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  • BEE MINE Family Workshop

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    Timberlane Middle School 51 S Timberlane Drive, Pennington, NJ, United States

    Join us in restoring the pollinator population by building your own bee house! Materials will all be up-cycled thanks to Wildflowers Inn Restaurant for donating their used straws. Recommended for children 5 and up. Must be accompanied by an adult. Suggested donation $20 for child/adult pairing (or add a second child for an additional fee)(limited to...

    $20 – $30

  • Great Backyard Bird Count

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    Thompson Preserve 95 Pennington-Hopewell Road, Hopewell, NJ, United States

    Please join Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space on Sunday, February 16 at 9AM for the Great Backyard Bird Count at the Thompson Preserve on Route 654. We will be helping to count birds to take a real time snapshot of birds in our area. Our list will help researchers learn about how birds are doing, if populations are changing or remaining stable. We will walk the trail and count what we see and hear. The list will then be submitted to eBird, a website dedicated to birds.

  • Native Plant Garden Design to Create Pollinator Habitats

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    Pennington School 112 W Delaware Ave, Pennington, NJ, United States

    Register Here! Transform your property into a garden that is beautiful, supports our pollinators, provides habitat, and requires less maintenance by using perennial native flowers, bushes, ground covers, and trees. Turn lawns from monocultures into lovely rich gardens with a diversity of bloom throughout the growing season. It is the vast and quickly diminishing community...

  • Art Sparks Workshop

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    Art Sparks 33 Railroad Place, Hopewell, NJ, United States

    Please join us at the Art Sparks studio as each participant creates a mixed media bird portrait on wood panel. We will paint, draw and collage as we are inspired by the the colors, shapes and variety of birds, as well as by the work of artist Pete Cromer.
    Recommended for children 5 and up. Must be accompanied by an adult.

  • Sky Safari at Baldpate Mountain

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    Baldpate Mountain 28 Fiddlers Creek Road, Titusville, NJ, United States

    The night will begin with a presentation indoors and then we will move to the mansion patio to set up telescopes. If it is cloudy, there will be a more extended presentation and not be able to observe due to low visibility but we will have a scope for show and tell. To get the best...

  • Force of Nature Hike- COVID-19 Cancelled

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    ***Cancelled due to COVID-19 Precautions***  Join us for our 2020 Force of Nature Hiking series with Romy Toussaint! Attend one hike or all! Learn about our trails and preserves with some light stretching in the beginning and end. These events are open to all family, friends, and ages (hiking difficulty will vary based on location)....

  • Clean Communities- Postponed

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    Public Works Department 203 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville, NJ, United States

    **Postponed due to COVID-19**

  • Gardening with Deer Resistant Native Plants

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    Author, photographer, and native plant expert Rachel Mackow of Wild Ridge Plants will share her secrets for Gardening with Deer Resistant Native Plants in a special Earth Day Workshop hosted with Zoom.

    This workshop includes:
    $5 registration will subsidize tree planting costs. This fee may be waived with discount code “FREETALK”
    Includes Zoom link and 10% Discount code for Wild Ridge Plants!

    $5

  • Force of Nature Hike

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    Join us for our 2020 Force of Nature Hiking series with Romy Toussaint! Attend one hike or all! Learn about our trails and preserves with some light stretching in the beginning and end. These events are open to all family, friends, and ages (hiking difficulty will vary based on location). Please email [email protected] with questions...

  • Force of Nature Hike

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    Join us for our 2020 Force of Nature Hiking series with Romy Toussaint! Attend one hike or all! Learn about our trails and preserves with some light stretching in the beginning and end. These events are open to all family, friends, and ages (hiking difficulty will vary based on location). Please email [email protected] with questions...

  • Webinar: The Link Between Deer and Invasive Plants

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    By: Mike Van Clef, Ph.D. (FoHVOS Strike Team)

    Mike will discuss why the populations of both deer and invasive plants have exploded over the last 50 years, including why different natural areas are more susceptible than others and how stewardship strategies are determined to reduce impacts on native plants and animals.

  • Webinar: How to Become a Management Hunter

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    By: Brian Kubin and Mike Bellaus (Duke Farms/ FoHVOS Strike Team)

    Brian and Mike will discuss how hunters can maximize harvests through strategic approaches on public and private lands. They will provide information on what exactly management hunting is and its benefits to our ecosystem along with ways you can get involved on your local lands as a management hunter.

  • NABA Butterfly Count

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    Thompson Preserve 95 Pennington-Hopewell Road, Hopewell, NJ, United States

    Join FoHVOS Land Steward Beth Craighead for an outdoor Butterfly Count at our Thompson Preserve! Spots are limited so please register below so we may adhere to social distancing guidelines. Masks are mandatory to attend, and must be worn if under 6ft social distancing standards from others.

  • Webinar: Creating & Participating in Local Strike Teams

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    By: Betty Ann Kelly (Union County)

    Betty Ann Kelly of Union County will be sharing some advice on how you can start your own local Strike Teams. She will provide information about working on county and municipal lands to communications and planning with officials in order to select control strategies. Lastly, the roots of a Strike Team, she will provide insight on how you can recruit volunteers to join your team.

  • Webinar: Grassland Birds and Habitat Grazing

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    By: Thom Almendinger (Duke Farms)

    Duke Farms is an ecological oasis, of over 2700 acres, in the piedmont of NJ embedded within a densely populated landscape. High-quality obligate grassland bird habitat, totaling nearly 560 acres, harbors numerous rare species. The size and condition of grassland habitat is Duke Farms’ greatest ecological asset. Managing these early successional habitats comes with unique challenges. After years of research and benchmarking with farms across the Northeast and Midwest, to find a solution other than delay mowing, Duke Farms endeavored to test rotational grazing as an alternative. Thom Almendinger will discuss this journey and detail some of the early stages of this new program.

  • Force of Nature Hike

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    Join us for our 2020 Force of Nature Hiking series with Romy Toussaint! Attend one hike or all! Learn about our trails and preserves with some light stretching in the beginning and end. These events are open to all family, friends, and ages (hiking difficulty will vary based on location). Please email [email protected] with questions...

  • Webinar: Controlling Invasives at Home and Natural Areas

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    By: Jillian Stark (Mercer County Parks Commission)

    Jillian Stark, Senior Land Steward for Mercer County Parks Commission will discuss effective and efficient control methods for the ten most common invasive plants encountered at home and natural areas.