Calendar of Events
Miles Stahmann
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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.
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.
Winter Walk at Goose Pond
Join Harris Center naturalist Nikko Gagnon for a leisurely winter hike around Goose Pond. Together, we’ll take time to notice animal tracks and sign, snap photographs, and use binoculars to observe this beautiful area in its quiet season. You may be surprised by how much life is still bustling in the cold months!
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 winter as we explore tracks, scat, winter birds, and the secrets of animal survival.
Environmental Studies Institute: Winter Tracking & Sign
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesLearn to read the winter woods with Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol. Together, we’ll explore local fields and forests in search of tracks, trails, and other clues that reveal how animals move through the cold season.
Easygoing Hike on the Greenfield Rail Trail
Join naturalist Susie Spikol and forest ecologist Jeremy Wilson for a trees-and-tracks meander along the old railroad corridor from Peterborough to Greenfield and back. This easygoing, 2.5-mile outing follows a flat, wide trail — perfect for an unhurried winter walk.
Stories in Stone: A Winter History Hike at Mason Quarry
Join Miki Clements and Robert Larochelle for a moderate 3-mile hike through the historic Mason Quarry, with stops at a railroad workers’ memorial, old foundations, and the storied Wolf Rock.
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 winter as we explore tracks, scat, winter birds, and the secrets of animal survival.
Environmental Studies Institute: Winter Tracking & Sign
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesLearn to read the winter woods with Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol. Together, we’ll explore local fields and forests in search of tracks, trails, and other clues that reveal how animals move through the cold season.
Birding for All: Winter Feeder Watch
Join Harris Center staff members Phil Brown and Susie Spikol for a morning of observing and identifying birds at the Harris Center’s feeders. Birding for All outings are designed for people of all abilities, including those who experience accessibility challenges as a result of a disability or other health concern. Beginning birders welcome!
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 winter as we explore tracks, scat, winter birds, and the secrets of animal survival.
Environmental Studies Institute: Winter Tracking & Sign
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesLearn to read the winter woods with Harris Center naturalist Susie Spikol. Together, we’ll explore local fields and forests in search of tracks, trails, and other clues that reveal how animals move through the cold season.
Wolf Moon Meander
Let your wild side shine on this 2-mile hike to Juggernaut Pond, where we'll explore the winter landscape by moonlight, watch for the eyeshine of nocturnal mammals, and soak in the crisp night air.
Wolf Moon Meander
Let your wild side shine on this 2-mile hike to Juggernaut Pond, where we'll explore the winter landscape by moonlight, watch for the eyeshine of nocturnal mammals, and soak in the crisp night air.
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 winter as we explore tracks, scat, winter birds, and the secrets of animal survival.
Conservation Medicine & Winter Seabirds with the Center for Wildlife
Join Dan Gardoqui and Phil Brown for a private tour of Maine’s Center for Wildlife to explore conservation-focused rehabilitation, then head to the rocky coasts of Ogunquit and York to search for winter seabirds like harlequin ducks, eiders, and scoters.
Wilderness Survival Skills for Middle Schoolers
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesLearn the fundamentals of winter survival! We’ll guide beginners through essential winter skills, including fire building, water collecting, and crucial first aid. Bring your enthusiasm for the outdoors, and we'll handle the rest. For ages 10 to 14.
February Vacation Camp
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesGather your energy and curiosity for three exciting days outdoors with Harris Center teacher-naturalists! We’ll look for animal signs, listen for bird calls, and engineer our own winter forts. For children in grades K through 4.
Wilderness Survival Skills for Middle Schoolers
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesLearn the fundamentals of winter survival! We’ll guide beginners through essential winter skills, including fire building, water collecting, and crucial first aid. Bring your enthusiasm for the outdoors, and we'll handle the rest. For ages 10 to 14.
February Vacation Camp
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesGather your energy and curiosity for three exciting days outdoors with Harris Center teacher-naturalists! We’ll look for animal signs, listen for bird calls, and engineer our own winter forts. For children in grades K through 4.
Wilderness Survival Skills for Middle Schoolers
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesLearn the fundamentals of winter survival! We’ll guide beginners through essential winter skills, including fire building, water collecting, and crucial first aid. Bring your enthusiasm for the outdoors, and we'll handle the rest. For ages 10 to 14.
February Vacation Camp
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesGather your energy and curiosity for three exciting days outdoors with Harris Center teacher-naturalists! We’ll look for animal signs, listen for bird calls, and engineer our own winter forts. For children in grades K through 4.
Wilderness Survival Skills for Middle Schoolers
Harris Center for Conservation Education 83 Kings Hwy, Hancock, NH, United StatesLearn the fundamentals of winter survival! We’ll guide beginners through essential winter skills, including fire building, water collecting, and crucial first aid. Bring your enthusiasm for the outdoors, and we'll handle the rest. For ages 10 to 14.
Summer Camp Registration Opens
For more than 40 years, the Harris Center’s summer programs have invited preschoolers through middle schoolers to explore fields, forests, ponds, and mountains through hiking, canoeing, climbing, art, and hands-on discovery with skilled naturalists. In 2026, summer camp runs July 13–17 and 20–24, with a special leadership camp June 29–July 2. Registration opens at 9 a.m. on March 3.
Winter Tracking for Families at Goose Pond
Join teacher-naturalist Nikko Gagnon for a family-friendly tracking adventure in Keene. We’ll search the woods and pond edges for leapers, bounders, waddlers, and walkers, and find out which wildlife species call this special place home.
Beginner Birding at the Dillant-Hopkins Airport
Join avid birders Wendy Gibbons and Jane Wing for an introduction to birding at the Dillant-Hopkins Airport, a local birding hot spot with great views of wetlands, woods, and fields.
The Kestrels Young Birders Club: Snowy Owl Search on Plum Island
Are you a teenager or tween with an interest in birds and birding? Build community with other young birders as part of The Kestrels Young Birders Club! Visit the marshes and dunes at Plum Island in search of Snowy Owls. Don’t miss this opportunity to grow your skills and connect with other wildlife fans.
Birding Plum Island
Join avid birders Kim Snyder and Nate Marchessault to search for seabirds, shorebirds, and maybe even Snowy Owls along the 8-mile barrier beach and adjacent marshes of Plum Island — a prime spot for winter birding.
Easygoing Hike to Sip Pond
Join Phil Brown and avid hiker Jessie James for a 1.6-mile round-trip hike through the Chamberlain Conservation Area on the Sip Pond peninsula, where we’ll look for early signs of spring and the birds that make this scenic trail a local favorite.
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 search for signs of spring — from birds and blooms to bugs and buds. What will you discover?
