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.
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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.
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.
Mid-Hudson Valley Gem & Mineral Society show in Poughkeepsie
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16-17: The Mid-Hudson Valley Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. will be hosting its 48th annual Gem, Mineral, Fossil & Jewelry Show & Sale at Gold’s Gym in Poughkeepsie.
Black vultures, formerly a southern bird, now a regular sight in the Hudson Valley
Sociable and mischievous, and possibly intelligent, they’re quite a bit different from the stoic turkey vulture, whose great sense of smell they sometimes exploit to lead them to food.
Join BioBlitz 2017 at Woodstock’s Thorn Preserve this weekend
Friday-Saturday, July 28-29: Citizen scientists of all ages (no special training or experience necessary) will be teamed with scientists and expert naturalists to study the wildlife, plants and biodiversity at the Catskill Center’s Thorn Preserve. Bring your smartphone and put it to use cataloguing and photographing the park’s flora and fauna.
9 things to know about the black vulture
Black vultures are the most populous vulture in the Western Hemisphere, but they’re relatively new to New York State. Here are some things to keep in mind next time you see a dark shape circling above.
It’s high season for Lyme in the Hudson Valley
Did you know deer are actually not the key host for the ticks that cause Lyme? And that most infections come from ticks in the nymph stage, when they’re no larger than a poppy seed?