The Pine Jog Environmental Education Center is an education center located in

Palm Beach County Palm Beach County is a county located in the southeastern part of Florida and lies directly north of Broward County and Miami-Dade County. The county had a population of 1,492,191 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous county ...

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, United States. The center's mission is to develop, provide and model

environmental education Environmental education (EE) refers to organized efforts to teach how natural environments function, and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably. It is a multi-disciplinary field integrating discip ...

programs in order to promote an understanding of the

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and its inhabitants. Established in 1960 by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Kay on of

wilderness Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

, the center today hosts over 25,000 students, 750 teachers and 12,500 adults/families annually. The center is a unit of the

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Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University (Florida Atlantic or FAU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida, and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Florida, Dania Beach, Davie, Florida, Davie, Fort Lauderd ...

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Pine Jog Official websiteFlorida Atlantic University Official website
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