FREE EVENT! Join us for the 8th annual Get Out and Play Day! There will be adult and kid friendly activities taking place all over Eureka. And the best part… All activities are FREE!
Below is a schedule of activities and where they are taking place. We hope you will join us!
Continue reading Get Out and Play Day Returns July 30, 2022The Sequoia Park Zoo with be offering FREE admission for kids 12 & under with a paying adult. There will also be animal feedings every hour from noon to 4pm!
We hope to see you there!
Continue reading Free Admission to Sequoia Park for GOPDSequoia Park Zoo is seeking adult volunteers for a brand-new education program on the Redwood Sky Walk
Do you love the majesty of our local redwoods? Is Sequoia Park a special place for you? If so, would you like to hang out in the redwood canopy 100 feet above the forest floor and help visitors enjoy the Redwood Sky Walk? If that sounds like you and you’re able to commit to one shift per week through the summer season, then you might have what it takes to be a Redwood Sky Walk Steward! Complete the questionnaire at the link below and find out!
Apply now. Go to https://form.jotform.com/220960658452157.
Contact: Ruth Mock
E-mail: rmock@ci.eureka.ca.gov
EUREKA, CA – The Zoo’s Conservation Advisory Committee has opened the new cycle of conservation grants for 2022. The committee welcomes proposals for projects that have a clear and direct conservation impact on wildlife and/or habitat conservation and that are in line with the Zoo’s mission and conservation priorities. Special consideration is given to projects supporting local wildlife or habitats, although national and international projects are considered as well. Successful applicants are those whose projects can be completed within one year. The maximum award is $1,500. The deadline for applications is Friday, January 28, 2022, at 5:00 PM. For more details and to download an application, please visit Sequoia Park Zoo’s website at:http://www.sequoiaparkzoo.net/conservation/field-conservation/conservation-grant-program/ .
Continue reading SEQUOIA PARK ZOO ANNOUNCES CONSERVATION GRANT OPPORTUNITYThis trail would connect the Waterfront Trail at Tydd Street to the North to Sequoia Park in the South. The trail is currently in the planning phase and the City would like to invite you to learn more about the project.
To be a part of the community meeting, please join this Zoom link on January 21st at 6 p.m.
Contact: Ruth Mock
E-mail: rmock@ci.eureka.ca.gov
EUREKA, CA – The Zoo’s Conservation Advisory Committee has opened the new cycle of conservation grants for 2021. The committee welcomes proposals for projects that have a clear and direct conservation impact on wildlife and/or habitat conservation and that are in line with the Zoo’s mission and conservation priorities. Special consideration is given to projects supporting local wildlife or habitats, although national and international projects are considered as well. Successful applicants are those whose projects can be completed within one year. The maximum award is $1,500. The deadline for applications is Friday, January 29, 2021, at 5:00 PM. For more details and to download an application, please visit Sequoia Park Zoo’s website at http://www.sequoiaparkzoo.net/conservation/field-conservation/conservation-grant-program/.
Continue reading SEQUOIA PARK ZOO ANNOUNCES CONSERVATION GRANT OPPORTUNITYThe first virtual lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 6:45pm.
Barbara Clucas will be joining us from Humboldt State University’s Department of Wildlife to discuss Humboldt’s flying squirrels. She was awarded the Zoo’s Conservation Grant in 2019 and looks forward to sharing the results of her research with our community. Zoo updates and information will begin at 6:45 PM with the lecture starting at 7:00 PM promptly. Attendees can ask questions to the speaker at the end of the presentation via the chat box on Zoom. The Zoom link will be available on our website at www.SequoiaParkZoo.net and on our social media.
Special thanks to Papa & Barkley for sponsoring the Conservation Lecture Series!
Continue reading FREE Virtual Conservation Lecture hosted by Sequoia Park Zoo
Community Services is excited to share family-friendly, Halloween-in-Quarantine events, and activities! While the festivities may look a little different this year, the fun (and candy!) is the same. Both City events have been approved by the Humboldt County Department of Public Health.
The Sequoia Park Zoo has put out a survey about your feeling about the possibility of the Sequoia Park Zoo reopening.
Your opinion counts. Please take this survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LDDSZVS
Thank you.
You probably already knew that kids under 12 get in free at the Sequoia Park Zoo (with a paying adult), on #GOPD2019 but you didn’t know that there are lots of special events taking place at the zoo that day too!
As example, on Get Out & Play Day there will be an animal feeding, encounter or keeper talk every hour from Noon – 4:00 (Noon, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00). Continue reading Kids free at the Zoo on Get Out and Play Day!
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