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February 2020
Winter Tree Identification
This program is co-sponsored by the New Canaan Land Trust and New Canaan Library. Please register on the Library's event page. For the 12pm walk, register HERE For the 1:30pm walk, register HERE While leaves provide the best clues about the identity of a tree, there are still many ways to identify leafless trees in the winter. Join the New Canaan Land Trust on a walk through the Watson-Symington Preserve, and learn to use clues such as branching pattern, bark…
Find out more »March 2020
Nature’s Best Hope: An Evening with Doug Tallamy
Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each…
Find out more »Exploring the Night Sky: Family Hour
This program is co-sponsored by the Stamford Nature Center, New Canaan Land Trust, and New Canaan Library. Please register on the Library’s event page (link coming soon). Join the Fairfield County Astronomical Society for an evening of star-gazing and planet spotting. We will have multiple telescopes set up to track celestial objects as they move across the night sky, and amateur astronomers will be on-hand to answer all of your questions about astronomy. This 8pm-9pm viewing is geared towards children…
Find out more »Exploring the Night Sky: Adult Hour
This program is co-sponsored by the Stamford Nature Center, New Canaan Land Trust, and New Canaan Library. Please register on the Library’s event page (link coming soon). Join the Fairfield County Astronomical Society for an evening of star-gazing and planet spotting. We will have multiple telescopes set up to track celestial objects as they move across the night sky, and amateur astronomers will be on-hand to answer all of your questions about astronomy. This 9pm-10pm viewing is geared towards adults.…
Find out more »April 2020
A Walk Through History
This program is co-sponsored by the New Canaan Land Trust and New Canaan Library. Please register on the Library’s event page (link coming soon). Prior to today’s suburbanization and extensive development, New Canaan’s landscape was covered with farms, pastures, and managed woodlots. Evidence of these various land uses are still visible today, and with a keen eye, one can deduce how a given piece of land might have been used over a century ago. Aaron Lefland, the Executive Director of…
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