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The Whitehouse Nature Center plays an important role in classroom instruction at Albion College and offers its facilities and services as an environmental education area to public schools and the community.

The Whitehouse Nature Center features six self-guided trails, 400 plant species, 168 bird species, of oak-hickory and flood-plain forest, a tall-grass prairie and spring in the Adele D. Whitehouse Wildflower Garden, an arboretum of Michigan trees and shrubs, of farmland and research projects, and an interpretative building with classrooms, observation room, porch, and restrooms.

Every spring a controlled burn is performed in the prairie section of the nature center in order to restore and perpetuate the native prairie ecosystem.