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Join the Nelson Conservation Commission for a morning of pulling invasive barberry along the Bailey Brook Trail. Many hands make light work — and, hopefully, more room for native plants to thrive!
Join Susie Spikol and Jeremy Wilson for an analytical look at forests and trees as social beings. A course for those of you who want to see the forest and the trees, and understand how they work together.
Join the Morel Quandary Club to search local fields and forests for all types of fungus. Our adventures will be no ordinary field trips!
Join Phil Brown for a look at the upcoming hawk migration season and the migration spectacle that can be viewed from the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory. You’ll be well prepared for peak migration after this evening of stories and stunning raptor images!
Learn about the projects our 50th Anniversary Fund has already helped launch — including cutting-edge migration research and a new book on the history of local Indigenous people. All donors to the 50th Fund are invited to attend this event and will receive an invitation in the mail.
Join Susie Spikol and Jeremy Wilson for an analytical look at forests and trees as social beings. A course for those of you who want to see the forest and the trees, and understand how they work together.
Join noted ecologist Tom Wessels for a conversation about his new book, "New England's Roadside Ecology" -- a guide to the natural history of 30 extraordinary places from Connecticut to Maine, all within an easy walk from a road.
Jack's Pond in Hancock is named after a once-enslaved African who gained his freedom and lived nearby in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Join us for a 1.75-mile roundtrip hike, where we'll learn about Jack's life, and how Black history that's been so long in the shadows is now coming to light.
Families with young children: join Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol on the second Tuesday of each month to wander trails and meadows in search of wild finds! This is a great opportunity to discover nearby nature, and to connect with other families who like to spend time outside.
Calling all animal allies, nature noticers, and outdoor explorers ages 6 through 12! Join Harris Center naturalists John Benjamin and Susie Spikol for four Wednesdays this fall to let your wild side out.
Join educator Liza Lowe for monthly family-friendly explorations in and around the green spaces of Keene. Tune into the changing seasons with your little ones, and enjoy the company of other families that like to be outside.
Calling all animal allies, nature noticers, and outdoor explorers ages 6 through 12! Join Harris Center naturalists John Benjamin and Susie Spikol for four Wednesdays this fall to let your wild side out.
Join Dr. Frederick Rogers to learn about minerals, rocks, plate tectonics, geologic time, the forces that shape landscapes, and what these things can tell us about the history of the Monadnock Region.
Join the Morel Quandary Club to look for polypores, russulas, amanitas, and other fabulous fungi, while learning the key points to mushroom identification.
Make a difference for our local rivers during the Connecticut River Conservancy’s 25th Annual Source to Sea Cleanup! In the Monadnock Region, we’ll focus on Beaver Brook and the Ashuelot River in Keene and Swanzey.
Make a difference for our local rivers during the Connecticut River Conservancy’s 25th Annual Source to Sea Cleanup! In the Monadnock Region, we’ll focus on Beaver Brook and the Ashuelot River in Keene and Swanzey.
Get to know the plants and wildlife found in and around Norway Pond during this walk with ecologists Jeff Littleton and Steven Lamonde. This event is part of the 2021 NH BioBlitz, a statewide project encouraging people to record species found on town-owned lands all over New Hampshire.
Join Brett Amy Thelen and Karen Seaver for an afternoon of monitoring our redbacked salamander research plots. We’ll start with a brief introduction to redbacked salamander ecology and to our study methods, then head into the woods to survey for salamanders. No experience necessary!
Calling all animal allies, nature noticers, and outdoor explorers ages 6 through 12! Join Harris Center naturalists John Benjamin and Susie Spikol for four Wednesdays this fall to let your wild side out.
Join Dr. Frederick Rogers to learn about minerals, rocks, plate tectonics, geologic time, the forces that shape landscapes, and what these things can tell us about the history of the Monadnock Region.
Jack's Pond in Hancock is named after a once-enslaved African who gained his freedom and lived nearby in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Join us for a 1.75-mile roundtrip hike, where we'll learn about Jack's life, and how Black history that's been so long in the shadows is now coming to light.
Join Denny Wheeler and Brian Bishoff for a 4-mile roundtrip hike to picturesque Lily Pond through The Nature Conservancy’s 1,300-acre Surry Mountain Preserve, located just a stone’s throw from Keene.