Thanks in part to a $50,000 gift, a new educational forest exhibit will be constructed as early as this summer at the David Traylor Zoo in Emporia.
The William and Aloha Preston Trust is donating $50,000 for the Preston Forest Adventure exhibit. The total cost of the project is estimated at $87,000 with the rest of the money coming from the city’s zoo improvement account.
The proposed exhibit will house a barn owl, great horned owl and raccoon or opossum. It will also include interactive exhibits aimed at educating visitors.
“It will be an interactive exhibit for children and adults of all ages,” said Lisa Keith, zoo director. “There will be graphics that they can test their knowledge of forest animals. There can push a button and hear what forest animals sound like or find out what they eat.”
Keith said there also will be an adventure playground area where children can crawl through a log, play on a fake spider web or sit on a turtle replica to have their picture taken.
Pick up the Thursday Emporia Gazette for the full story.
thiefs_necktie (anonymous) says...
Many Thanks to the Preston Fund! What a neat addition!
January 26, 2011 at 2:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
karma (anonymous) says...
Now this is the kind of improvements that Emporia needs!
January 26, 2011 at 3:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
bloomsbury (SC DIXON) says...
Thank you...this sounds great.
January 26, 2011 at 4 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
lovemylittletown (anonymous) says...
Neat!!!! Congrats to the Zoo!
January 26, 2011 at 4:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
sunshine (anonymous) says...
Very cool! Love the zoo and glad to see things like this going on there :)
January 26, 2011 at 5:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Buffalo_Breath (anonymous) says...
Very nice. Kids love to learn by "doing", not just by looking. Sounds like this will serve that end ... and be 'way cool' for us old folks, too.
January 26, 2011 at 7:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
JFish (anonymous) says...
This will be simply wonderful. We will enjoy taking our grandchildren there. Another reason to come visit Emporia!
January 26, 2011 at 9:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
gooseylucy (anonymous) says...
Great Idea!! No maybe we won't have to worry so much about them thar rascally 'possums holdin' our city folks hostage in their homes. LOL
January 27, 2011 at 9:15 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )