Western North Carolina Nature Center

This cenater serves to educate the public to the natural history and ecology of the Southern Appalachians. With a "hands on" Nature Lab and Educational Farm with petting area, children are invited to touch a corn snake, hold a turtle, or feel angora, pre-sheared. All of the animals have been injured or are imprinted on people and cannot be returned to the wild. The new habitats are examples of future care, gone are the days of cages and bars. The Center has gradually become a sanctuary for the animals who had been "pets" (like the cougars, bobcats and raccoons) or raised from a program to save a species for reintroduction (such as the red wolves).