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Summer 2009

Summer 2010

Come visit the Sherwood Island Nature Center! Naturalists, summer interns and volunteer docents welcome visitors to the Center from mid-April to mid-October. Things to see. In aquariums, terrariums, intertidal tanks and a touch tank, lobsters, crabs, fish, starfish, frogs, turtles, snakes, mussels, oysters, clams .. Things to do. Beach seining and arts & crafts for kids, nature walks for all. Things to hear. Weekly lectures at sundown.
	On a knoll above and between the East Beach and the nature trail, the Center overlooks the Long Island Sound and the salt marsh. Park map Nature trail map More about the salt marsh
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At the opening ceremony, DEP Deputy Commissioner Susan Frechette, Acting Commissioner Amey Marrella, Westport First Selectman Gordon Joseloff, DEP Supervisor Mark Rickert, Friends President Sheila O'Neill.

Funding for the Center
The Center was built with funds from CT DEP, grants from public and private sources, and from the fundraising efforts of the Friends of Sherwood Island. About the donors.
The Friends will continue to raise funds for the ongoing needs of the Center.

How it came to be The Nature Center at Sherwood Island State Park is the result of a successful public-private partnership between the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and the Friends of Sherwood Island State Park. After years of fundraising and construction the doors were opened for the first time in spring 2009. The opening ceremony was held in August.
	Funding for educational equipment and displays has been provided by the Long Island Sound Fund administered by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)through the sale of Long Island Sound license plates and contributions.
	The LIS Futures Fund provided support to the CT-DEP State Parks Division to design, develop and install educational exhibits and materials for the new Nature Center. The Futures Fund is a partnership between EPA Long Island Sound Study and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.