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March 2019
Pollinator Pathway All Town Partner Meeting hosted by Grace Farms – SOLD OUT
Join members of the Pollinator Pathway community for an afternoon of inspiration and dialogue to propel outreach efforts in your town forward. Dr. Kimberly Stoner of the CT Agricultural Experiment Station will speak about the science of pollinators and their habitat needs. Pathway experts will be on hand to share information about the tools, communication techniques, and corporate engagement best practices that were used in the launch towns. This event is at full capacity. Email Mary Ellen Lemay with questions.
Find out more »WORKSHOP: eBird as a Tool for Conservation Organizations
RSVP Required. Birds tell us about habitat. Knowing what birds are seen on a property can help us track habitat quality and inform land management practices. eBird is the world’s largest citizen science project tracking biodiversity. Join Anne Swaim, Executive Director of the Saw Mill River Audubon for a hands-on workshop where participants will discover how to use eBird as a tool for monitoring, decision support, and engaging community members. This workshop will also cover use of Cornell's Merlin Bird…
Find out more »Game of Logging Chainsaw Safety Course: Level 1
RSVP Required. This dynamic, hands-on chainsaw safety course will give participants the skills they need to fell trees with confidence, whether for hazard mitigation or habitat management. NOTE: *This price reflects the use of WLT’s Cornell eBird grant to partially subsidize the per/person cost. Participants must bring the following items: Hardhat, chainsaw, and chaps (if available). Please bring your own lunch.
Find out more »H2H March All Partner Meeting
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Find out more »May 2019
Early Successional Habitat Management Workshop
RSVP Required. This field-based workshop will use an ongoing multiyear habitat project to review and discuss aspects of early successional habitat management including invasives, natives, deer, sunlight, and pruning, all for the goal of supporting a diversity of bird species. NOTE: *Limited parking, so we’ll have to get creative. Stay tuned for details.
Find out more »Meadow Management Workshop
RSVP Required. This field-based workshop will use an ongoing multiyear habitat project to review and discuss aspects of meadow management, introducing H2H partners to best practices and methods that can be implemented on their own lands, and spread to the landowners with whom they work.
Find out more »H2H Web Map Training Workshop (For H2H Signed-Partners Only)
Join us for an interactive and fun evening workshop led by Brian Hall, a GIS Research Assistant at Harvard Forest, Harvard University. H2H Partners will learn to be comfortable using the web map as a conservation and learning tool. To do this, we will learn about the tool itself, discuss some of the datasets that are available in it, review how we generated our focus areas, and most importantly, we will play with the web map with a few fun, hands-on…
Find out more »June 2019
H2H Grant and Collaborative Fundraising Summit (For H2H Signed-Partners Only)
Know of a grant or source of funding that seems a bit out of reach for your organization? Are you looking for project fundraising partners? Or, maybe you're just interested in learning more about how we can work together in H2H to access more resources for more partners. Join us for what will hopefully be the first of several grant and collaborative fundraising summits. RSVP by emailing Kristen O'Hara at kristen@westchesterlandtrust.org.
Find out more »September 2019
eBird Walk and Talk
Discover a new world of eBirding - 9:00 am eBird Workshop followed by 10:30 am Bird Walk. 9:00 am - Free Workshop: How to use eBird Pound Ridge Library 271 Westchester Ave Pound Ridge, New York Presenter: Anne Swaim, Executive Director, Saw Mill River Audubon 10:30 am - Bird Walk at Henry Morgenthau Preserve ($5 donation/person) 80 Pound Ridge Road (Route 172) Pound Ridge, New York Led by Anne Swaim and Tait Johansson, Naturalist, Bedford Audubon Co-Sponsored by the Henry Morgenthau…
Find out more »October 2019
Global Warming Seminar – Confronting the Challenge
Global warming is no longer a theoretical process, and its impact - on population growth, public health, food production, and, in fact, every aspect of our lives - is significant. Please join us as we explore the history and current status of global warming, and ways to survive on our increasingly hotter plant. Click here to learn more or to register. Open to all interested members of the public.
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