News Release

Parkway Presents Junior Ranger Program “Trees Have Families, Too”

Date: May 11, 2018
Contact: Jane Farmer, 662-680-4026

TUPELO, MS:  The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to “Trees Have Families, Too” a Junior Ranger program to be held at the Parkway Visitor Center at 10:00 am on Saturday, May 19, 2018.  Join a park ranger for this 45-minute program to learn about tree families and how they are part of our human communities. Trees help to provide an element of survival in our ecosystems along the Natchez Trace Parkway, as well as our local back yards. This free hands-on program is ideal for children seven to 12 years old, but everyone is welcome.
 
The Parkway Visitor Center is located at milepost 266 on the Natchez Trace Parkway, near Tupelo, Mississippi. For additional information, please call [phone] or [phone]. 
 
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