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 →

Tom Powell will be the guest speaker for our February meeting. He will discuss how anthropogenic climate change poses multifaceted threats to insect diversity well beyond the intuitive stresses of warmer summer temperatures. We will discuss some of the major … Continue reading →