Celebrate Earth Day on Saturday April 19, 2025., at this FREE, special event with various activities scheduled throughout the day! Activities will promote awareness of environmental protection and earth conservation. Come on your own or bring the whole family to celebrate one of the most important milestones in conservation history with your local nature center! Enjoy live animal encounters, eco-friendly crafts, guided nature walks, the PBSO Mounted Unit, a rehabilitated animal release, raffles to benefit the Friends of Okeeheelee Nature Center, food trucks, environmental exhibitors and vendors and much more! Come and explore all the nature center has to offer since its opening in 1992. The Friends of Okeeheelee Nature Center sponsors this year’s Earth Day event.