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Owl Prowl at The Preserve at Chocorua
Mar
26
7:00 PM19:00

Owl Prowl at The Preserve at Chocorua

Join us for an evening Owl Prowl with CLC Stewardship Director Debra Marnich. We’ll take a walk from The Preserve at Chocorua, following their monthly Community Soup Night benefit, listening and calling for owls and experiencing the world of nocturnal animals by the light of a near full moon.

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Woodpiles for Wildlife Stewardship Workshop
May
1
10:00 AM10:00

Woodpiles for Wildlife Stewardship Workshop

  • Charlotte C. Browne Woods, Chocorua Lake Conservancy (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Lend a hand creating wood and brush piles for wildlife with recently-cut early successional habitat saplings, and learn about the benefits of brush piles, which provide habitat, cover, and food for many types of wildlife and insects. We will also be clipping small stumps of saplings the mower leaves behind. 

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Patterns in the Snow: Wildlife Tracking for All Ages
Jan
20
10:30 AM10:30

Patterns in the Snow: Wildlife Tracking for All Ages

  • Woodhouse Reserve, Chocorua Lake (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The beauty of snow is that it provides us with a natural canvas where we can see the pattern of animal tracks, other signs of animal activity, and read a story about the forest in winter.

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Beavers: Essential Ecosystem Engineers
Dec
9
10:00 AM10:00

Beavers: Essential Ecosystem Engineers

What rodent increases biodiversity wherever they spend their time, creates habitat for myriad other species, provides housing for other animals, shelters fish, and offers nesting sites for birds on the “rooftops” of their homes? Come find out!

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Stewardship Morning at Charlotte C. Browne Woods
Sep
20
9:00 AM09:00

Stewardship Morning at Charlotte C. Browne Woods

Only four percent of land in New Hampshire is early successional habitat, open fields, grasslands, and recently cleared forest that provides important habitat for insects, birds, and mammals, and maintaining land for these habitats in an ongoing project.

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Aquatic Plants of Chocorua Lake and the Ossipee River Drainage
Aug
21
7:00 PM19:00

Aquatic Plants of Chocorua Lake and the Ossipee River Drainage

When you take a walk you probably recognize common plants and flowers—dandelion! rose! daylily!—but when you swim or kayak, do you know the names of the plants who live in the water you are enjoying?

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Rescheduled—Vernal Pool Exploration
Apr
29
10:00 AM10:00

Rescheduled—Vernal Pool Exploration

”Vernal” means “in, of, or appropriate to spring.” “Pool” means “a small area of still water, typically one formed naturally.” But put them together and you have a magical temporary wetland without which many species would not be able to breed.

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