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Welcome! This site is provided by the Friends of Oxley Nature Center to share information about the Center, which is operated by the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
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Furlough Closing: Mon 2/15 The Oxley gates are open daily from 8:00- 5:00. The Interpretive Building is open from 10:00-4:30 Mon-Sat & Noon-4:30 Sun. You may park outside the gate and walk the trails from 7:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. or on holidays. Mohawk Park charges a $2 fee per car on weekends April through October for non-members. The Redbud Valley gates are open Wed-Sun from 8:00-5:00, and
the Visitor's Center is open from 11:00-3:00. |
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Volunteer Naturalist Training
Join our team of dedicated volunteers
Become a Volunteer Naturalist and share your love of nature with others! Spring will soon be in the air! We Need YOU! What better time to try something new? The trees will be bursting with buds. Forest violets will be peeking up above the leaf litter. Birds and frogs will be singing their courtship songs. If you enjoy being outdoors sharing nature with others, join us for one of our training programs. Our weekday 4-week session begins March 2 and ends March 26. Training sessions are two days a week from 9:00 a.m.-12 noon. If evening training is more convenient for you, you may attend training three nights; Friday, Sunday and Monday, March 26, 28,and 29th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 27 from 1-3 p.m. Training is fun, and will familiarize you with our trail system and its varied natural communities: forests, wetlands, and prairies. We emphasize interpretation methods and leadership skills. You will explore forests where wild onions demand to be tasted and walk through tall prairie grasses where sculpted mud crayfish chimneys bespeak a mysterious world of enchantment for child and adult alike. Following training, you will join other naturalists, each guiding a small group of visitors on weekday, evening or weekend tours. If you are 18 or older, please call us for more information. No previous experience is necessary. Join our team now! |
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The Tulsa Ornament for 2009 honors Oxley Nature Center
For 2009, the ornament honors Oxley Nature Center. The backpiece shows the beautiful Oxley-Yetter Interpretive building, and the frontpiece shows a family enjoying the natural sights and sounds on the prairie trail in front of the pond and the Interpretive building. The ornament is 2-1/4" x 2-1/4" with front piece in 1/4" relief from body. Each year's ornament is a limited, dated edition, in a red gift box with informational insert. Each year 50% of the artists profits are donated to charity, which this year will be the Friends of Oxley. The ornaments can be ordered on-line at www.tulsaornament.com or they may also be purchased at the Oxley Nature Store. |
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There are no open dates on the school calendar for the
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The building renovations, begun in January 2008, are now complete, resulting in a practically brand new facility with many upgrades and changes. The new new exhibits funded the the Friends of Oxley have been installed. Stop by soon to see the new Oxley Nature Center!
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Tulsa Audubon's TogetherGreen Volunteer Day at Oxley On Jan. 31 we had 105 people come out to Oxley to perform several habitat projects as part of Tulsa Audubon TogetherGreen program. We had four groups working. Science students from Jenks High School worked on the invasive wisteria growing in the woods west of the Oxley Interpretive Building. A group from AmeriCorps headed to the North Woods to dig up invasive Liriope, or Monkey Grass. And two Girl Scout troops worked on installing 25 Bluebird houses. Below is a short video of the days activities. Visit Tulsa Audubon's web site for more pictures from the day, and information on the TogetherGreen program.
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Damselflies &
Dragonflies of
Oxley And now, with the cooperation of the web site OdonataCentral, photos of all the species have been added to the checklist, along with links to species accounts. |
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First known record of a Striped Saddlebags, Tramea
calverti, in Oklahoma spotted at Oxley! Checklist of Damselflies & Dragonflies of Oxley Nature Center, compiled by Bill Carrell |
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Damselflies &
Dragonflies of
Oxley Newsletter Now Available
in PDF Format The History of Redbud
Valley
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Attention Teachers!
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On-Line Membership Form Now Available! If you would like to join the Friends of Oxley, or renew your membership, you can now do it on-line using your credit or debit card. |
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Volunteering Volunteers are a vital part of our Nature Center. Our volunteer page describes the many way you can contribute. If you know you're ready to help, you can go right to the volunteer application. Thank You! |
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What Is An Easy Way To Support The Friends of Oxley? By shopping at Amazon!
If you enter Amazon
through the links on our site, then The Friends of Oxley will
receive a portion of your purchase. You still receive the normal excellent
Amazon
prices, and this applies to any product offered
through
Amazon,
not just bird and nature books! So consider doing all your Amazon
shopping through here to support Oxley Nature Center. Our original On-Line
Nature Store is still available, and has a better
selection of some items (such as bird feeders).
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Contact Information
918-669-6644
918-669-6653
5701 East 36th Street North, Tulsa OK 74115 Electronic mail General Information:
Oxley@ci.tulsa.ok.us
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