Audubon Acres

To educate and promote an understanding of the responsibility to preserve and protect our environmental, cultural, and historical resources through programming and stewardship.

The Chattanooga Audubon Society was formed in 1944 by Robert Sparks Walker to protect the land on which he had spent his youth, now known as Audubon Acres. Mr. Walker was a highly respected and noted naturalist in the 1900s and his reputation and work lives on today. He believed that we had an obligation to educate people on the ways of nature, that we needed to protect our environment, and that we could learn much from the indigenous people who had lived in this area for thousands of years.