Ashley Strough from Wild Wonder Conservation Education checks on Little Pea the Porcupine at Family Wildlife Days at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Center November 2. The event is hosted by The Nature Education Foundation and is in partnership with Riverside Parks and Recreation. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
Several hundred area children of all ages were thrilled and excited to touch, feel and see actual live, wild animals found in the wilderness at the Riverside County Parks and Nature Education Foundation at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve’s Family Wildlife Day Saturday, Nov. 2.Parents along with their children enjoyed the day as the live animals were displayed and information brought to the Plateau’s Visitor Center and pavilion area on Clinton Keith Road in Murrieta.Children were able to see a pretty faced but prickly porcupine, touch a friendly boa constrictor, feel the coat of a north American wolf skin among the many other live attractions at the event, designed to peak children’s curiosity and respect for the animals and nature around them provided by the NEF and
