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We Welcome Holly Theobald: Highlands Biological Station
Written By: Winter Gary | Issue: March-2022
Holly Theobold is taking the reins of the Highlands Nature Center’s extremely popular Nature Camp Program. Registration has begun, visit highlandsbiological.org.
Holly Theobald
The Highlands Nature Center has been a treasure on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau for nearly
a century.
This museum, just minutes away from downtown Highlands, features natural history exhibits, live animals, and educational programming for visitors of all ages. To this day, it continues to grow along with the needs of the community.
For most of its history, the Nature Center relied on a single educator and seasonal staff to host summer camps, tours, outreach, and more. As the community expanded, however, so did the opportunities to inspire and educate people about our unique region.
For the past seven years, the Highlands Biological Foundation has staffed the Highlands Nature Center year-round, providing increased public programs and events not only in the summer but in the off-season as well.
Now, the Nature Center is expanding again.
We’re proud to welcome Holly Theobald to the Nature Center’s staff. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Studies and has worked in a variety of science-focused organizations, which culminated in her becoming an environmental educator. Last year, she served as one of the Nature Center’s seasonal staff members and has returned as a permanent member of the team.
Now the point person for the Nature Center’s ever popular summer camps, Holly is most looking forward to creating a fun, interactive, and informative camp season, and to working with local organizations to create community programming. She will join Paige Engelbrektsson in providing the Plateau community and visitors with year-round programming focused on the natural history of the southern Appalachians and the unique biodiversity of the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau.
Nature Center camps will be offered between June and August for children aged 4 to 12 years.
The Highlands Nature Center is part of the Highlands Biological Station, a multi-campus center of Western Carolina University. To learn more about HBF’s nature camps and other programming, please visit highlandsbiological.org.
Welcome, Holly! Welcome to our beautiful little mountain town, to this active and inspiring community, and to the Highlands Biological Foundation team!
