About Us
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Our 2,100 sq. ft facility at Luhr Beach is on the shore of Puget Sound on
the west side of Nisqually Delta at the mouth of McAllister Creek. We
receive use of our building through a cooperative agreement with the
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, which also maintains a boat
launch and fishing pier here at Luhr Beach. We are organized as a nonprofit corporation, with 501(c)(3) status. We
are governed by a board of directors with members drawn from the local
business community, higher education institutions, and state resource
management agencies. |
The Nisqually Reach Nature Center has been offering estuarine environmental
education at Luhr Beach since 1982. Through the years our emphasis has
changed from general public outreach to our current focus on providing
supplemental classroom, laboratory, and field trip opportunities for schools
in the Thurston and Pierce counties area and beyond. In a typical year,
upwards of 2,000 school kids, mostly in grades 5 through 12, visit the
Nature Center with their teachers and parents. We also support and
sponsor estuarine research opportunities for South Puget Sound college students.