As part of the preserve’s transfer, the Winkler family is also donating $4 million to NOVA Parks to maintain and improve the preserve and ramp up programming.
Created in the 1970s, the Winkler Botanical Preserve was a particularly prescient idea for its time. Catherine Winkler Herman, an environmentalist and philanthropist, established the once-private property to honor her real estate developer husband as Alexandria was rapidly urbanizing.
“The enormity of this gift cannot be overstated,” Cate Magennis Wyatt, the chair of NOVA Parks, said in an interview. “To have this park continue to serve as an educational oasis for the students of Alexandria and elsewhere as well as open space for the benefit all is astonishing.” The preserve was designed by Winkler Herman’s daughter, Tori Winkler Thomas, a landscape architect who designed and ran ecological education programs out of the preserve’s log cabin headquarters.
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