Sowing seeds to save societies
Thursday, Oct. 26: Learn about Seedshed’s Native American Seed Sanctuary in Hurley, where Native American varieties of corn, beans, squash and sunflowers are being cultivated.
Nature
Livestreamed Q&A with Al Gore at SUNY-New Paltz
Thursday, Oct. 26: The tireless environmental crusader will answer students’ questions at screenings of An Inconvenient Sequel.
Fungus among us: Mushroom walk and talk this week in Mt. Tremper and Kingston
Sunday & Tuesday, Oct. 22 & 24: Learn how to identify mushrooms, about their healthful and culinary properties, and the weird and wild fungus kingdom, a form of life neither plant nor animal.
Painless peeping: View autumn’s glory from the Ashokan Reservoir Trail
You can’t beat the Ashokan Reservoir trail for an easy in-and-out affording stunning autumnal panoramas. If you can time it to catch the sun setting behind the Catskills, all the better.
To hunt, or not to hunt? Panel debates ethics of deer population control
Hunting is the most efficient and effective way to reduce the deer population, but some object on ethical grounds.
Wallkill River Festival highlight water pollution
Did you know people used to swim in the Wallkill? To raise awareness of the environmental issues plaguing the river and to get more people involved in their work to clean it up, the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance is hosting the inaugural Wallkill River Festival this Saturday, October 7 from 2-6 p.m. at New Paltz Gardens for Nutrition.
Catskills Lark in the Park
Saturday, September 30- Monday, October 9: During the Lark’s ten days, there will be a variety of outdoor workshops teaching everything from fly-fishing to nature photography to kayaking and educational walks on mushrooms and local history.
Clouds: Things you never knew
Very thin cirrus can be invisible, and here is where their magic can truly shine. Occasionally at this time of year, when the Sun is lowish but not extremely low, look overhead and you may see an upside-down rainbow called a circumzenithal arc.
A rookie kayaker explores the Esopus Bend Preserve
While we all peered at the maps that had been provide, the old hands knew the trails as though they were a part of themselves.
Kids’ Almanac: Sept. 21-28
Kites over the Hudson at Washington’s HQ, Family Day at the Dorsky Museum, Science on the River at Norrie Point, Seine and sing at Esopus Meadows, Hobo Night with Bindlestick Bill at Hyde Park Train Museum and Erica’s Stage IV breast cancer journey