Citizens Climate Lobby
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County/Master Gardeners
Cradle Beach
DEC Bureau of Invasive Species & Ecosystem Health
DEC Bureau of Wildlife
DEC Forest Rangers
DEC Great Lakes Program
DEC Lands & Forests
DEC Law Enforcement
DEC Materials Management
DEC Office of Recreation
DEC Region 9 Fisheries
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farm
Erie County Department of Environment & Planning
Erie County Recycling
Erie County Soil & Water Conservation District
Friends of Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge
Friends of Reinstein Woods
Great Falls Council, Boy Scouts of America
Messinger Woods (10-noon)
NYS Department of Public Service
NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation
Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve
SPCA Serving Erie County
Tifft Nature Preserve
US Fish & Wildlife Service
WNY Land Conservancy
WNY Lions Club District 20N Sustainability Club
WNY PRISM
WildWood Western New York
Thank you to our gold sponsor:
M&T Bank
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reinstein Woods, 90 Honorine Dr, Depew, NY 14043, United States
