Calendar of Events
Monadnock Region Natural History Conference
Join us for the third Monadnock Region Natural History Conference, a full day of learning for backyard naturalists, landowners, scientists, students, educators, and anyone who cares about nature in our neck of the woods!
Homeschool Program: Wild at Home
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesCalling all animal allies, nature noticers, and outdoor explorers! Join Harris Center naturalists Karen Rent and Susie Spikol to let your wild side out this fall. Uncover your wonder, and let the natural world be your teacher. Birds, butterflies, salamanders, chipmunks, seeds — come discover it all.
Lunch & Learn: Mighty Monarchs
Join Judy Fink and Emily Wrubel for a photo and video journey to Mexico’s monarch butterfly sanctuaries, where millions cluster in the trees each winter. Learn about their incredible migration and what you can do to help protect these vulnerable butterflies.
Great Brook School: Afterschool Yeti Club
Great Brook Middle School School Street, Antrim, New Hampshire, United StatesCome be a part of fun and adventure in the woods with Yeti Club! We’ll practice wilderness skills like orienteering, fire building, outdoor survival skills, tracking, and more. Open to students in grades 5 through 8 at Great Brook School. Free of charge.
Babies in Backpacks & Toddlers in Tow in Harrisville
Harrisville Harrisville, NHJoin Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol to explore, wander, and discover the magic of nearby nature on a Rail Trail in Harrisville. These pint-sized adventures are perfect for little legs and for babies in front packs, backpacks, slings, or wraps.
Easygoing Hike at the Fremont Field
Join naturalist Susie Spikol and poet-forester Swift Corwin for a late autumn walk through the meadows and forests of Peterborough’s Fremont land. We’ll look for wildlife clues and talk trees with a touch of poetry along the way.
Nature on Tap: Trivia Night
Calling all bird nerds, frog fanatics, and botany buffs! Put your nature knowledge to the test during an evening of nature trivia in Post & Beam’s cozy taproom.
Great Brook School: Afterschool Yeti Club
Great Brook Middle School School Street, Antrim, New Hampshire, United StatesCome be a part of fun and adventure in the woods with Yeti Club! We’ll practice wilderness skills like orienteering, fire building, outdoor survival skills, tracking, and more. Open to students in grades 5 through 8 at Great Brook School. Free of charge.
Mammal Evidence Investigations: A Workshop for Teachers
Join Harris Center teacher-naturalists Jenna Spear, and Jaime Hutchinson for this fun and energizing professional development workshop for teachers of all grades. This session will inspire you to step outside and investigate the secret lives of New Hampshire’s wild land mammals, right from your schoolyard!
Utterly Otters
Join naturalist Susie Spikol for a lively talk on the bounding, sliding, swimming river otter! We’ll spend some time getting to know this charismatic local mammal and learning how to recognize its tracks and sign.
Great Brook School: Afterschool Yeti Club
Great Brook Middle School School Street, Antrim, New Hampshire, United StatesCome be a part of fun and adventure in the woods with Yeti Club! We’ll practice wilderness skills like orienteering, fire building, outdoor survival skills, tracking, and more. Open to students in grades 5 through 8 at Great Brook School. Free of charge.
Birding the Dillant-Hopkins Airport
Join Harris Center ecologist Nate Marchessault and the Monadnock Bird and Nature Club (MBNC) for a morning of easygoing birding at the Dillant-Hopkins Airport — a local birding hotspot with great views of wetlands, woodlands, and fields.
LAB GIRLS+ Experiments From the Wild & In the Field: Mammal Evidence
Hiroshi Land Route 137, Peterborough, NH, United StatesIf you like having hands-on experiences in nature, making discoveries, and studying animals, this club is for you! Connect with tracking professionals and learn how to interpret wild animal evidence, such as tracks, scat, feeding sign, and more.
Easygoing Hike on the Cheshire Rail Trail
Join historian Alan Rumrill and ecologist Brett Amy Thelen for a 2.6-mile walk along the Cheshire Rail Trail, where we'll search for signs of the former Cheshire Railroad, learn how the railroad shaped Keene’s history, and enjoy the subtle beauty of stick season.
52nd Annual Peterborough-Hancock Christmas Bird Count
Every winter for more than 50 years, volunteers have searched for birds in the Peterborough-Hancock area as part of the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) — the largest and longest-running community science project in the world. New volunteers are always welcome!
Getting Started with Student-Generated Inquiry: A Workshop for Teachers
Join Harris Center teacher-naturalists Jenna Spear and Jaime Hutchinson for a dynamic, hands-on workshop for grades 3–8 educators. Learn practical ways to inspire student-led inquiry and outdoor research right in your schoolyard.
