2022 Mountain Science Expo Presents: Explore Your Arboretum!

April 30 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

This year the Mountain Science Expo returns to the Arboretum in person! 

Join us for a day celebrating the wonders of the natural world! Explore Your Arboretum with nature walks, science exhibits and more. Learn about lichen, forest critters and tree identification with the Youth Education team and our science partners from around our community. Then take part as a community scientist in the City Nature Challenge! 

The 2022 Mountain Science Expo will feature walks led by graduates of the Arboretum’s Blue Ridge Naturalist and Blue Ridge EcoGardener certificate programs and Arboretum education staff and science presentations at Willow Pond. In addition, kids crafts, live animal demonstrations and more will acquaint you with the plants and animals that call the Arboretum home.

All activities are free of charge, regular parking fees apply. No preregistration is required.

Enjoy outdoor exhibits about:

• Lichen identification and monitoring by the NC Division of Air Quality
• Tree identification by FIND Outdoors
• Common backyard critters and how to make your own track guide by Friends of WNC Nature Center
• Macroinverebrates and creek critters by the Environmental Quality Institute
• And craft making from the US Forest Service

Learn how to participate in the City Nature Challenge, a four-day event that invites you to help observe and upload photo observations of plants and animals to aid scientists to learn more about our region and our world’s biodiversity using iNaturalist, an online network of naturalists and nature enthusiasts