Week of Events
Tuesday Treks: Dyken Pond Center
Tuesday Treks: Dyken Pond Center
Tuesday Treks : 12:30pm - 2:30pm Join Len Tremblay on a moderately paced 3 mile hike every Tuesday in November to explore the wilds of Dyken Pond Center. Learn the trail system one at a time with a knowledgeable guide.…
Misunderstood Wildlife: Opossums – Online
Misunderstood Wildlife: Opossums – Online
Sponsored by Mass Audubon Education November 30, 2021 (Tuesday) 7:00-8:00pm Location: Online Instructor: Tia Pinney - Education Coordinator/Senior Naturalist - Metro West Have you found an overturned trash can in your yard and blamed an opossum? Maybe you've spotted one…
Advocacy Hour: Sierra Club MA Campaign Updates
Advocacy Hour: Sierra Club MA Campaign Updates
Advocacy Hour: Sierra Club MA Campaign Updates Join Sierra Club Massachusetts leaders on Zoom for a campaign update, every Wednesday at 5pm. This is an opportunity to get plugged into our campaigns, learn about timely issues and ongoing projects, and…
Advanced Ecological Design Workshop with Larry Weaner
Advanced Ecological Design Workshop with Larry Weaner
This design workshop will provide concrete, real-world guidance for selecting and arranging native plants in the landscape (gardens and restoration projects), as well as offering the opportunity to employ these techniques through an assignment between the first and second sessions.…
MAPN (Mass Pollinator Network) Monthly Meeting
MAPN (Mass Pollinator Network) Monthly Meeting
MAPN Monthly Meeting: December 1st @ 7 PM Register here! At our next meeting, we will be joined by Peggy MacLeod and Owen Wormer, who will lead a conversation about building public-private partnerships to expand pollinator habitat. Peggy is on the Steering…
Conservation Law Foundation: A Webinar Discussing the Beverage Industry’s Broken Promises
Conservation Law Foundation: A Webinar Discussing the Beverage Industry’s Broken Promises
December 2, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. For decades, the beverage industry made promises to improve bottle and can recycling programs. But it broke those promises. Instead, Big Beverage has done everything in its power to keep our failed recycling systems in place and…
Local Insects and Spiders in Winter — Online
Local Insects and Spiders in Winter — Online
Thursday, December 2 @ 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Monarch butterflies may have all flown to Mexico for the winter, but what are all the other insects and spiders up to now? Join Northfield entomologist Charley Eiseman for a virtual tour of…
Inside the Lodge: The Unknown World of Beavers- Online
Inside the Lodge: The Unknown World of Beavers- Online
Sponsored by Mass Audubon Education December 2, 2021 (Thursday) 7:00-8:30pm Location: Online Instructor: Scott Santino - Education Manager and Teacher Naturalist, Ipswich River Few animals can change entire landscapes like beavers can. The American Beaver is an incredible wetland engineer…
Ecological Plant Conference
Ecological Plant Conference
Friday, December 3 @ 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. If you haven't yet enjoyed one of ELA's fall conferences, you have one more chance! Join us for the 6th annual Ecological Plant Conference as we delve into five plant-centric topics to educate,…
Volunteer w/ BEAT: Cut & Pull Invasive Hardy Kiwi
Volunteer w/ BEAT: Cut & Pull Invasive Hardy Kiwi
Every Friday from 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Please consider joining us to help cut invasive hardy kiwi vines at Burbank Park in Pittsfield. Anyone and everyone is welcome regardless of age or experience. However, you must be able to walk on a…
Log Lunch Lectures: The Trust for Public Land, “Community Centered Land Conservation”
Log Lunch Lectures: The Trust for Public Land, “Community Centered Land Conservation”
Log Lunch : 12:00pm – 1:00pm This week's Log Lunch will be focused on "Community Centered Land Conservation." Join Betsy McGean, a 1980 graduate of Williams College, to talk about her work with The Trust for Public Land. What is…
HVA’s Annual Meeting: “Henri and Ida: Siblings of Changing Climate”
HVA’s Annual Meeting: “Henri and Ida: Siblings of Changing Climate”
December 3, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Join Housatonic Valley association for their annual meeting featuring David Vallee, the Hydrologist-in-Charge of the National Weather Service’s Northeast River Forecast Center. They will also be celebrating watershed heroes, Bob Valentine and Xinyi Shen. RSVP…