Veterans and Family Mushroom and Nature Walk
On Saturday September 13 th a group of veterans and their family gathered at Zaepfel Preserve for an informative nature walk centered on...
🌿 Founder’s Day: A Celebration of Life and Legacy at Zaepfel Nature Center
On June 7, 2025, the Zaepfel Nature Center came alive with heartfelt stories, laughter, and the quiet beauty of the natural world as...
Disabled Veteran Hunt
While hunting is FAR from what the Nature Center is all about, we are proud to partner with the Napoli Christian Camp Grounds to offer a...
Cleaning Out Wood Duck Boxes
The Center is lucky enough to have a few duck "experts" on its roster. A couple of these people are Jeff Bosworth and Marty Bentley. Two...
Please Stop the Balloon Pollution
Each year we walk our beautiful trails throughout the Center, and each year we find garbage. For us, it is usually old garbage - bullet...
Quiet in the Winter
When winter comes around, forcing us indoors, most of us start to get antsy and find ourselves getting annoyed at the littlest of things....
Late Season Mother Nature
As any WNYer will tell you, early or late season snowfall can have a devastating effect on everything it touches. This is mostly due to...
Reflections of Nature
Nothing much to say here. The pictures and title do all the talking...
A Creek Walk with a Surprise
There's nothing that hits you more in the "feels" than a nature surprise. Something that you've never witnessed. Something that stops you...
A Wintery Walk
Beaver markings, bald eagles, broken dams, large old white pines...you never know what a simple Winter Walk will reveal at Zaepfel.
