Tiger Creek Preserve Campus of the Conservation Center for Innovation

Field station name: Tiger Creek Preserve Campus of the Conservation Center for Innovation

URL: https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places-we-protect/tiger-creek-preserve/

Year founded: 1971

Mission statement: The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to protect the lands and waters upon which all life depends, as described in our Shared Conservation Agenda. Within that, the Conservation Center for Innovation works to:
1. Provide inclusive and engaging learning environments to foster and expand education, professional resource management training, and inspire the next generation of conservationist.
2. Establish outreach programs that include and inform the public on important conservation topics that are significant to people and nature’s relationship. (or significantly impacted by the relationship between people and nature?)
3. Develop and expand collaborations with academia, agencies, community leaders, and NGOs to investigate research questions and strategies utilizing TNC lands that benefit people and nature
4. Advance, communicate and share innovative and effective conservation stewardship practices through partnerships and demonstration that can be deployed across the southeast for improved management of our natural resources.
And within the CCI, Tiger Creek Preserve seeks:
• To manage the preserves’ natural resources through good stewardship in order to enhance its conservation value and to provide research, outreach, and educational opportunities to the Lake Wales Ridge and south-central Florida community (Polk, Osceola, Highlands, Hardee, Desoto, Okeechobee, Charlotte, Glades counties).
• To create an environment for science by facilitating research by academia, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector on biotic and abiotic processes in ecology and conservation that showcase the TCP plant communities.
• To connect people and nature and foster our future conservationists by serving as a teaching and training platform for students of all ages in the Lake Wales Ridge and south-central Florida communities to gain hands-on experience in research processes, Florida’s natural history, resource management, and conservation.

Annual visitors: 1000

Land: 4877 acres (1974 hectares)

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Outreach Goals

[✓ = applies to this field station, ✗ = does not apply to this field station]

    ✓ Build community

    ✓ Disseminate place-based knowledge and/or skills

    ✓ Encourage conservation or environmental stewardship

    ✗ Inspire curiosity

    ✗ Make field station resources available to the public

    ✗ Promote STEM careers

    ✗ Raise awareness of the field station's work

    ✗ Raise money

    ✓ Reach a particular audience

    ✗ Teach about the environment generally

    ✗ Teach researchers how to communicate with the public

Outreach Programs