Nature's Trading Post teaches children about responsible collecting and preservation of the environment. Following collecting guidelines, a visitor can bring in an item made by nature and earn points for the information about their item that they can share with Nature's Trading Post staff.
Nature's Trading Post Guidelines
Some of the items we accept for trade:
- Living natural objects: from plants (leaves, seeds, pressed plants, wood) and from animals (shells, cocoons, spider webs, teeth, antlers, snake-skin, turtle shells, clean bones, exo-skeletons of insects).
- Non-living natural objects: rocks, fossils and sand.
What we can't accept for trade:
- Any item regulated by U.S, Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Act, CITIES* or other local, state, national or international laws and agreements (no eggs, feathers or bird nests).
- No taxidermy or "stuffed" animals.
- No living or dead (killed, hunted or found) animals.
- No items found at archaeological sites.
- Nothing that is icky, smelly or meaty.
*Convention International Trades of Endangered Species
How do I earn points?
The key to earning points through trading is the quality of information you can tell us about your object. Some key questions that we will ask you about your object include:
- What is your object?
- Where did you find your object?
- If you have remnants of an animal, what kind of animal? What did it eat? Where was its habitat?
- What else can you tell us about your object?
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