Straddling The South Carolina-Georgia Border, The Savannah National Wildlife Refuge Is One Of The Most Unique Places You'll Ever Visit

One of the members of the Friends of the Savannah Coastal Wildlife Refuges, which raised the money to build the facility, President Rick Shields, is a physician who grew up in Ohio tromping around in creeks and pastures with his three siblings, sometimes all day. He knows most kids today play outdoors in a more sanitized way, if they're ever even pulled away from the screens that dominate our culture at all. Richard Louv's work, Last Child in the Woods, addresses the vanishing experience of outdoor play, and it really resonated with Rick.

Although the wildlife refuge can't possibly replicate a Baby Boomer's childhood, it can definitely expose kids to nature and the outdoors. "The idea is about who is going to defend and protect the refuge if people don't grow up with any outdoor experience," Shields said. This learning center is ideal for helping to educate and develop greater interest in order to pass along the responsibility of caring for these beautiful parts of our planet that need to be preserved on to the next generation.