Big Trees of Northern New England with Author Kevin Martin
2024-09-04 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | NH
Join us for a compelling and colossal discussion of big trees with author, wooden boat builder, and Epping resident Kevin Martin.
Kevin will discuss his book “Big Trees of Northern New England” and will bring you through the woods and into some cities in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts to find these impressive living parts of our landscape. The discussion will highlight important trees in the area and in the state while connecting people, history and wildlife to the trees. Kevin has over 40 years of experience working with wood and has served on the Epping Conservation Commission, was chair of the Lamprey River Advisory Committee, and former State Coordinator for the NH Big Tree Program.

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Little SELTies Storytime - Early Fall Session
2024-09-19 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We welcome our Little SELTies to join us for a morning of nature stories, songs, and activities in the Pratt Family Community Room at the Mathey Center at Burley Farms. Led by SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, we will start our morning inside the community room with story time activities, then head outside for a short hike in the forest. This program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. Storytimes for the early fall session will run on 9/19 and 9/26. Please sign up for the whole series, even if you cannot make every date.

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Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire with Author Marianne O'Connor *WAITLIST*
2024-10-23 17:30 - 18:45 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Thank you for your interest in this SELT event. Unfortunately, this program and waitlist are at capacity.
Join author Marianne O’Connor in what’s sure to be a spooky evening of ghost stories on and around the trails of New Hampshire.
Is there a Sasquatch in the Ossipee Mountains? Are there spirits on Mount Washington? Marianne will highlight some of the more interesting and unusual ghost stories from the state including the ghost story of Nancy Mountain in Crawford Notch to the Old Witch of East Hampton. The program is an hour-long PowerPoint presentation with spooky sound effects and ghostly illusions that is sure to put you in a seasonal mood.
“Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire” won the 2023 Halloween Book Festival Award in nonfiction.
This program is not recommended for young children.
Marianne O’Connor is the author of Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire; she’s hiked all over New Hampshire to collect “haunted hikes” on her adventures. Marianne is a content producer for New “Hampshire Magazine” and “Memories of Maine Magazine” and has appeared on WMUR New Hampshire Chronicle, and NHTV’s “Windows to the Wild”. She is a retired New Hampshire educator, living in Maine.

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Registration required: Event and waitlist are at capacity.

Little SELTies Storytime - Late Fall 2024 Session 1
2024-11-07 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We welcome our Little SELTies to join us for a morning of nature stories, songs, and activities in the Pratt Family Community Room at the Mathey Center at Burley Farms. Led by SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, we will start our morning inside the community room with story time activities, then head outside for a short hike in the forest. This program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. Storytimes for the late fall session will run on 11/7, 11/21, and 12/5. Due to a changes with our registration software, you will need to register separately for each date.

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Please note, this link will take you to our new registration form.

Trout Talk with Trout Unlimited
2024-11-13 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join Trout Unlimited Great Bay Chapter President Paul Spendley for an engaging talk all about Trout Unlimited (TU), TUNH, and TU Great Bay. Specific discussion will include cold water fishery preservation, cold water monitoring (temperature, water sampling), trout in the classroom, and TU Great Bay’s involvement with SELT thus far and possible future opportunities. In addition to the talk and presentation, there will be display materials to peruse and learn even more about TU.
This is a special opportunity to learn more about a unique partner engaged in conservation efforts in Strafford and Rockingham counties.

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Little SELTies Storytime - Late Fall 2024 Session 2
2024-11-21 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States

Cold Weather Photography and Photography of Birds in Winter with Tony Baldasaro
2024-12-04 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join regionally-renowned bird photographer Tony Baldasaro for an evening of learning more about cold weather photography, focusing on photographing birds in winter. Tony, of TB3 Photography, has been a photographer for over 20 years. He is most passionate about wild bird photography and he will share his tips for not only photographing birds, but also finding them in either snowy or non-snowy winter conditions. In addition to photography, Tony has been a teacher and school administrator for more than 25 years. Merging his two passions, photography and education, has given him the opportunity to do what he loves the most, teach and create. We hope you can join us for a creative evening of learning about wild bird photography in colder weather.

Registration required: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
More information about TB3 Photography can be found at www.tb3photography.com

Little SELTies Storytime - Late Fall 2024 Session 3
2024-12-05 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States

Talon Tuesday with Tailwinds
2024-12-17 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us for a family-friendly evening of Talons with Tailwinds. You will meet Tailwinds’ raptors up close while learning about their ability to thrive in their natural habitat! Learn about their habitat, conservation needs, and what we can do to co-exist with these impressive neighbors. This program will give you a chance to meet a live owl, hawk, and vulture.

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More information about Tailwinds Raptor Education & Conservation can be found at tailwinds.live

52 With A View with Author Ken MacGray
2025-01-08 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us to kick off our 2025 programming with a 52 With A View presentation by author Ken MacGray.
This presentation will be a casual and informal discussion about the New Hampshire 52 With A View Guide and Hiking List. Learn about what makes the hikes on this list so enjoyable, its formation and history, and how the first comprehensive guidebook to the 52 can get you started on this hiking quest!
Ken MacGray is a freelance writer and guidebook author. He’s worked on New Hampshire’s 52 With A View – A Hiker’s Guide (2nd Edition), AMC’s Southern New Hampshire Trail Guide (5th Edition), and the 31st Edition of the White Mountain Guide, also for AMC. He’s currently in the midst of the 6th Edition of AMC’s Southern New Hampshire Trail Guide, which will be published in 2025. He lives in southern New Hampshire and can usually be found wandering throughout the state’s forests.

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More information about Ken MacGray can be found at kenmacgray.org

Nature & Outdoor-Themed Board Game Night with Diversions
2025-02-11 17:30 - 19:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join Diversions’ Laura Paquet, SELT’s Database and Gift Entry Manager Jean Standring, and SELT’s Events and Outreach Specialist Derrick Trent for a fun evening of nature and wildlife board games. Games may include Wingspan, Parks, Trails, Trekking the National Parks, Forest Shuffle, Canopy, Harmonies, and Cascadia. You do not need to have prior knowledge/experience of any of these games. This event is intended for teens and adults. Space is limited, so do move your meeple onto register for this unique opportunity.

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More information about Diversions can be found at diversionsgames.com

Valentine’s Day Yoga Hike at SELT
2025-02-14 11:00 - 13:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join Super SELTies Danele Smith and Sue Mayotte for a winter hike around Burley Farms and then a yoga session at the Mathey Center in the Pratt Community Room. This program is for adults with some hiking and/or yoga experience. Whether this is your first time at the Mathey Center or if you’ve been here many times, it will be a unique way to experience it.

Difficulty: Moderate
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

The Lions of Winter with Author Ty Gagne
2025-03-12 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us for an informative and entertaining evening with author and speaker Ty Gagne as he discusses his new book The Lions of Winter.
On January 25, 1982, during a four-day search for two missing ice climbers on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington in extreme weather conditions, Albert Dow, a member of the all-volunteer Mountain Rescue Service, became the first—and so far the only— member of a backcountry search and rescue team to be killed in the line of duty in the White Mountains. He was caught in an avalanche in terrain previously thought to present no risk. His teammate, Michael Hartrich, was injured in the accident.
In The Lions of Winter, author Ty Gagne describes the ordeal of the missing climbers, the selflessness and courage of the dedicated rescuers, the tragic circumstances surrounding the avalanche, and the heartbreak of the family, friends, and teammates of the fallen rescuer. Gagne also chronicles how this grueling event became a landmark of White Mountain history, ushering in a new era in the search and rescue community of New Hampshire.

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Let's Go Eco: Solar, Heat Pumps, and the All-Electric Home with ReVision Energy
2025-03-13 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Get your green on! Join us for the first Let’s Go Eco presentation, an in-person series here at SELT all about the ways you can “greenify” your life. This first presentation will be led by ReVision Energy based in Brentwood.
Explore the pathways and benefits of making your home green (and your neighbors green with envy!). Our friends at ReVision Energy have an engaging presentation about the tricks of the green trade: solar, heat pump, EV charging, and energy storage technologies. This presentation will demystify each of those technologies, showing how well they can work together and how they can best work for you!

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Note: SELT does not share any personal information with our presenters.
More about ReVision Energy – can be found at www.revisionenergy.com.

More about the Let’s Go Eco Series Sponsor – Green Wave EV – can be found at www.greenwaveev.com.

Sarah Koff Artist Talk
2025-03-19 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us for an informative and enlightening evening with Exeter-based woodcut printmaker Sarah Koff as she discusses the concept of invisibility as related to environmental activism/education, through the lens of art.
People care more about what they see in front of them. Unfortunately, most of the problems plaguing the environment (and, in turn, our health) today are invisible to the naked eye, from microscopic nematodes to air particulates. How can we as environmentalists make the invisible visible? As a printmaker, Sarah plays with layers of graphics and ink transparency to bring visibility to such destructive elements as pfas, microplastics, pesticides, nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and more.
Sarah is a printmaker, gardener, and environmentalist. She creates her woodcuts in the woods of New Hampshire to tell nature’s stories. Stories from her own backyard, like the slow creep of the hemlock woolly adelgid, to such global hotspots as the coral reefs. But mostly she sticks to her own backyard, because that is where she first discovered her deep passion for the natural world — that passion that has driven her career and now motivates her to make. A former environmental educator with a masters’ degree in ecological design, she has always been intrigued by the connection between humans and the natural world. As her art practice has grown, so too has her aspiration to inspire people to become as invested in protecting the natural world as she has. And from her woodcut studio, she strives to do just that, from telling stories with each print, to pledging a percentage of sales to hard-working conservation organizations, including SELT.

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More about Sarah and her work can be found at https://sarahkoffstudio.com/

Let's Go Eco - Powered by Green Wave EV
2025-03-25 17:30 - 19:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
RESCHEDULE DATE – This event was originally scheduled for February 13th, but was postponed due to weather.
Get your green on! Join us for the second Let’s Go Eco presentation, an in-person series here at SELT all about the ways you can “greenify” your life. This lively presentation will be led by Green Wave Electric Vehicles based in North Hampton offering you a “peek under the hood” of the world of EV cars.
During this presentation, Green Wave will educate on the benefits of EVs, debunk EV myths, demonstrate accessibility, encourage action, and inspire the vision of a green future. There will be EVs from Green Wave for you to see and possibly test drive along with team members from Green Wave doing vehicle impact reports comparing your current vehicle to an EV.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Note: SELT does not share any personal information with our presenters.
More about Green Wave EV can be found at greenwaveev.com.

Little SELTies Storytime - Early Spring 2025 (Session 1 of 2)
2025-03-27 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We welcome our Little SELTies to join us for a morning of nature stories, songs, and activities in the Pratt Family Community Room at the Mathey Center at Burley Farms. Led by SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, we will start our morning inside the community room with story time activities, then head outside for a short hike in the forest. This program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. The early spring sessions of Little SELTies Storytime will run on Thursday, March 27 and Thursday, April 3.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Little SELTies Storytime - Early Spring 2025 (Session 2 of 2)
2025-04-03 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States

Let’s Go Eco | Mr. Fox's Compost & Soil(s) Seacoast Session
2025-04-03 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Get your green on – round 3! Join us for the third and final Let’s Go Eco presentation, an in-person series here at SELT all about the ways you can “greenify” your life. This third presentation will be led by Mr. Fox Composting based in York, ME.
Please come listen in and ask questions about your composting curiosities. Mr. Fox has a thriving residential and commercial business here on the seacoast providing a way for folks to divert food from the landfills…but why is that a good idea? Maybe you ponder that question? If so, Mr. Fox is happy to talk about those benefits with you. Any questions about composting in general, come ask! There are no silly questions when it comes to getting back to the basics to help Mother Earth.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Note: SELT does not share any personal information with our presenters.
More about Mr. Fox – can be found at mrfoxcomposting.com.

More about the Let’s Go Eco Series Sponsor – Green Wave EV – can be found at www.greenwaveev.com.

Snakes of New Hampshire with NH Fish & Game Wildlife Biologist Brendan Clifford
2025-04-09 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us for an exciting discussion of snakes in New Hampshire with NH Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Brendan Clifford. Brendan will discuss the 11 species that are native to New Hampshire with a focus on the more imperiled species (timber rattlesnake, eastern hognose snake, northern black racer, smooth green snake, and ribbon snake), their habitat needs and priority landscapes.
Brendan will have a snake along with him for you meet and learn more about in person.
This event is open to all ages.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Lichen It or Not: The Wonders of Symbiosis! with Nature Columnist Susan Pike
2025-04-16 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join Nature Columnist, National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions Naturalist, Dover High School Science Teacher, and Great Works Regional Land Trust (GWRLT) Board Member Sue Pike for a talk about the biology and basics of identifying common lichens. Lichens are a complex and beautiful life form that grow almost everywhere but are often overlooked and misunderstood. Not a plant and not a fungus, they are composed of, at the minimum, two completely separate organisms-a fungus and an algae. They grow in your backyard, in the woods, in the fields. You’ll also find them in some of Earth’s most extreme places: mountaintops, sea-splashed cliffs, and gravestones. If you do any hiking in the White Mountains, you’ll find lichens well above treeline growing on the stunted trees that are continually blasted by winter winds, frozen into eerie shapes, coated with rime ice, subjected to temperatures well below zero degrees. You’ll also find them along the coast, clinging to salt spray-soaked pine trees, bearding cedars and other evergreens in bogs and swamps. They have even survived space! How do they do this? What exactly are they? Are they easy to identify? Come find out.

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Bird Photography Primer Presentation with Tony Baldasaro
2025-05-05 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join regionally renowned bird photographer Tony Baldasaro for an evening of learning more about birds and how best to photograph them. Tony, of TB3 Photography, has been a photographer for over 20 years. He is most passionate about wild bird photography and he will share his tips for not only photographing birds, but also finding them, especially during migration season. In addition to photography, Tony has been a teacher and school administrator for 30 years. Merging his two passions, photography and education, has given him the opportunity to do what he loves the most, teach and create. We hope you can join us for a creative evening of learning about wild bird photography!
This is a primer for the Bird Photography Field Trip that Tony will be leading later in the week on May 10th. To learn more about Tony and his photography, visit his website at tb3photography.com or find him on Instagram @tb3_photo.

Registration required: CLICK HERE

Helping New Hampshire's Turtles
2025-05-07 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us to learn about the fascinating and inspiring work of NH Turtle Rescue, the small nonprofit organization based just down Route 125 from SELT in Nottingham and operated by Dallas Huggins and Drew Stevens, licensed wildlife rehabilitators in the state of New Hampshire. They work closely with their mentor, Chris Bogard, who has been rehabilitating turtles for over 20 years.
NH Turtle Rescue’s mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, release, and preserve native turtle species through individualized care, public education, outreach, and scientific research in support of imperiled populations of wild New Hampshire turtles.
In our early planning, Drew mentioned the following: “I think our missions dovetail together in a very compelling way: we are the reactive side of turtle conservation in that we deal primarily with the consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation, and SELT is the proactive side of turtle conservation by providing a means to protect important habitat and its wildlife before those wild animals become imperiled. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but in this case, there is no true cure, so protecting habitat is truly the only way to guarantee some type of future for our native turtle species in the long-term.”
They will have some turtle ambassadors with them to meet during the talk as well. 🐢🐢🐢

This event is open to all ages.
Registration required: CLICK HERE

More about New Hampshire Turtle Rescue can be found at nhturtlerescue.org

Little SELTies Storytime - Late Spring 2025 (Session 1 of 3)
2025-05-08 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We welcome our Little SELTies to join us for a morning of nature stories, songs, and activities in the Pratt Family Community Room at the Mathey Center at Burley Farms. Led by SELT’s Education Program Manager, Lizzy Franceschini, we will start our morning inside the community room with story time activities, then head outside for a short hike in the forest. This program is designed for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. The late spring sessions of Little SELTies Storytime will run on the following Thursdays – May 8, May 22, and June 5.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Little SELTies Storytime - Late Spring 2025 (Session 2 of 3)
2025-05-22 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States

Vulture Culture with Tailwinds
2025-05-28 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
We are excited to welcome back Tailwinds for a fun, informative family-friendly evening. Learn about the undervalued, underestimated, and misunderstood Turkey Vulture. Meet education team member Greta – a curious and social Turkey Vulture up close and in person. Learn to admire and respect one of the most impressive birds in our ecosystem. We might even see some vultures out in the wild at Burley Farms!

Registration required: CLICK HERE
Please visit tailwinds.live for more information about Tailwinds Raptor Education & Conservation.

Little SELTies Storytime - Late Spring 2025 (Session 3 of 3)
2025-06-05 10:00 - 12:00 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States

Raptors Rule! with Tailwinds
2025-07-09 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Discover the fascinating world of raptors. Tailwinds: Raptor Education and Conservation will introduce you to three live raptor ambassadors. You’ll enjoy a talk about their unique characteristics, adaptations, and importance to our ecosystem. Learn how we can help them thrive.
More information about Tailwinds: Raptor Education and Conservation can be found at https://tailwinds.live/

Registration Required: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

An Introduction to the New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife
2025-08-13 17:30 - 18:30 | The Nan and George Mathey Center for People and Nature at Burley Farms, 247 North River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
In recent decades, increased human-wildlife interactions have led to an increased need for wildlife rehabilitation and veterinary care in New Hampshire and beyond. At the same time, many NH-licensed wildlife rehabilitators have retired, and on-the-job wildlife training for veterinarians is decreasing as veterinary colleges outsource student wildlife training to private practitioners. Join Dr. Michael Dutton and Helen Dutton to learn about their plans for a new NH Veterinary Center for Wildlife, which aims to address these needs by providing a centralized site for veterinary care for injured wildlife in New Hampshire; on-site rehabilitation to minimize the stresses of transport; and training programs for wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and veterinary students and staff.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE
More information about the New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife can be found at nhwildlifecare.org
