Wildlife
Vernal Pool Workshop with Tom Tyning
Berkshire Community College 1350 West St., Pittsfield, MAWant to learn more about the migratory frogs and salamanders we've been helping across roads and their unique habitats? Join BEAT and Professor Tom Tyning — an expert on amphibians and reptiles and an authority on New England's natural history…
Spring Woods and Wildlife Talk
OnlineSpring is here! What is happening in your woods? What things should we be looking for and thinking about? Join VT Coverts as we host Chittenden County Forester Ethan Tapper and Coverts Cooperator and Audubon Biologist Steve Hagenbuch for a…
Wild About Wild Habitat with Sue Morse
OnlineWhen it comes to wildlife, renowned photographer and wildlife researcher Sue Morse puts it this way: "If you don't build it, they will come." In other words, wild animals need intact, interconnected, wild habitat to survive and thrive. Join Sue…
City Nature Challenge
OnlinePlease join us in western Massachusetts April 28th through May 1st as we participate in the worldwide City Nature Challenge, a global bioblitz aimed at connecting people with the biodiversity all around them! Now in its eighth year, the City Nature Challenge has grown…
Vernal Pool Plunge Webinar
OnlineJoin the Hilltown Land Trust in learning about the certification process and ecology of vernal pools with naturalist Charely Eiseman. Vernal pools are fragile ecosystems. In order to protect them, Massachusetts has a state certification that restricts certain kinds of…
Vernal Pool Plunge Walk
Discover the ephemeral wonder of vernal pools with Hilltown Land Trust and naturalist Nellie Wilson! Join us for a walk in the woods where we’ll explore the rich biodiversity within vernal pools. From fairy shrimp to salamanders, these temporary habitats…
Owls and the Full Moon at Dyken Pond
Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center 475 Dyken Pond Rd., Cropseyville, NYGrafton - Join us to meet a live owl followed by a full moon walk on Friday, May 5 from 7pm – 8:30 pm at the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center. Kelly Martin, a wildlife rehabilitator with over 40 years of…
BIPOC Forest Bathing Immersion
These are all BIPOC wilderness trips in the Green Mountains of Vermont, recurring throughout the summer and autumn. Spend 4 days learning the basics of backpacking and camping in a non-competitive space centered around rest and collective accountability. Together we…
All About Beavers
Have you ever wondered what we would do without our semiaquatic rodent friend the beaver? From improving water quality, trapping and storing carbon, to counteracting some of the worst pollution from agriculture and fossil-fuel emissions– the beaver does it all.…
Birding by Ear
Have you ever wondered who is singing those love songs in the tree canopy, discreetly building a nest in your backyard, or scolding potential predators who have ventured too close for comfort? In this workshop we will be attuning our sense of hearing to the…
Wild Earth Sisters Retreat
Leave your cell phone and your to-do list behind and step into a nourishing day in the life of the woods. Join a group of women and circle around a community fire, and let the energy of the group and…
How Do Deer Populations Impact Our Forests?
OnlineForest regrowth requires an abundance of healthy saplings from desirable, native trees to replace the older generations of trees. This regeneration is often stunted by the overabundance of white-tailed deer who browse on these trees often so much that it…
Pondering Ponds
Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center 475 Dyken Pond Rd., Cropseyville, NYEver wonder what lives in ponds? Join Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center to find out just what is lurking at the bottom of these essential bodies of water and why they are so important. Catch and release frogs, salamanders, insects,…
BIPOC Forest Bathing Immersion
These are all BIPOC wilderness trips in the Green Mountains of Vermont, recurring throughout the summer and autumn. Spend 4 days learning the basics of backpacking and camping in a non-competitive space centered around rest and collective accountability. Together we…
Summer Track & Sign Day
The summer season for wildlife tracking can take us to many different types of habitats, including along river banks, across sand plains and even along silt-covered roads of agricultural fields or puddle-laden dirt roads. These are places we will consider in our quest to…
Follow the Forest Volunteer Training
OnlineJoin Berkshire Natural Resources Council for this online event with Julia Rogers, Senior Land Protection Manager at the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA). Julia will discuss the background and importance of the Follow the Forest initiative and how the public can…
Lake Mansfield Family Adventure Program: Scaled, Tailed and Bulging Eye Friends with Tom Tyning
Lake Mansfield Great BarringtonJoin Great Barrington Land Conservancy (GBLC), Professor Tom Tyning, and Taylor Staubach of Berkshire Family Hikes at Lake Mansfield for an adventurous family program that's hands-on! Families will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with creatures that…
Berkshire Green Drinks: Massachusetts Wild Trout Fisheries with Adam Kautza of MassWildlife (hybrid event)
The Stationery Factory 63 Flansburg Avenue, Dalton, MAJoin us at our August Berkshire Green Drinks event with Adam Kautza, the Coldwater Fisheries Project Leader for MassWildlife. After giving some background on the wild trout found here in Massachusetts, Adam will discuss the status and distribution of the…
BIPOC Forest Bathing Immersion
These are all BIPOC wilderness trips in the Green Mountains of Vermont, recurring throughout the summer and autumn. Spend 4 days learning the basics of backpacking and camping in a non-competitive space centered around rest and collective accountability. Together we…
Live Animal Program: Massachusetts Wildlife
Great Falls Discovery Center 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MAPut a face to the challenges wildlife must rise to meet. The Southern Vermont Natural History Museum presents a live animal program featuring wildlife of the Connecticut River Watershed. You may see snakes, birds, mammals, and reptiles! Includes a presentation…