Exhibits

Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center features exhibits that help visitors understand how natural Florida has changed over time and the ecological footprints left by those changes. Our exhibit gallery, Brooker Creek Preserve: Windows to Our Wildest Place, focuses on how the land and the humans who live there are connected to one another. Interpretive Trail Signs along the boardwalks and Education Center Trail guide visitors on a journey of discovery about how water connects us all.

Windows to Our Wildest Place

The discovery-oriented exhibits at Brooker Creek Preserve highlight many aspects of the ecology and history of the area, which allow you to travel back in time, encounter Florida’s subtle seasonal changes, and even experience life as a gopher tortoise. Discover your own connection to nature at Brooker Creek Preserve. The exhibit hall is free and open to the public during the Center’s normal business hours.

Nature, history and art combine in the Center’s opening panel. This exhibit invites you to explore the Preserve and the Environmental Education Center to discover your connection to this wild place.  How many items in the panels can you recognize or identify?

Interpretive Trail Signs

The Interpretive Trail Signs at Brooker Creek Preserve are found along the Education Center Trail Loop, helping visitors discover everything in nature is connected through dynamic relationships. 

The main messages of the signs include:

• Water connects us all.
• You can expand existing natural areas by landscaping for wildlife with Florida-friendly plants.
• Perched wetlands provide a refuge for wildlife during the dry season.
• Wildlife is adapted to the seasonal changes in Brooker Creek’s water level.
• All of your choices impact the watershed, so what you do in your back yard matters.

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