Porcupines & Fireweed

Porcupines & Fireweed

Jul 3, 2024

AWCC’s resident North American Porcupines, Twix, Baby Ruth, and Heath, enjoying a delicious fireweed snack. Porcupines are herbivores, and feed on the newly emerging leaves of aspen, birch, willow, and cottonwood in the spring. Fireweed, willow, roots, berries,...
Summer Hummingbird Days 2024

Summer Hummingbird Days 2024

Jan 4, 2024

Join us at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center for Rufous Hummingbird banding demonstrations and presentations with biologists from US. Fish & Wildlife and AWCC’s naturalists. Highlights include: Banding demos, naturalist talks, current impacts to...
Summer Hummingbird Days 2024

Summer Hummingbird Days

Jan 27, 2023

Join us at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center for Rufous Hummingbird banding demonstrations and presentations with biologists from US. Fish & Wildlife and AWCC’s naturalists. Summer Hummingbird Days Program Schedule 9:00am – 2:00pm Banding demos,...
Thank You Girdwood PTA for a Fun Event!

Thank You Girdwood PTA for a Fun Event!

Oct 29, 2022

AWCC would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to the Girdwood PTA for hosting the 2nd Annual Trunk or Treat event! It was a fun-filled evening of tricks, treats, games, music, and good times. Lily enjoying the Boneyard AWCC Staff: Alex, Howie, Lily & Nicole Spooky...

Discover the WILD of Alaska and come meet the locals! Book a Walk on the Wild Side Experience and enjoy a tour where your personal guide walks you through the Center, offering history and stories of resident wildlife – and you’ll get to feed an animal!

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