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Interpretive Services
The Association provides interpretive
services for LBL’s Woodland Nature Station, Golden Pond Planetarium, and
The Homeplace
facilities. A total of seventeen full-time employees provide quality
environmental and cultural history education programs to more than 150,000
visitors and school children each year. The staff research their
subject matter to improve the presentations and programs which they
provide to the visitors each year. Each season there are different
programs to provide the visitor a new view and understanding of nature and
the history of the area.
Visit our Frequently Asked Questions
page to learn more about what we do and the answers
to many of your most frequently asked questions.
Educational
opportunities on LBL and on other area public lands are also promoted
through a unique partnership called PEPL, Partners for
Education on Public Lands. PEPL currently promotes educational
opportunities on public lands through a brochure, Connected by the
Rivers: Educational Opportunities on Your Public Lands and teacher and
home educator’s workshop. For information, about PEPL and
the next PEPL educator’s workshop
click here.
We work to find ways for children to visit
the excellent educational facilities at LBL including the Woodlands Nature
Station, the Golden Pond Planetarium, and the Homeplace. For
information about the Field Trip Grant Program
click here.
Our interpretive staff provides direct customer services throughout the
property on behalf of the Forest Service on a daily basis.
Our 6 Woodland Nature Station Interpreters provided services to over 35,000 visitors
during the year.
The Woodland Nature Station provides a close encounter
with the natural world with an in-depth look at native plants and wildlife
including eagle, wolves, coyote, deer, owls, and more
Visit
our Woodlands Nature Station Site
Read our
2007 Nature Journal
Read our 2006 Nature Journal
Read our 2005 Nature Journal
Visit our Resource Center for
Environmental Education
View eagle
viewing areas and learn about this majestic bird in the comfort of the
C Q Princess a 100-foot yacht with seating capacity of 120 persons.
You can also view these wonderful residents
of LBL from the
comfort of a
guided van.
Contact the FS Customer Service at (270)
924-2020 to reserve your seat TODAY.
The 7 Homeplace Interpreters provided cultural and historic instruction to
over 45,000 visitors during the year.
The
Homeplace re-creates life on a mid-19th century southern farm.
Authentically furnished houses, historic barns, and demonstrations of
daily chores bring the site to life.
 
Visit our
Homeplace Site
Read our 2006 Homeplace Journal
Read our 2005 Homeplace Journal
The upgrade of the Planetarium has provided
a greatly enhanced opportunity for visitors. The Forest
Service invested $200,000.00 in new equipment for the Planetarium. LBLA
staff oversaw the project. The improvements have made the Planetarium a
state-of-the-art facility that is second to none. Recently there has been
a great deal of interest and publicity regarding this enhanced operation.
There were over 20,000 who were provided with a view of the heavens through the
eyes of our 3 Planetarium Interpreters. The Golden Pond Planetarium
provides digital views of a simulated night sky with images and
descriptions from the Cassini spacecraft’s contemporary approach to
Saturn.
Visit
our Golden Pond Planetarium Site
Read our Planetarium Journal
Visit our Resource Center for Educators about the skies
Visit our gallery of flowering plants of the
Prairie
The Elk and Bison Prairie provides the
visitor with a magnificent gallery of beautiful flowers.
Visit the flowers and all of the wildlife
which live there. Ask one of our Bugle Corps members, who drive the
Prairie to assist the visitor, if you have questions about what you see.
Visit the EBP gallery live at LBL year round
Our Nature Station and Homeplace staff were afforded the opportunity to
become trained by professional staff of the National Association for
Interpretation and thus qualify for the designation as a Certified
Heritage Interpreter.
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