The Nature Education Foundation and RivCo Parks Junior Ranger program to provide children, ages 5 to 14, to take part in learning about the natural world around them and how to preserve it is introduced at the Family Wildlife Day on the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve Saturday, Nov. 4. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
The Nature Education Foundation Family Wildlife Day on Saturday, Nov. 4, the first in five years, brought more than 600 adults and children to the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve for a day of learning and entertainment.
At the Reserve’s Visitor Center at 39400 Clinton Keith Road in Murrieta, its oak tree shrouded picnic area and trails were teeming with families with their children from toddlers to teens oohing and awing at the many interactive nature education booths, some with live animals and birds and others with games and participant challenges, all in an effort to learn about how to preserve and protect the plants and animals in the nature around them.
The Nature Education Foundation presented the event with the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District who man
