Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary has raised 75% of its $20 million goal for its capital campaign to transform its campus and conduct the science and collaboration needed to preserve its 13,000 acres.

With $5 million left to be raised, the reimagined campus will include new spaces, including the John “Jack” Hayworth Western Everglades Research Center, the Brian and Heidi Miller Land Stewardship Operations Center and the Paul Pacter Outdoor Classroom.

The campus transformation began with new interpretive displays along the boardwalk and within the Blair Visitor Center. Visitors now encounter more than 50 eye-catching and educational signs that explain the importance of prescribed fire, the wonders of wetlands, what makes a healthy watershed, cultural history, species identification and many other topics. All boardwalk interpretive signs include a QR code that leads to sign content translated into Spanish and Haitian Creole.

Still to come this spring is the opening of the newly redesigned Spurlino Foundation Discovery Center exhibit hall within the Blair Visitor Center, with displays that can be seen, heard and touched.