The need for a new Arboretum Center
Today the Arboretum Visitor's Center includes one classroom that serves as an art gallery, lunchroom, boardroom, volunteer and staff workroom, children's classroom, community meeting room, and lecture hall. Without adequate facilities, these activities compete for space, limiting the size of the audience and the number of programs that can be offered.
Programs are expanding in response to the public's interest and demand for quality programs about ecology and native plants. Schools are also looking to the Arboretum for curriculum supplements and class trips. This increased demand for programs has created the need to expand facilities.
Additional facilities for educational programs will enable the Arboretum to reach a broader audience-children, families, amateur and professional horticulturists, natural resource managers, land planners, the nursery industry, and land developers-and to serve the region as:
