WNC Nature Center (Native Waters Exhibit)

Drop into the national traveling exhibit, "Native Waters", August through October, 2008

Drop into "Native Waters", a national traveling exhibit focused on Native American perceptions of water and its conservation. This exhibit juxtaposes themes of water cycle science with Native American regard for water.  It provides a powerful and multidimensional perspective of water as something spiritually significant as well as precious in a very practical sense. Visitors will do things such as pump "rain" over a model landscape with urban and rural sections and see first hand the relative absorption capacities of each type of landscape.  Children will race marbles through a landscape trying to avoid nonpoint source pollution on their way to the river.  Certain panels have audio components with Native American elders speaking of their regard for water and its meaning. The exhibit will be hosted until the end of October and is made possible by a generous grant from the Pigeon River Fund of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.
 
For more information on the "Native Waters" exhibit, please contact Dan Clere, Nature Center Education Specialist, at (828) 298-5600 ext. 320.