Ground breaks on Leigh Perkins Conservation Education Center
“An exciting new chapter opened at Tall Timbers this month with a groundbreaking on the Leigh Perkins Conservation Education Center. Once complete, the facility will allow Tall Timbers to host larger groups of up to 300 people to its main campus in the Red Hills region between Thomasville, Georgia, and Tallahassee, Florida. This capacity builds on the organization’s role as the epicenter for research, education, and training on prescribed fire, land conservation and wildlife management. Since its founding in 1958, Tall Timbers has organized 24 Fire Ecology Conferences and is a recognized convener of thought leaders, scientists, conservationists, community groups, and decision-makers. There is a growing need to convene groups and increase understanding of prescribed fire’s benefit land, wildlife, and people. The new education center is named in honor of Leigh Perkins, former Tall Timbers Board member and the man responsible for growing Orvis from a niche sporting company into one of the world’s most respected outdoor brands. When Leigh passed in 2021, the Perkins Family quickly embraced the vision for a state-of-the-art conservation education facility at Tall Timbers as an excellent fit for Leigh’s conservation ethic and drive to help connect people with the outdoors.”
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