Earth Day at Spring Mill

EARTH DAY

Celebrate this Earth Day in the great outdoors! Spring Mill State Park is offering a wide variety of activities from 10 am to 4 pm:

10am-12pm:  Donaldson Cave Nature Preserve –

Meet Wyatt Williams, ecologist from Division of Nature Preserves, in front of Spring Mill Inn to walk through a high-quality dry-mesic upland forest with unique plants that thrive in thin, rocky soils. Pass through a small, unique glade with a wonderful diversity of plants more associated with prairies than the forest that surrounds it. The stroll will continue through Donaldson Hollow, a floodplain valley that recently had acres of invasive Vinca minor removed.  Rugged, 1 mile hike. 2 hours

10am-1pm:  Make and take a bird feeder (!peanut butter used!)

10am-1pm:  Make and take home your own seed starter pot

10am-3pm:  Borrow a fishing pole with free bait.  (Must have fishing license if 18 years or older)

11am:  Nature Hike – Naturalist Morgan will let you borrow a magnifying glass on this guided hike, so you can get close and personal with some of the wonders of nature.  Lakeview Activity Center back patio. 30 minutes.

12:30pm:  Wildflower and Pollinator Project

1pm:  Invasive Plant Hike

1:30pm:  Herbie the Hellbender – Make slime.

2pm:  Hidden Cave Hike

3pm:  Recycling 101 Activity.  Attenders get a free stainless steel straw.

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