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Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge with Four Winds Nature Institute - Spring Session 1
2025-04-11 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Birch Ridge Community Forest
Due to the popularity of the Winter Series at Birch Ridge, we will continue these Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge with this Spring Series through mid-June.
Meet us at the parking lot at the end of Birch Hill Road for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by nature-based educators Karly Wilcox and Sara DeSerres from Four Winds Nature Institute. We will offer supervised kid-led adventure and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain, snow, or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still or muddy. The dates of the Spring Session of Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge Community Forest will be 4/11, 4/25, 5/9, 5/23, & 6/13.
This series is intended for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians.

Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

More about Four Winds Nature Institute can be found at www.fwni.org.

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

Teneriffe Mountain Hike with SELT & Moose Mountains Regional Greenways
2025-04-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Teneriffe Mountain Forest
Join SELT and Moose Mountains Regional Greenways for fun early spring hike at Teneriffe Mountain Forest. The hike will include going up ‘The Long Trek’ trail to ‘Panish Picnic Path’ to the peak and back down to ‘The Carlos Amigos Trail’ to ‘Phil’s Way’ and back to the parking area. This length of the hike will be approximately 2.5 miles. This hike is considered strenuous with sections that are steep and eroded. Additionally, conditions may be wet/icy/slippery due to the time of year. 🥾🥾🥾

Difficulty: Strenuous
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

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.

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
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

Webinar: Connect to Protect – Land Protection Status and Trends in New Hampshire’s Coastal Watershed
2025-04-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
In 2021, conservation partners set an ambitious goal of protecting 4,000 acres a year in the 52 towns that make up NH’s coastal watershed. To help meet this goal, we updated a regional conservation plan, rallied funders, technical assistance providers and municipalities, and launched an outreach program called Connect to Protect. So how are we doing? Pete Steckler from the Northeast Conservation Services has been updating data and maps about current conservation lands and will share a status report. Through this update, 271 tracks of conservation/public lands were added across NH’s Coastal Watershed. How does this measure up to our goals?
ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK
Join this webinar to:

Learn or remind yourself about Connect to Protect
See the latest updates on status and trends of land protection for coastal NH
Learn about available resources to support land protection and stewardship
Connect with assistance providers and funders who support communities in this work

This webinar is hosted by the Connect to Protect team, including staff from NH Fish and Game/Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Northeast Conservation Services, Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership, UNH Extension, and NH Sea Grant.

Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge Community Forest (Session 6 of 6)
2025-03-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Birch Ridge Community Forest
Meet us at the parking lot at the end of Birch Hill Road for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by nature-based educator Karly Wilcox from Four Winds Nature Institute. We will offer supervised kid-led exploration and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain, snow, or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still, muddy, or snow covered.
This series is intended for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians.

Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

More about Four Winds Nature Institute can be found at www.fwni.org.

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

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.

Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway: Spring 2025 (Session 1 of 3)
2025-03-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Piscassic Greenway
Meet us at the Piscassic Greenway Gate 2 for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by SELT volunteer Loralise LoDolce. We will offer supervised kid-led exploration and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still, muddy, and/or wet. The Spring Session of Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway will be held on 3/21, 4/18, and 5/16.
This series is intended for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians.

Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

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.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

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

Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge Community Forest (Session 5 of 6)
2025-03-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Birch Ridge Community Forest

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.

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.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge Community Forest (Session 4 of 6)
2025-02-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Birch Ridge Community Forest

Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway: Winter Edition - Session 2
2025-02-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Piscassic Greenway
Meet us at the Piscassic Greenway Gate 2 for a kid-led nature exploration as part of our Forest Friday series. This series will be led by SELT volunteer Loralise LoDolce. We will offer supervised kid-led exploration and unstructured outdoor play for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians. This series will take place rain or shine – be sure to dress appropriately for the weather, you’ll want to be comfortable being still, muddy, or snow covered. Winter Fridays at Piscassic Greenway will be held on 1/31 & 2/21.
This series is intended for kids aged 0-5 and their guardians.

Difficulty: Easy
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

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

Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge Community Forest (Session 3 of 6)
2025-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Birch Ridge Community Forest

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.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
More information about Diversions can be found at diversionsgames.com

Winter Forest Ecology and Identification Walk
2025-02-08 09:00 - 12:00 | Mast Road Natural Area
Join forester Phil Auger for an educational winter walk along the Hedding Spur Trail at Mast Road Natural Area. Along the way, Phil will teach you about winter shrubs and tree identification, forest ecology, and the history of the property. This trip will also include a trip out to the fens.

Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Little SELTie Storytime: Winter 2025 (Session 3 of 3)
2025-02-06 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 winter session will run on 1/16, 1/23 and 2/6.

Difficulty: Easy
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Forest Fridays at Piscassic Greenway: Winter Edition - Session 1
2025-01-31 10:00 - 12:00 | Piscassic Greenway

Cross Country Ski with Seven Rivers at Mast Road Natural Area
2025-01-25 09:00 - 11:00 | Mast Road Natural Area
Seven Rivers Enrichment’s mission is to offer exceptional outdoor enrichment to people of all ages. Join SELT and Seven Rivers Enrichment for an adult-paced cross-country skiing adventure. Whether this is your first time skiing or you are a seasoned skier, adults are invited to join this ski through the Mast Road Natural Area in Epping. Ski rentals will be available through Seven Rivers for $12.00, or you can bring your own skis. This event was originally going to take place on Saturday, January 18th and will now take place on Saturday, January 25th.

Difficulty: Moderate
Registration required: CLICK HERE

Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge Community Forest (Session 2 of 6)
2025-01-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Birch Ridge Community Forest

Little SELTie Storytime: Winter 2025 (Session 2 of 3)
2025-01-23 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

Little SELTie Storytime: Winter 2025 (Session 1 of 3)
2025-01-16 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

Full Moon Snowshoe at Birch Ridge Community Forest
2025-01-13 17:30 - 19:30 | Birch Ridge Community Forest
Get your snowshoes and bundle up, SELT’s Trails and Community Engagement Manager, Yohann Hanley, will be leading a walk under the light of the full moon at Birch Ridge Community Forest in New Durham, NH. Yohann will guide you from the Southridge Trail to Birch Ridge Trail, leaving from the main parking area. We hope to take full advantage of the winter snow, but if there is not enough to snowshoe in, this event will be a winter night hike instead.

Difficulty: Strenuous, geared towards older children-adults with some snowshoeing or winter hiking experience
Registration Required: CLICK HERE

Forest Fridays at Birch Ridge Community Forest (Session 1 of 6)
2025-01-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Birch Ridge Community Forest

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.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
More information about Ken MacGray can be found at kenmacgray.org

5th Annual Winter Solstice Glowstick Hike
2024-12-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Burley Farms, 247 N. River Road, Epping, NH, 03042, United States
Join us at Burley Farms to celebrate the winter solstice with the 5th annual glowstick hike! SELT’s Education Program Manager Lizzy Franceschini will lead a sunset/night hike through the fields and forest of Burley Farms, by the light of our glowsticks. Along the way we will stop for activities to learn about this special time of year and enjoy the excitement of being outside on “the longest night”.
This event is a family-friendly event and open to children of all ages.

Difficulty: Easy
Registration required: https://secure.givelively.org/event/southeast-land-trust-of-new-hampshire/selt-field-trip-donations/5th-annual-winter-solstice-glowstick-hike
