My Sycamore Canyon
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Ameal Moore Nature Center
Nature Center Update: The Ameal Moore Nature Center is currently closed other than for special programming. If you would like to learn more about these programs, click here Activity search | City of Riverside PRCSD – Online (activecommunities.com) Although the…
Read MoreNovember 2018 Closures
Happy holidays! The Ameal Moore Nature Center will be closed with all Parks, Recreation and Community Services buildings in observance of the 2018 Thanksgiving holiday Thursday, November 22nd and Friday, November 23rd. The Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park will still be…
Read MoreNovember Holiday Closure
The Ameal Moore Nature Center will be closed Friday November 10th and Saturday November 11th in observance of the Veterans Day holiday. The center will also be closed on Thursday November 23rd and Friday November 24th to observe the Thanksgiving holiday. We…
Read MoreSummer Hours Change!
Summer is upon us and that means Junior Naturalist Camps and hour changes! Starting July 17th until August 25th, the Ameal Moore Nature Center will have modified summer hours to accommodate the camps: Summer Hours: Thursdays & Fridays 1pm –…
Read MoreThe Canyon After Dark: Insect Rave!
Have you ever held a native beetle or heard the chirp of a velvet ant? We did last night at our first summer evening event, the Insect Rave! Visitors partied to techno music, adorned themselves with glow sticks, and partied…
Read MoreSecond Saturdays: The Watershed
This Second Saturdays event we focused on a topic that is relevant to you and us at the Ameal Moore Nature Center- even if you didn’t know it existed! We all live somewhere- many of the visitors and staff members…
Read MoreSecond Saturdays: Native Bees
This month the Ameal Moore Nature Center decided to focus on California’s diverse population of 1,000+ native bee species. For our Second Saturdays program we learned all about bee houses, behavior, and appearance. Visitors engaged in identification activities and a…
Read MoreScience Chats: Native Bees
This past Science Chats we had fun with ecologist Michelle Rivers! Visitors swarmed the center as Michelle filled us in about our busy friends, California’s native bees. Many of us are familiar with the European honeybee but there are so…
Read MoreScience Chats: You Collect WHAT?
This past Science Chats we invited UC Riverside Entomologist Ian Wright to speak with us about the importance of long-term natural history collections. Natural history collections can be anything from an organism in a jar to pinned insects. Collections like…
Read MoreSecond Saturdays: Arbor Day
This past Second Saturdays event the Ameal Moore Nature Center was all about trees as we celebrated Arbor Day. We know we were early (Arbor day is Friday April 28th this year) but there’s really never a bad time to…
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