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  • Girls into the Wild

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Sometimes you just need to run, explore and play! That’s what we do at Girls into the Wild, and lots more. Girls into the Wild is designed to get girls […]

    $300 – $330

  • The Arctic on Fire: The Impacts of Climate Change on Tundra Ecosystems

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Natalie Baillargeon Photo Chris Linder Due to climate change, the Arctic is experiencing an increase in wildfires. It is known that wildfires are going to alter the ecosystems; however, the specific biogeochemical impacts are unknown. Natalie Baillargeon and Rhys MacArthur participated in an expedition to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, AK last summer and begun a collaborative […]

    FREE

  • Nature Discovery Preschool: PreHistoric Preschool

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    This season we will travel back in time to the days of the dinosaurs. Children will learn about dinosaurs through stories, songs, movement and crafts. We will compare different dinosaurs, dig for bones, and learn about the plants they munched on. Come have a dinomite time! With Colleen Kelley Ages 3-5 (Adult required to attend […]

    $220 – $255

  • Nature Discovery Preschool: PreHistoric Preschool

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    This season we will travel back in time to the days of the dinosaurs. Children will learn about dinosaurs through stories, songs, movement and crafts. We will compare different dinosaurs, dig for bones, and learn about the plants they munched on. Come have a dinomite time! With Colleen Kelley Ages 3-5 (Adult required to attend […]

    $220 – $255

  • May Migration Spring Birding Course

    Join Dan Ziomek in a variety of local habitats during peak birding migration. Dan Ziomek birding with a program participant. with Dan Ziomek, WRSI’s Bird Songs Saturdays: April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 7am – 12pm Members $90 Non-members $115 Space is limited, Please register

    $90 – $115

  • 10th Annual Amherst Sustainability Festival

    Hitchcock has been a part of this festival since the beginning, come learn about all the amazing folks helping us build a more sustainable future. Saturday, April 27, 10am – […]

    FREE

  • Discovery Yard Garden Volunteer Work Days

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    This spring we are creating our Discovery Yard and Teaching Gardens and we need your help. The Colleen Kelley Discovery Yard will include natural play structures, log balance beams, a play thicket, a StoryWalk path, and benches and picnic tables for visitors and families to gather. Situated across from the main entrance to our Visitor […]

    FREE

  • Nature Study Club – Program session filled

    Join us for our sixth year of offering an in-depth natural history course for naturalists and citizen scientists. Each month, in our series of nature explorations with different local naturalists, we explore a focused, seasonal, natural history topic. We’ll look at nature in new ways, varying from broad habitat-wide perspectives to the finer details of […]

    $265 – $315

  • Repair Public 

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Learn how and/or where to fix broken items instead of tossing them into a landfill and buying replacements. The participants and facilitators are local community members just like you. You bring a broken item that you want help repairing as well as a willingness to try to fix it. There will be repair facilitators on-hand […]

    FREE

  • Nature Play Afterschool

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Just because it’s cold outside, doesn’t mean your kids need to stay inside to play. Have them join Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program, which is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be a free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During […]

    $225 – $270