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Celebrate our planet!
Learn about our natural world - animals, plants, streams.
Investigate what you can do to help keep our planet healthy.
Learn environmentally sound practices from our exhibitors.
Grow a plant - plant a seed to take home
Meet some live critters.
Make fun & usable crafts from recycled materials.
Meet Captain Conservation.
Win a doorprize. |
Highlights of the Celebration Include: |
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Pond Critters.
Come to the boardwalk on Chicopee Lake and see what kind of creatures live in the pond. Our trained naturalists will be using nets to scoop up samples from the pond for you to investigate some of the creatures that make the pond their home. |
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Geocache.
Do you like scavenger hunts? You'll enjoy learning about geocaching from the Georgia Geocachers. It's a great family activity that gets the kids outside, moving, and having fun all at the same time. Use a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit to search for cache boxes hidden in the woods. The cache contains rewards or goodies for the finder who in turn leaves a surprise for the next finder. This adventure game provides an opportunity to learn about navigation, habitats, geography, and good stewardship for being in the woods. The opportunities for caches are boundless with sites all over the world and internet access for locating them locally and abroad. |
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Bird watch.
We'll have binoculars and our bird scope set up at the lake to give you a close-up view of all the birds that live there or are visiting us on their migration journey. It's a great chance to see waterfowl like ducks and herons that live at the lake in addition to hawks and other birds of prey flying overhead. This time of year nesters and songbirds abound creating a chance to see warblers, flycatchers and tanagers among others. |
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Hike to suspension bridge.
We'll be taking a group of adventurous hikers on a mile hike to the suspension bridge. Along the way you'll have an opportunity to see the many signs of spring appearing in the woods including wildflowers, songbirds and trees sporting their new leaves. |
Gopher Boy
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Elachee critters.
We'll have a couple of our resident Elachee critters for you to meet up close - will it be a gopher tortoise, one of our unusually colored corn snakes or our highly popular euromastx lizards? You'll have to be surprised with the choice of our animal curator according to which critters are ready to meet the public that day. |
Exhibitors and Information Booths:
Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council (GA-EPPC) - learn how to control those pesky plants invading your yard
Georgia Adopt-A-Stream (GA-AAS) - help keep the streams in your neighborhood healthy
Georgia Geocachers - get involved in this adventure sport
Keep Georgia Beautiful - ways to clean up our county and state
Hall County Resource Recovery - learn to recycle |
Saturday, April 21st, 10 am -1 pm at Chicopee Lake
Admission: Adults: $3, Children 2-12: $2, Elachee Members and under 2: FREE.
Proceeds will fund Elachee's Forest Restoration Project which will create healthy, native forests where exotic, invasive plants have been removed. Proceeds from the Animal Giving Tree will help fund the feeding and care of our resident Elachee animals.
Whether you like plants, animals or just enjoy being outside, Earth Day at Elachee has something fun and informative to offer for everyone! Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase and there will be drawings for doorprises. Price of admisssion includes same day admission to Elachee's main museum center complex off Atlanta Highway.
Sponsored by Earth Share of Georgia. |
