COVID-19 UPDATE: The Harris Center is canceling or postponing all in-person programs and events through May 4. The Harris Center building will also be closed to visitors until May 4. Our trails and grounds remain open.
Calendar of Events
May 2020
Rainbow Hike at Goodhue Hill
Join Dee Denehy, Jenn Sutton, and Liz Lawler (and baby Wren) for an LGBTQ+-friendly hike through the Mill Pond and Goodhue Hill areas of the dePierrefeu-Willard Pond Wildlife Sanctuary.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Emerson and Thoreau
Join us to explore Emerson's classic essay “Nature” and Thoreau's essay “Walking." Short, sweet, and full of big ideas, these essays provide a lively introduction to two quintessentially American thinkers.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Exploring the Geology of the Monadnock Region
Join 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 our region.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Emerson and Thoreau
Join us to explore Emerson's classic essay “Nature” and Thoreau's essay “Walking." Short, sweet, and full of big ideas, these essays provide a lively introduction to two quintessentially American thinkers.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Exploring the Geology of the Monadnock Region
Join 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 our region.
Learn more »The Role of Depots in Small Town New Hampshire
Join Alan Rumrill, Director of the Historical Society of Cheshire County, for an enlightening talk on the role that train depots played in small town New England.
Learn more »Elmwood Junction: A Depot Reclaimed
Join Alan Rumrill of the Historical Society of Cheshire County and Eagle Scout Sigmund Winiecki of Peterborough Scout Troop 8 for a guided walk around the former Elmwood Junction Railroad Station on a new interpretive trail built by Sigmund.
Learn more »Caterpillars of New England: Uncovering the Whole Story
Join Sam Jaffe of The Caterpillar Lab for an artist's reception and talk that explores backyard pollinators, plants, parasitoids, and the many caterpillars that are positioned at the center of it all.
Learn more »June 2020
Environmental Studies Institute: Exploring the Geology of the Monadnock Region
Join 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 our region.
Learn more »New Hampshire Bat Counts Volunteer Training
This summer, NHFG and UNH Extension are seeking volunteers to conduct bat counts at known roost sites in the Monadnock Region. To participate, join wildlife biologists Sandi Houghton and Haley Andreozzi for this indoor-outdoor volunteer training.
Learn more »Babies in Backpacks and Toddlers in Tow
Join naturalist Susie Spikol for this gentle spring ramble, specially geared towards babies, toddlers, and their caregivers.
Learn more »Easygoing Hike up Mount Watatic
Join Rich Taylor for a 3-mile roundtrip hike on the Wapack Trail to the summit of Mount Watatic. The trail rises about 500 feet, but the views from the summit are worth it.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Wild Herbs and Tinctures with Herbalist Brenna Morris
Join herbalist Brenna Morris to learn how to mindfully harness the medicine inherent in plants.
Learn more »Nighthawk Watch
Help keep track of Keene's most charismatic endangered bird by joining us for an evening of nighthawk monitoring.
Learn more »Environmental Studies Institute: Exploring the Geology of the Monadnock Region
Join 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 our region.
Learn more »New England Ferns
Join Lynn Levine – naturalist, forester, and author of "Identifying Ferns the Easy Way" – for an afternoon workshop on ferns.
Learn more »Harris Center Classic: Royalston Falls Hike
Join Denny Wheeler and Brian Bishoff for a 3.5-mile roundtrip to scenic Royalston Falls, just south of the Massachusetts border. The trail winds through groves of rhododendron, which should be in bloom.
Learn more »eBird for Beginners
Join local bird expert Steven Lamonde of Antioch University New England for this hands-on introduction to eBird, where we’ll learn how to record and share our bird sightings, and to explore sightings shared by others.
Learn more »Harris Center Big Year of Birding: Uncommon Breeders of the SuperSanctuary
Join Eric Masterson for this next installment in our “Big Year” series of birding outings to Harris Center protected lands – a search for the SuperSanctuary's less common breeding birds.
Learn more »Hiking Through the Decades: Willard Pond
In celebration of our 50th Anniversary, we're offering Hiking Through the Decades, a four-hike series that traces the history of the Harris Center's land protection efforts. In this edition, Eric Masterson and Phil Brown will discuss some of the 1990s land conservation work that protected the shoreline of Willard Pond.
Learn more »Bird Banding Demonstration
Get an up-close look at the science of songbirds during this bird banding demonstration by ornithologist Dr. Patricia Wohner.
Learn more »Bicycling the SuperSanctuary in Hancock and Harrisville
Join Russ Cobb and Richard Pendleton for a challenging, but easy-paced 30-mile bike ride around Hancock and Harrisville. The route includes paved and dirt roads and maybe a trail or two, so a gravel or mountain bike is recommended.
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