This year for the first time the Seneca Rocks Discovery Center and the USDA Forest Service hosted 4th graders from Pendleton County for a day full outdoor recreation, cultural heritage, and fun! 56 students from the surrounding area visited stations set up on the Discovery Center grounds focusing on cultural heritage of the area and outdoor recreation activities in the hope to encourage more exploration of the public lands around them.
Musings on the Rocks: Two Months at Seneca
I’m currently serving a split position between the Seneca Rocks Discovery Center in the Cheat-Potomac ranger district, and the Greenbrier ranger district with AFNHA. West Virginia, like Virginia, has a strong sense of old-world roots and distinct cultural and geographical characteristics. It’s not a generic place. You have to be affected by her, one way or another.
Discovery happens at Seneca Rocks!
My time so far serving as an AFNHA AmeriCorps with the USDA Forest Service has provided me with many more opportunities than I could have expected. My service focuses on interpretation at the Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, a place where visitors flock from miles and miles through windy country roads to learn more about what makes this area so unique…