Learn a bit about the natural history of Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus) as well as the ongoing avian research taking place within Lackawanna State Park in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Robert Smith, Ph.D., professor of biology at The University of Scranton, … Continue reading →

Our December Program gives club members a chance to share up to 20 of their favorite photographs with fellow club members. Please go through your photographs and select some to share. Only active members are invited to share photos. Photos … Continue reading →

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 →