Dwindling daylight and cooling temperatures trigger humans to dig out hats, gloves, and heavy coats. Other animals including insects, mammals, birds, and reptiles take these environmental queues and prepare in remarkable ways to survive winter. Join an inquisitive group of adults as we wander Five Rivers and wonder about its inhabitants’ preparations. Photographs, guide books, skulls, pelts, and other materials will help enlighten us as we discuss the focused, quiet activity all around us. Who knows? It might just trigger us to be more proactive in our own preparations for winter!
Time and Dates:
10:00 – 11:30 pm on Thursdays (11/3, 11/10, 11/17). Rain Date: 12/1.
Dwindling daylight and cooling temperatures trigger humans to dig out hats, gloves, and heavy coats. Other animals including insects, mammals, birds, and reptiles take these environmental queues and prepare in remarkable ways to survive winter. Join an inquisitive group of adults as we wander Five Rivers and wonder about its inhabitants’ preparations. Photographs, guide books, skulls, pelts, and other materials will help enlighten us as we discuss the focused, quiet activity all around us. Who knows? It might just trigger us to be more proactive in our own preparations for winter!
Time and Dates:
10:00 – 11:30 pm on Thursdays (11/3, 11/10, 11/17). Rain Date: 12/1.
Dwindling daylight and cooling temperatures trigger humans to dig out hats, gloves, and heavy coats. Other animals including insects, mammals, birds, and reptiles take these environmental queues and prepare in remarkable ways to survive winter. Join an inquisitive group of adults as we wander Five Rivers and wonder about its inhabitants’ preparations. Photographs, guide books, skulls, pelts, and other materials will help enlighten us as we discuss the focused, quiet activity all around us. Who knows? It might just trigger us to be more proactive in our own preparations for winter!
Time and Dates:
10:00 – 11:30 pm on Thursdays (11/3, 11/10, 11/17). Rain Date: 12/1.
Snow Snake is a traditional Haudenosaunee game played during the winter. The object of the game is to throw your Snow Snake (a straight tree branch) the farthest along a smooth trough made in the snow. Snow Snakes come in various lengths and designs.
Five Rivers Snow Snake sessions will demonstrate how to prepare the branch for racing by removing twigs, debarking, sanding, decorating, and waxing. You will head home with a branch, sand paper, and wax to use in completing your own unique Snow Snake by Race Day.
Snow Snake is a traditional Haudenosaunee game played during the winter. The object of the game is to throw your Snow Snake (a straight tree branch) the farthest along a smooth trough made in the snow. Snow Snakes come in various lengths and designs.
Five Rivers Snow Snake sessions will demonstrate how to prepare the branch for racing by removing twigs, debarking, sanding, decorating, and waxing. You will head home with a branch, sand paper, and wax to use in completing your own unique Snow Snake by Race Day.
Snow Snake is a traditional Haudenosaunee game played during the winter. The object of the game is to throw your Snow Snake (a straight tree branch) the farthest along a smooth trough made in the snow. Snow Snakes come in various lengths and designs.
Five Rivers Snow Snake sessions will demonstrate how to prepare the branch for racing by removing twigs, debarking, sanding, decorating, and waxing. You will head home with a branch, sand paper, and wax to use in completing your own unique Snow Snake by Race Day.
Snow Snake is a traditional Haudenosaunee game played during the winter. The object of the game is to throw your Snow Snake (a straight tree branch) the farthest along a smooth trough made in the snow. Snow Snakes come in various lengths and designs.
Five Rivers Snow Snake sessions will demonstrate how to prepare the branch for racing by removing twigs, debarking, sanding, decorating, and waxing. You will head home with a branch, sand paper, and wax to use in completing your own unique Snow Snake by Race Day.
Snow Snake is a traditional Haudenosaunee game played during the winter. The object of the game is to throw your Snow Snake (a straight tree branch) the farthest along a smooth trough made in the snow. Snow Snakes come in various lengths and designs.
Five Rivers Snow Snake sessions will demonstrate how to prepare the branch for racing by removing twigs, debarking, sanding, decorating, and waxing. You will head home with a branch, sand paper, and wax to use in completing your own unique Snow Snake by Race Day.
Snow Snake is a traditional Haudenosaunee game played during the winter. The object of the game is to throw your Snow Snake (a straight tree branch) the farthest along a smooth trough made in the snow. Snow Snakes come in various lengths and designs.
Five Rivers Snow Snake sessions will demonstrate how to prepare the branch for racing by removing twigs, debarking, sanding, decorating, and waxing. You will head home with a branch, sand paper, and wax to use in completing your own unique Snow Snake by Race Day.
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!
What are those funny shaped growths on leaves, roots, twigs, plants, and flowers? Galls. Be they round, elliptical, bumpy, or bulging, most are caused by insect activity. Head afield with a Friends Naturalist in search of galls and learn of the one-to-one relationship each has with a local insect.
What are those funny shaped growths on leaves, roots, twigs, plants, and flowers? Galls. Be they round, elliptical, bumpy, or bulging, most are caused by insect activity. Head afield with a Friends Naturalist in search of galls and learn of the one-to-one relationship each has with a local insect.
Winter is a wonderful time to explore the lives of insects, mammals, trees, and weed plants. With Donald W. Stokes’ A Guide to Nature In Winter as our escort, let’s head outdoors to discover life under, in and above the snow. Each week participants will prepare for our walk by reading a general information section, usually 2 to 3 pages. We will hunt for examples of our reading and delve into their unique characteristics, history, and identification.
Snowshoes will be provided if needed. Once registration is confirmed, a copy of the book will be waiting for you at the Visitor Center.
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!
What are those funny shaped growths on leaves, roots, twigs, plants, and flowers? Galls. Be they round, elliptical, bumpy, or bulging, most are caused by insect activity. Head afield with a Friends Naturalist in search of galls and learn of the one-to-one relationship each has with a local insect.
Winter is a wonderful time to explore the lives of insects, mammals, trees, and weed plants. With Donald W. Stokes’ A Guide to Nature In Winter as our escort, let’s head outdoors to discover life under, in and above the snow. Each week participants will prepare for our walk by reading a general information section, usually 2 to 3 pages. We will hunt for examples of our reading and delve into their unique characteristics, history, and identification.
Snowshoes will be provided if needed. Once registration is confirmed, a copy of the book will be waiting for you at the Visitor Center.
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!
Learn how to Maple Sugar at home in time for the sap run. Spend an hour with a Friends Naturalist learning how to identify a maple tree, tap a spile, and collect sap. View one method for evaporating sap to syrup at home and ask questions before leaving with a spile and a smile!