Free Special Event!
Wildlife 101
Sunday, August 14th
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Tennant Lake Interpertive Center, Ferndale
All Ages!
Birds, bones and bugs, oh my! Come explore with us and unlock secrets of wildlife watching. Experience hands-on discovery of the wild animals who inhabit Tennant Lake. Bird the boardwalk loop with Paul Woodcock from the Audubon Society, check out wild animal skulls and pelts with Richard Kessler of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Dept, and go on an aquatic invertebrate safari with Holly, Naturalist for Wild Whatcom Walks.
Note: dogs are not allowed on the Tennant Lake boardwalk. They scare the beavers!
This program is in cooperation with the Friends of Tennant Lake & Hovander Park and is offered free to the public. No registration required. Program runs rain or shine.
Whatcom County Parks website.
Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife website.
Downloadable list of the Birds of Tennant Lake.
Directions: The Tennant Lake Interpretive Center is in Ferndale, adjacent to Hovander Homestead Park. Take Ferndale Exit 262 off I-5. Go west on Main Street ½ mile, turn left onto Hovander Road at railroad underpass then right on Nielsen Ave (if you go over the Nooksack River on the bridge, you’ve gone too far). Follow signs to Tennant Lake Interpretive Center (end of Nielsen Ave.).
