Bluff Lake Nature Center

Welcome

Bluff Lake Nature Center is a nonprofit agency that owns and manages a unique urban wildlife refuge and outdoor classroom in northeast Denver. The refuge is home to an abundance of animals and native plants, which thrive in a variety of habitats.

Each year, nearly 5,000 area elementary students visit Bluff Lake as part of one of our formal education programs. Thousands of additional visitors come to Bluff Lake to enjoy a few moments of solace and connection to nature.

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Bluff Lake is a Denver Post Charities Season to Share beneficiary. To make a donation, call 800-518-3972 or visit www.seasontoshare.com.

Bluff News

MLK Day of Service Was a Success:
Bluff Lake thanks all the volunteers and Americorps service members who helped clean up trash from the municipal stormwater outfall and along the fenceline on Martin Luther King Jr day.

Bluff Lake in the Denver Post: Bluff Lake makes headlines in the newspaper. Follow the links to read the stories.

Blog: Bluff Lake Nature Center Connects Students to Nature

Article: Denver-area kids land appreciation of nature and outdoors at old airport buffer zone

A Proven Combination: Field Trips & Learning!
BLNC's Education Program brings elementary students into nature for hands-on learning and the kids show consistent, significant improvements on environmental literacy assessments scores! During the fall of 2011:

433 1st-2nd graders attended our “Healthy Habitats” program. Students showed a 42% average improvement between pre-visit and post-visit assessment scores.
152 2nd-4th graders attended our “Life Cycles” program. Students showed a 26% average improvement between pre-visit and post-visit assessment scores.
594 4th-5th graders attended our “Wetland Wonders” program. Students showed a 26% average improvement between pre-visit and post-visit assessment scores.

The success of our program is reliant upon support from the community. Your donations to BLNC are critical and our volunteers are too. The scores above were witnessed by, eleven Education Volunteers who put in a combined total of 389 hours.

Bluff News Archive

Calendar

>>Volunteer Clean-Up:
Please join us on Saturday February 4th, 9:00-12:00. We will be working along the banks of Sand Creek to remove trash that accumulated from the flash flood last summer. Come early for bird watching at 8:00, then stay and help restore the riparian habitat.

If the weather is bad the clean-up event may be cancelled, please check the website for updates.

>>Volunteer Oppurtunities:
Help Bluff Lake reach our goals. Please contact Chris Story by email or by phone at 303-945-6717 for more information.

>>Invitation to Come Play Tai Chi!
Gather in the Rainbow to Radiate the Colors
Sunday Morning Tai Chi and Chi Gong.
Are you looking for a natural space to practice your tai chi and chi gong?
No Charge. No instructors. No crowds.
Whether you practice for meditative, medical or martial arts purpose, feel free to roam Bluff Lake’s wildlife refuge trails.

Join us on Sundays from 7:30 am -9:00 am. Please email Mary Jo Hanson for more information.

>>GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Bluff Lake Nature Center recently received a $10,000 grant from the Denver Post Charities, a fund of McCormick Foundation, for its educational programming serving nearly 5,000 Denver-area kids. Thank you, Denver Post Charities and McCormick Foundation!

>>BIRD WALKS 2012
Break out your binoculars and join Bluff Lake Volunteer Naturalists as they guide you through the trails and help you add to your life list.

2010 Annual Report

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