Wildlife West
Nature Park
Edgewood, NM
Phone:
505-281-7655
Toll-Free:
877-981-9453
Info@WildlifeWest.org
Education
Wildlife West Nature Park offers a wide variety of educational programs throughout the year. To learn more about any program, just click on the program name below:
- Bird Handling Classes (spring)
- Junior Zoo Keepers Summer Day Camp (summer)
- Docent and Animal Keeper Training (year-round)
- Educational Wildlife Field Trips!
- Call of the Wild Overnight Gray Wolf Adventure (year-round)
- Call of the Wild Overnight Cougar Adventure (year-round)
- BOOK BOTH AND SAVE: Gray Wolf and Cougar Adventures (year-round)
Bird
Handling Classes - Bird
Handling Class - July 10, 2010 9AM to Noon
These classes offered by Wildlife West Nature Park are intended for anyone who would like to know more about the basic biology, handling, and husbandry of captive birds of prey. Private bird classes for groups of 10 people or more can be arranged on a case-by-case basis.
Graduates of the classes may be invited to join the Wildlife West Nature Park bird team. These selected graduates will receive further training specific to our bird programs.
Those interested should contact Wildlife West Nature Park at 281-WILD (9453). The fee for the course is $20.00 and pre-reservation is required. Members of the New Mexico Wildlife Association are eligible for free entry into the classes.
Junior Zookeepers Summer Day Camp
Two 2011 sessions: June 13 through June 17 and June 27 through July 1.
Our Junior Zookeepers Day Camp is an exciting program that offers children ages 8-12 the opportunity to learn about nature, ecology, and animal enrichment and experience what our animal keepers do on a day to day basis. Two five-day sessions are offered each summer. Kids get a hands-on experience with animals and learn what makes our native wildife - and our Nature Park - tick. For more information and to download our registration form, visit our Junior Zookeepers Camp page.
Docent and Animal Keeper Training
Offered year-round
Wildlife West Nature Park offers regular training sessions for docents and animal keepers. Docent training includes learning how to deal with groups of different types (preschool through seniors, English speaking to deaf visitors), learning (lots) about our animals, their individual stories of why they are nonreleaseable, the different species in a more general sense, how to deal with loud/rowdy groups, customer service, developing a relationship with the animals to enhance tours, developing listening skills, how to deal with conflicts, and other important subjects associated with operation of the Park.
Docent & Animal Keeper Training page.
Educational Wildlife Field Trips
Offered year-round
Wildlife West Nature Park is available for students of all ages. Our field trips are educational, interactive, and in most cases, are guided by trained docents. The park has a covered picnic area for up to 200 children at one time (more by special arrangement). There are soda machines, accessible walkways, restrooms and up to two miles of trails if the entire park is visited. Most classes use about 1 mile of the trails during their visit to see all the rescued native wildlife. The average length of stay is 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
Educational Wildlife Field Trip Page.
Call
of the Wild Overnight Gray Wolf and Cougar Adventures
Offered year-round, $100 per person, occupancy 2 for both Gray Wolf and Cougar Adventures
Wolf Adventure
Support the endangered Mexican Gray Wolf recovery. Plan an overnight adventure with the wolves at Wildlife West Nature Park.
Photographers, Wildlife Enthusiasts, and Wolf Lovers: This is your opportunity to experience and photograph Mexican Gray Wolves up close at Wildlife West Nature Park during an overnight stay in our enclosed, primitive, immersion wolf blind.
Cougar Adventure
Plan an overnight adventure with the cougars at Wildlife West Nature Park.
Photographers, Wildlife Enthusiasts, and Cougar Lovers: This is your opportunity to experience and photograph cougars up close at Wildlife West Nature Park during an overnight stay in our enclosed, primitive, immersion cougar blind.
Book Both and Save!
Combine the Overnight Gray Wolf Adventure and Overnight
Cougar Adventure for $75 per person per night.
