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Allan Brooks Nature Centre
250 Allan Brooks Way
P.O. Box 20038
Vernon, BC V1T 9L4
Phone: (250) 260-4227
Email: [email protected]
Hours of Operation
ABNC is OPEN for the 2022 season! Visit us Tuesday – Saturday from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.
Allan Brooks Nature Centre respectfully acknowledges that we are situated on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Syilx/Okanagan people.
Okanagan Nature Nut: What good are mosquitos?
Ugh!! Mosquitoes! Hordes of them, buzzing in your ear and biting incessantly are a maddening nuisance. Not to mention the devastating health impacts caused by malaria, Zika and West Nile […]
Part 2 on the ‘fascinating night guardians’
The Okanagan’s low to mid elevation ecosystems have the greatest variety and population of bats in all of Canada because of its warm climate and diversity of terrain. Our warm […]
Okanagan Nature Nut Narrows in on Bats
It’s bat season in B.C. They’ve migrated back to B.C. or left their hibernaculas to forage for insects. Most females have babies now. There are more than 1,400 known bat […]