 Founded
in 1998, The Walnut Creek Center for Education and Research (WCCER)
is a partnership between Yavapai College, Prescott College, Northern
Arizona University, Sharlot Hall Museum, and Prescott National
Forest. Prescott College is the lead institution of the WCCER.
WCCER occupies the Forest Service's decommisioned Walnut
Creek Station and administrative site. A diversity of researchers,
students, and public visitors utilize the 250-acre site of Arizona
uplands and riparian gallery forest each year. Presently WCCER
hosts a hantavirus longitudinal study funded by the Centers for
Disease Control and an arenavirus distribution survey funded by
the National Institutes of Health. WCCER has completed a biological
inventory grant from the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
In its relatively short history, the WCCER has blossomed with diverse
scientific projects.
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