Calendar of Events
May 2021
Environmental Studies Institute: Introduction to Slow Birding
This four-week course is designed to help you fine-tune your innate birding skills while creating a deeper connection to birds, the place you live, and yourself. Great for beginners and experienced birders alike!
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: The Biology & Inspiration of Birdsong
Join us for a four-week exploration of the biology of birdsong, and how bird music has inspired humans throughout time. Discover how and why birds sing, and how writers, poets, and musicians have translated birdsong into art.
Learn more »Circus in the Woods
Jugglers among the trees. Wire walkers in the ferns. Acrobats and contortionists in the meadows. Celebrate spring with the Flying Gravity Circus! Outdoors, family-friendly, and COVID-cautious.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Introduction to Slow Birding
This four-week course is designed to help you fine-tune your innate birding skills while creating a deeper connection to birds, the place you live, and yourself. Great for beginners and experienced birders alike!
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: The Biology & Inspiration of Birdsong
Join us for a four-week exploration of the biology of birdsong, and how bird music has inspired humans throughout time. Discover how and why birds sing, and how writers, poets, and musicians have translated birdsong into art.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Introduction to Slow Birding
This four-week course is designed to help you fine-tune your innate birding skills while creating a deeper connection to birds, the place you live, and yourself. Great for beginners and experienced birders alike!
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Introduction to Slow Birding
This four-week course is designed to help you fine-tune your innate birding skills while creating a deeper connection to birds, the place you live, and yourself. Great for beginners and experienced birders alike!
Learn more »Fungi Foray with the Morel Quandary Club
Join the Morel Quandary Club for a spring ramble about the Hiroshi Land, where we'll search for mushrooms, slime molds, and other fascinating fungal finds.
Learn more »New Hampshire’s Loons
Join the Loon Preservation Committee to learn about the biology, life history, and challenges facing loons — as well as ways you can help loons thrive on New Hampshire lakes.
Learn more »June 2021
Project Nighthawk Volunteer Training
Help keep track of Keene's most charismatic endangered bird by joining us for a virtual "Project Nighthawk" volunteer training!
Learn more »Living Light: Fireflies, Light Pollution & What You Can Do To Help
Join entomologist Avalon C.S. Owens to learn how light pollution affects fireflies — along with some simple solutions for ensuring that our lights don't interfere with their unique bioluminescent signals.
Learn more »Salamanders Count!
Join us we survey for red-backed salamanders as part of a national study. Try your hand at field science, and help biologists make discoveries about this common, but still mysterious species!
Learn more »Pond Exploration at Robin Hood Park
Have you ever wondered what insects, amphibians, and crustaceans might live in Robin Hood Pond? Join Harris Center naturalist Karen Rent for a fun exploration of the aquatic animals that call this pond home.
Learn more »Fungi Foray with the Morel Quandary Club
Join the Morel Quandary Club to search local fields and forests for all types of fungus. Our adventures will be no ordinary field trips!
Learn more »Tour de SuperSanctuary
Join Russ Cobb and Richard Pendleton for a challenging, but easy-paced 30-mile bike ride around the SuperSanctuary on a combination of pavement, dirt, and gravel roads.
Learn more »In Fine Feather: A Musical Walk on the Hiroshi Loop Trail
In Fine Feather is a self-guided musical hike inspired by birdsong. Prior to your walk, join musician Jazimina MacNeil and poet and naturalist Henry Walters for an introductory talk on the stories behind the music and poems, the biology of birdsong, and the ways in which humans and birds listen to and inspire each other.
Learn more »In Fine Feather: A Musical Walk on the Hiroshi Loop Trail
In Fine Feather is a self-guided musical hike inspired by birdsong. Prior to your walk, join musician Jazimina MacNeil and poet and naturalist Henry Walters for an introductory talk on the stories behind the music and poems, the biology of birdsong, and the ways in which humans and birds listen to and inspire each other.
Learn more »July 2021
Fungi Foray with the Morel Quandary Club
Join the Morel Quandary Club to search local fields and forests for all types of fungus. Our adventures will be no ordinary field trips!
Learn more »Paddling Robb Reservoir
Join Jeremy Wilson and Brett Amy Thelen for a leisurely paddle on Robb Reservoir in Stoddard, where we'll look for eagles, turtles, herons, and more.
Learn more »Animal Tales Around the Campfire
Join naturalist Susie Spikol for an evening of animal stories from near and far. Gather around the campfire for magical tales from the more-than-human world, including how Bullfrog came to be and how Hummingbird made the stars.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Yoga by the Frog Pond
Immerse yourself in the sounds and sensations of a summer evening as we play and explore in a sweet flowing yoga practice on the Harris Center grounds.
Learn more »Monitoring for Monarchs
Join Harris Center ecologists Brett Amy Thelen and Karen Seaver to survey for monarch eggs and caterpillars in a Harris Center-conserved milkweed patch in Peterborough. No experience necessary!
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Yoga by the Frog Pond
Immerse yourself in the sounds and sensations of a summer evening as we play and explore in a sweet flowing yoga practice on the Harris Center grounds.
Learn more »Moth Lighting with The Caterpillar Lab
Join The Caterpillar Lab for an evening of moth lighting! Bring your curiosity, and prepare to be amazed by the diversity, size, and beauty of our local nocturnal insects.
Learn more »Camp Chenoa Hike
Join Jenna Spear and Jeremy Wilson for a 2-mile, moderately strenuous roundtrip hike through the Camp Chenoa property in Antrim, with views of a magnificent wetland.
Learn more »Youth Program: Monitoring for Monarchs
Join Harris Center ecologist Karen Seaver and LAB GIRLS leaders Susie Spikol and Emily Wrubel for a morning in the milkweed patch doing real, hands-on field science.
Learn more »OUTing! to Nubanusit Lake
Join Dee Denehy (she, her), Richard Doherty (he, him), and Hunter Kirschner (he, him) for an LGBTQ+ paddle on Nubanusit Lake. After the paddle, we’ll have access to a private area for swimming, relaxing, and fostering community.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Yoga by the Frog Pond
Immerse yourself in the sounds and sensations of a summer evening as we play and explore in a sweet flowing yoga practice on the Harris Center grounds.
Learn more »August 2021
LAB GIRLS Goes to the Stream
Calling all 5th through 8th grade girls for a macroinvertebrate stream survey! Using waders and kicknets, we’ll sample a local stream for small bugs. Then, we’ll use our collection to determine the water quality of the stream.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Yoga by the Frog Pond
Immerse yourself in the sounds and sensations of a summer evening as we play and explore in a sweet flowing yoga practice on the Harris Center grounds.
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