Image Gallery

: Riverside local and regular park visitor Lamont Lewis holds a snake skeleton brought in from the park

: Riverside Metropolitan Museum Director, Sarah, and a list of the museum’s partners who helped make this event and center possible

: Ribbon cutting ceremony

: Opening ceremonies

: Opening ceremonies presentation with Mrs. Henrietta Moore and Mayor Rusty Bailey.

: Nature center wall panels go up

: Opening day with President of the Riverside Museum Associates (RMA) Jim Ferguson and Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey

: Anonymous visitor submitted image of an adult male Granite spiny lizard

: Anonymous visitor submitted image

: Anonymous visitor submitted image

: Anonymous visitor submitted image

: Anonymous visitor submitted image

: A hawk with prey taken by Cary “Adronicus” Mejia (see next image for close up of hawk)

: Hawk with prey (close up) taken by visitor Cary “Adronicus” Mejia

: Paw print plaster casts taken by Dave and Kathy Lehman in their back yard.

: A group of cyclists were nice enough to pose for a picture after a morning ride.

: Not tall enough? No problem! We’ll get you a chair.

: Families are always welcome at the nature center!

: Visitors enjoying the activities in the nature center.

: Visitors enjoying fossil painting

: Visitors painting plaster fossils

: Visitor getting a closer look at insect wings

: Examining a mountain lion skull

: Oct 18 2014 C.C.C. Volunteer Day: Assemblyman Jose Medina addresses volunteers and C.C.C. workers at the start of the event

: Volunteers and C.C.C. workers

: Assemblyman Medina and C.C.C. workers

: Two C.C.C. workers waiting for the digging to begin

: C.C.C. Volunteer Day participants discover what an owl had for dinner

: C.C.C. workers pose between informational talks

: C.C.C. Volunteer Day planting

: Nature center staff and the younger C.C.C. Volunteer Day participants explore the education collection

: Participants of all ages were able to help plant on the C.C.C. Volunteer Day

: Younger participants in the C.C.C. Volunteer Day discover a mountain lion’s skull

: C.C.C. workers pose during planting

: C.C.C. workers visited in the center at the end of the day

: Every 1st and 3rd Saturdays the center leads a free guided hike!

: Smokey the Bear, Mayor Rusty Bailey, Danny (UCR Science Ambassador), Kim Wilcox, and Alexander Friend plant a tree

: Parks employees and Smokey the Bear (left to right) Alisa Sramala (PRCSD), Jacab Schwerdt (PCRSD Maintenance Supervisor), Darren Ramsey (PRCSD Landscape Inspector), and George Monsisvais (PCRSD CSD)

: Eagle Scout, Tyler, drops off new sensory tables he made for the center

: Arlanza Elementary School’s Garden Club came out for a visit. They took a short hike and learned about the plants that the canyon has.

: The SISTERS group outside of the nature center

: Visitors take a guided hike on a 1st or 3rd Saturday

: Image taken by Jill Coumoutso before evening BioBlitz activities

: Image of a Red Diamond Rattlesnake taken by visitor Walter Roth. The center would like to remind all visitors to not get close to snakes but to stay a respectful distance from all wildlife in the park.

: Our park has roadrunners! Photo taken by Walter Roth.

: The flowers are in bloom from the rain! Photo taken by Walter Roth.

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