I hope all the skunks, otters and wolves are warm today. They have quite an adoring public waiting to see them when it warms up a bit.
Otters are a popular exhibit at the WNC Nature Center.
The WNC Nature Center, aka Asheville’s own little natural habitat zoo, again reached record-breaking attendance in 2013. According to the Friends of the WNC Nature Center , the Nature Center off Gashes Creek Road in East Asheville finished out the year with 107,949 visitors.
2013 by the numbers:
• Eight out of 12 months in 2013 had the highest attendance numbers in five years.
• July 2013 was the second-highest single month for attendance in five years (the first-highest was July 2009)
• In 2013, the Center had 29 days with 600 or more guests, up from 15 such days in 2012 and 7 in 2010.
• Since 2010, the Center has experienced a 20 percent increase in guest attendance. In 2013, 20,342 more people visited the Center than in 2010.
Last year saw the completion of several projects and developments at the Nature Center, including a new Red Wolf boardwalk
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