Banner image: Hillary Behr with a communal Bird Language map. Photo: Juno Lamb
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.
Join us for an outdoor workshop with naturalists and outdoor educators Hillary Behr and Kyle Ball in Tamworth Village.
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!
Shelter, warmth, tools, and even food: wood provides so many things to humans and wildlife!
With the diminishment of certain kinds of habitat, including convenient holes in old-growth trees, cavity nesting birds may have a harder time finding places to nest. We can help!
Join us for Map Your World with naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr, an outdoor program on reading and making maps for 6- to 12-year-old kids and their caregivers.
In late summer, insects are everywhere! Join us for All About Insects—for kids! with naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr, an exploration in the field for 3- to 9-year-olds and their caregivers.
With the diminishment of certain kinds of habitat, including convenient holes in old-growth trees, some birds may have a harder time finding places to nest. We can help!
Educator and insect enthusiast Linda Graetz will share her knowledge about the basics of how to identify flies—patience, close observation and describing what you see are the most important skills you’ll need.
Stay that hand before you swat one of these two-winged wonders! We humans harbor too many fears and misconceptions about our friends the flies. Sure, some of them can cause trouble, but can you think of one creature on earth that can’t?
Want to take part in an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to valuable wildlife data collection?
What are those birds doing? Why are they making that sound? Come learn more with naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr.
”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.
In New Hampshire, only four percent of land is early successional habitat. Come learn why early successional habitat is so important for wildlife and pollinator species!
While many plants and a few animals are dormant in winter, the winter woods and fields are full of signs of life and activity.
Beneath our feet lies the Ossipee Aquifer, a gorgeous stratified drift aquifer that supplies most of the drinking water in this region. Can you picture it? Come help everyone picture it!
With cold winters and long dark nights comes the opportunity to experience the unique magic of being outdoors in the brightness of a full moon on snow.
Food and fire, nature and art, indoors and outdoors, community connections and fun!
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.
Please join the Cook Memorial Library, the Chocorua Lake Conservancy, and the Yeoman’s Fund for the Arts in honoring the winter solstice and these long dark nights with lantern making, community, cookies, and a lantern-lit evergreen spiral walk.
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!
Shelter, warmth, tools, and even food: wood provides so many things to humans and wildlife! Join us for “The Wonders of Woods: Fire, Forts, and Forest Ecology,” an outdoor workshop for kids 3- to 8-years old with a caregiver, led by naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr.
The area around Chocorua Lake provides a widely diverse and rich fungal habitat.
Join us for an outdoor workshop with naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr. Nature Journaling can help you notice and capture the details of what is happening in nature.
What are those birds doing? Why are they making that sound? Join naturalist and outdoor educator Hillary Behr at the CLC's Charlotte C. Browne Woods to find out!
The area around Chocorua Lake provides a widely diverse and rich fungal habitat. Ever wonder about the hundreds of miles of mycelium beneath our feet, of which we see only the fruiting bodies? Or which mushrooms are poisonous or edible?
On this lepidoptera walk, educator and insect enthusiast Linda Graetz will share her knowledge about how to identify butterflies and moths—patience, close observation and describing what you see are the most important skills you’ll need.
Worldwide, there are an estimated 20,000 species of butterflies and 165,000 species of moths. On travels here in New England and in Vietnam, teacher/naturalist Linda Graetz has photographed hundreds of them.
Learn about the importance of community science and long-term monitoring of our lakes and rivers, and how you can get involved, whatever body of water you live on or near.
With cold winters and long dark nights comes the opportunity to experience the unique magic of being outdoors in the brightness of a full moon on snow.
This time of year we humans bundle up in coats and hats, scarves and mittens, maybe even snow pants! What do the other animals in our neighborhood do to stay warm all winter?
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy via Zoom for a 2-hour participatory workshop with Maine-Wabanaki REACH.
