Nature Preserve
This unique space is used by our students for hiking, relaxing, researching and taking classes! You may want to drive to this spot due to location.
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Wildlife, Research and More!
🍂🍃🍁 Wildlife, Research and More!
Research in the Nature Preserve
Binghamton University is unique among other schools with such a large, on-campus resource. Few other schools have such direct, easy access to such a variety of natural systems as found here, making this preserve a valuable resource for teaching and learning, ecology, arts, literature and outdoor recreation. Among other things, it is also the largest and best-used laboratory on the Binghamton University campus.
While it has no workstations, sinks, computers or petri dishes, it is home to deer, beaver, fox, mink, muskrat, porcupines and other mammals, a diverse amphibian and reptilian population, and over 200 bird species, the broadest range to be sighted in any one place in the Southern Tier. Its habitats include hemlock forest, oak woodlands, a beaver pond, streams, wetlands, shrubbed meadows and lichen-covered dry sites.
Nature Preserve
No matter what season you’ve chosen for today’s visit, you should make time to explore the Nature Preserve. One of Binghamton's most unique resources, the 190-acre Preserve is made up of forests, a six-acre pond, a 20-acre wetland, meadows and hiking trails. It’s also the largest and best-used laboratory on the Binghamton University campus!
The Preserve is home to deer, beaver, fox, mink, muskrat, porcupines and other mammals, a diverse amphibian and reptilian population, and over two-hundred bird species; see how many different animals you can spot!
The Nature Preserve is just one of many ways Binghamton is committed to sustainability. Hundreds of students volunteer at our Binghamton University Acres, an on-campus small farm. This group is devoted to creating opportunities that develop a deeper awareness of the connections between our food system and ecological and social environments.
Our campus is also set to be the site for the 12th “living building” in the world. Living Buildings serve as models on how to live in harmony with nature rather than having an impact on it. The building will be part of the campus’ Nuthatch Hollow bird sanctuary.
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