Vision
The E. L. Johnson Nature Center will be the premier publicly-owned nature
preserve in Oakland County, teaching its visitors and students that the
decisions one makes today affect tomorrow’s ecological systems and that
we must preserve and protect the flora, fauna and water quality of the
area.
The E. L. Johnson Nature Center will be the premier publicly-owned nature
preserve in Oakland County, teaching its visitors and students that the
decisions one makes today affect tomorrow’s ecological systems and that
we must preserve and protect the flora, fauna and water quality of the
area.
E. L. Johnson Nature Center
3325 Franklin Road
Bloomfield Township, MI
48302
Manager: Dan Badgley
Phone: 248.341.6487
Friends: 248.335.7637
3325 Franklin Road
Bloomfield Township, MI
48302
Manager: Dan Badgley
Phone: 248.341.6487
Friends: 248.335.7637
Friends of the E. L. Johnson Nature Center
| About Us |
| Board of Directors 2007-2008 |
Barbara Moorhouse,
President
Liz Fellows, Secretary
Mary Koerner, Treasurer
Rhonda Angelo, Director
Anne Bouch, Director
Andrea DeFrain, Director
Sue Freudigman, Director
Amy Kiesel, Director
Ken Macon, Director
Chuck Soberman, Director
Chuck Travis, Director
Karen Weiss, Director
David Lubin, Ex-officio
Dan Badgley, Ex-officio
Maureen Zack, Ex-officio
President
Liz Fellows, Secretary
Mary Koerner, Treasurer
Rhonda Angelo, Director
Anne Bouch, Director
Andrea DeFrain, Director
Sue Freudigman, Director
Amy Kiesel, Director
Ken Macon, Director
Chuck Soberman, Director
Chuck Travis, Director
Karen Weiss, Director
David Lubin, Ex-officio
Dan Badgley, Ex-officio
Maureen Zack, Ex-officio
Mission
The Friends of the Johnson Nature Center supports the Center by providing
The Friends of the Johnson Nature Center supports the Center by providing
- learning opportunities through exhibits and programs for visitors to
the Nature Center and for the members of the Friends - volunteers to help maintain the grounds of the Nature Center and to
serve as docents in the Visitors Center - funds for exhibits and other needs of the Nature Center
History
The idea of a Friends group to support the E. L. Johnson Nature Center
bloomed when the Bloomfield Hills School Board was decided to build a
badly needed new Visitors' Center in 2005. The group was incorporated
that fall and in early 2006 started operating. In our first year, 2006-07,
we enrolled eighty-nine members and received contributions from
eighty-five individuals and groups. We raised more than $11,000 from dues
and contributions. In October, 2006 we were honored when the PTO
Council chose the Friends and the Nature Center as their focus on Make a
Difference Day--an effort that raised nearly $2,400 plus many students
contributed their time that day to do a variety of tasks around the Nature
Center, like clearing brush, planting a butterfly garden and cleaning and
straightening up the Log Cabin and its storage shed. The Friends hosted
two events for its members: a moonlit walk through fresh snow, listening
for owls and a St. Patrick's Day Pancake Supper. We ended the year with
our first Annual Meeting. In September 2007 we hosted an extremely
popular Family Fun Day for the public. There were many activities to
choose from: fishing & canoeing at the pond, live animal demonstrations, a
scavenger hunt, and t-shirt printing.
The idea of a Friends group to support the E. L. Johnson Nature Center
bloomed when the Bloomfield Hills School Board was decided to build a
badly needed new Visitors' Center in 2005. The group was incorporated
that fall and in early 2006 started operating. In our first year, 2006-07,
we enrolled eighty-nine members and received contributions from
eighty-five individuals and groups. We raised more than $11,000 from dues
and contributions. In October, 2006 we were honored when the PTO
Council chose the Friends and the Nature Center as their focus on Make a
Difference Day--an effort that raised nearly $2,400 plus many students
contributed their time that day to do a variety of tasks around the Nature
Center, like clearing brush, planting a butterfly garden and cleaning and
straightening up the Log Cabin and its storage shed. The Friends hosted
two events for its members: a moonlit walk through fresh snow, listening
for owls and a St. Patrick's Day Pancake Supper. We ended the year with
our first Annual Meeting. In September 2007 we hosted an extremely
popular Family Fun Day for the public. There were many activities to
choose from: fishing & canoeing at the pond, live animal demonstrations, a
scavenger hunt, and t-shirt printing.
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| "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. " Aristotle |