The Lee and Rose Warner Nature Center (WNC)is an outdoor education facility with a focus on natural history. It is located in northern Washington County about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of St. Paul, Minnesota. Warner was the first private nature center in the state of Minnesota. With funding from the Warner Foundation, WNC is the only nature center in the state of Minnesota to still provide free on-site programming to schools.
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