Friends of Steele Creek Nature Center and Park

“The purpose of Friends of Steele Creek Nature Center and Park is to assist the Steele Creek Nature Center and Park as a conservation center within the community of Bristol where land and people can be united for educational, recreational, cultural, and scientific pursuits.” Objectives: To help protect, preserve, catalog, and manage the park’s natural resources; To develop natural history and conservation education programs in cooperation with schools, colleges, hospitals, youth groups, and adult organizations which will develop an understanding and appreciation of natural resources; To cooperate with national, state, county, municipal, and private natural resource agencies in providing an outdoor laboratory in which to demonstrate natural resources problems and management techniques; To provide opportunities for individual and family pursuit of hobbies or more serious interests in natural resources; To provide trails and facilities so that individuals and family groups may visit the Center for the recreation and enjoyment of being in the outdoors; To develop a volunteer program and coordinate find raising programs for the perpetuation and expansion of the Nature Center and Park.