Arnie Schwartz has been leading the Lokanda Nature and Science Program for 22 years and there is no one better to help our campers understand the beautiful world around us. The Nature Cabin is filled with a wide variety of snakes, tarantulas, lizards of every description, talking birds, frogs, turtles, guinea pigs, ferrets and other creatures too numerous to mention.

In pens outside the cabin, you will find goats, rabbits, pigs, sheep, and even an emu or two. Every year Arnie brings two or three new creatures to Lokanda and he teaches our campers how to hold the animals, how to feed them, and how to gently interact with them in our playpen. In addition, Arnie has a huge 500 gallon salt water fish tank stocked with an amazing assortment of beautifully colored denizens of the deep.

In addition, each week, Arnie will introduce a core scientific theme such as Electricity and Magnetism or Optical Illusions. He will have several new exhibits designed to completely mystify even the most sophisticated of campers.