Intro to Bird Language via Zoom
Join us on Tuesday, April 30, at 7PM for Intro to Bird Language via Zoom in advance of our 5/4 Bird Language program.
Banner image: Hillary Behr with a communal Bird Language map. Photo: Juno Lamb
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.
We’ll be spreading wood chips, as we do regularly, to help stabilize the shore during busy seasons with lots of foot traffic. Many hands make light work!
If you love to hike Chocorua, come help keep the trails clear and safe, and meet others who also love this place.
We will investigate spring ephemerals and other plants in the diverse habitats of CLC’s Charlotte C. Browne Woods in Chocorua.
Good company and free exercise in the fresh air while helping protect a place we all share, with a view of a beautiful mountain to boot! Chocorua Lake Conservancy is hosting a stewardship morning at the Island and Grove public access areas along Chocorua Lake.
Fresh air, good company, and a chance to pitch in, all with a view of a beautiful mountain! Chocorua Lake Conservancy is hosting a spring cleaning at the Grove & Island public access areas along Chocorua Lake.
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.
Join longtime teacher, storyteller, and outdoor enthusiast Matt Krug for Stories Behind the Stars in Wonalancet, NH, an evening of stories and star gazing.
With our abundance of maple trees, have you ever thought of having your own sugaring operation? Are you not sure how to tell a red from a sugar maple, or what the difference is in sugar production?
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.
Forests for the People is the story of the forest conservation movement that started in New England and led to the establishment of 41 Eastern National Forests, including the White Mountain National Forest.
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.
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!
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!
What does it mean to think like a forester? What does a trained forester see when they walk out into the woods? 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!
Please join The Tamworth History Center, Chocorua Lake Conservancy, the Tamworth Road Study Committee, and Hike with Friends for “Chocorua Byways”with Paul King, longtime surveyor and local history buff, and a member of the Tamworth Road Study Committee.
Come spend a beautiful autumn morning with friends and neighbors tidying the stretch of Route 16 that runs along Chocorua Lake—a gorgeous time of year to visit the lake.
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?
Fresh air! Free workout! Friends! Come spend a morning in a beautiful place stewarding land with us.
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.
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.
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?
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.
If we could slow down to geological time, we would feel the earth rising and falling beneath our feet in a perpetual churn of motion. Alas, our lives are too brief. We can, however, learn to read the landscape to understand the movement that came before our time.
Join CLC Stewardship Director Debra Marnich for a leisurely guided paddle on Chocorua Lake to learn about who lives in and around the lake.
Join us for a walk with UNH Cooperative Extension Natural Resources Field Specialist Wendy Scribner on Chocorua Lake Conservancy conservation land in Chocorua, where we will talk about how our forests sequester and store carbon.
Please join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy live via Zoom for “Forest Management and Carbon” with UNH Cooperative Extension Natural Resources Field Specialist Wendy Scribner.
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?
Fresh air! Free workout! Friends! Come spend a morning in a beautiful place stewarding land with us.
Like every pond and lake, Chocorua Lake is home to myriad species of flora and fauna. Come learn who lives here!
Join us for an exploration of the local glacial and bedrock geology of the Clark Reserve in Chocorua with geologist Rick Allmendinger.