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Join us for an exploration of the first flowers of spring. The display is sure to please, and the date will be determined by the flowers. We will be visiting 2 separate sites; the first will be very easily accessible. The second will involve more uneven terrain. Feel free to join us for both locations or just the first. Click the link below to be notified of the date.
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Co-Sponsored with Upper Saco Valley Land Trust
Birds have been evolving for 160 million years, proliferating from a single ancestor to the 11,131 species that fill every corner of our planet today. Long-term drivers of this evolution have included pressure from predators, competitors and the environment. Compared to birds, Homo sapiens are evolutionarily young, but over the course of just the past 265 years, since the profligate use of fossil fuels sparked our Industrial Revolution, humans have changed the environment around us in profound ways. This talk will explore the ways that human culture, including our consumption of fossil fuels and land-use practices, have had grave consequences for birds. We will also discuss how, in this rapidly-changing landscape, each one of us can play a role in conserving our natural resources.
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATE OF MAY 8 DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS
Come walk on Tin Mountain Conservation Center's Bearpaw lands on Route 302 in East Conway with forester Dan Stepanauskas. The tour will include the silvicultural science behind choosing which trees to grow, and how these decisions will affect carbon sequestration and wildlife habitat. Selecting trees that will adapt to climate change enables us to take the long view.
It’s been a while! Time to dust off your thinking cap and exercise your mental muscles with us during some environmental trivia! Come with a team of friends, or join one when you arrive. $5/per person donation.
Join birders of all levels on this weekly bird walk through the Brownfield Bog and view the rich diversity of bird life that makes its way north to rest or nest. Bring binoculars (or borrow ours), rubber boots, and a snack.
Bogs are unique natural features in New England, ecosystems rich in flora and fauna. Depending upon where you live and your families’ heritage, a bog may be called a fen, heath, mire, moor, muskeg, peatland, quagmire, spong, swamp or even a pocosin. Join us for an engaging evening with author and speaker Tom Eid. Tom will discuss bog, fen, and wetland ecosystems as well as his book A Bog’s Life: 37 Bogs to Discover and Explore Throughout New England. He will provide an overview of New England’s wetland ecosystems and habitats as well as bog, fen, and swamp formation and characteristics. Tom will also discuss unique floral communities of bogs and fens and rare ground plants, orchids, shrubs, and trees found in bogs. He will also discuss examples of bogs and fens in the Albany area that are featured in his book.
Join birders of all levels on this weekly bird walk through the Brownfield Bog and view the rich diversity of bird life that makes its way north to rest or nest. Bring binoculars (or borrow ours), rubber boots, and a snack.
Join us for morning field trips, our annual awards, and lunch followed by the keynote presentation on Loon Monitoring in New Hampshire
Schedule:
-7am Birding in the Bog with Chris Lewey
-9:30am Spring Wander with Heather McKendry
-11am Business Meeting & Awards
-12pm Lunch
-1pm Keynote Presentation: Loon Monitoring in NH with Dana Fox
Cost: $10/adult, child 12 & under free
Join birders of all levels on this weekly bird walk through the Brownfield Bog and view the rich diversity of bird life that makes its way north to rest or nest. Bring binoculars (or borrow ours), rubber boots, and a snack.
