The Mountain Lake Conservancy is excited to announce new and exciting programs for 2008!  Beginning this year, the MLC has begun managing Mountain Lake's Recreation Department and will be offering a wide variety of outdoor programs to our hotel guests as well as the local community.

Special Events
The Mountain Lake Conservancy is also creating special events to entertain the surrounding community such as the 1st Annual BrewRidge Music Festival in April, and our Dirty Dawg Cycling Weekend in June. As always we'll be hosting the Mountain Lake
Migratory Birding Festival in May

Fun Family-friendly Programs
We are adding this year a wide variety of unique family-oriented educational programs.  Please check the community calendar for a weekly update of community programs for your friends and family to participate in.
  
Elderhostel
This year, we are adding four new Elderhostel programs to the four popular programs we're known for such as, "Taking Flight:  Birds and Butterflies for Everyone".  See our complete schedule of Elderhostel programs along with registration information.

Educational Programs
This spring, the MLC is offering our SOL-based Environmental Education programs for area public schools and our home schooling community.  If you are interested in scheduling a field trip with us, see Environmental Education for trip details and registration information.

Wildlife Rescue
We are pleased to announce that we have partnered up with Rudi Woykowski of Rudi's Reptile Removal as our Wildlife Rescue resource for the Conservancy. He will also provide special educational programs about our local wildlife for kids and adults. Rudi will be bringing his locally famous Reptiles and Amphibians program up the mountain this season.

Gamelands
The MLC manages and protects the 2,600 acres of Mountain Lake property and has developed some new Gamelands programs for 2008 to maintain the health of our whitetail deer and wild turkey population.  Since we are a private property, the deer could potentially find a refuge virtually free of predators within our borders, which could lead to overpopulation and the myriad of environmental programs related therein. We have developed some exciting new ways to manage our resources while keeping a sharp focus on our mission.