For our February program we welcome back guest speakers Sam Wilson and Margeaux Maerz who will help us explore Northern South America which has the highest biodiversity on the planet - Colombia and Peru are number one and number two … Continue reading →

This talk by Twan Leenders will chronicle his nearly 30 years of working with endangered neotropical amphibians. Catastrophic declines in Central American amphibian populations during the late 1980s and early 1990s, left the region’s herpetofauna decimated. Twan has been working … Continue reading →

The Diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) is the only strictly estuarine turtle in the world. Terrapins have a relative unique ecology and a history of overexploitation. Over the last half century, terrapin populations have declined throughout their range (Cape Cod, MA … Continue reading →

Club member Victor Lamoureux will show us what he’s been finding on his trail cameras. Inexpensive trail cameras (aka game cameras) are widely available. They have become mainstream for some wildlife biology studies, but the everyday naturalist can also use … Continue reading →

Forests Past, Present and Future Almost all of the northeastern forest was cut down for lumber, growing crops, or grazing farm animals when the United States was colonized. Yet, today, we have more forest in the northeast than we did … Continue reading →

Thousands of carefully laid up piles of stones are scattered across the hillsides of southern New York and northern Pennsylvania. They were built by human hands sometime after the glaciers retreated north more than 12,000 years ago. When they were … Continue reading →

California Condors once soared across the continent, but progressive decline of food sources, habitat, and interactions with humans meant that by the 1980s, there were barely two dozen birds alive. Massive efforts to keep the largest of North American birds … Continue reading →

Rick Bunting will be the first guest speaker to welcome us back to in-person meetings. He will share a compilation of photos taken over the past few years that focus on some of the our cavity nesting bird species and … Continue reading →

We’ll take a look at what’s going on with our trees - in the recent past and today - and what the future might hold. Environmental and ecological changes are accelerating, and trees are a sort of visible canary-in-the-coal-mine indicator … Continue reading →

Linda Spielman will be the guest speaker for our January meeting. She will discuss techniques for finding and identifying mammal tracks. Linda has been an environmental educator and student of animal tracking for over twenty-five years. She has studied tracking … Continue reading →