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  • Salamander Tunnel Maintenance

    Henry Street Salamander Tunnels Amherst

    Sunday, February 28, 10am Hitchcock Center Volunteers and Staff We’ll head over to Henry Street and prepare the tunnels for the salamander migration. Timing is everything for this project because the salamanders will move on the first rainy night when temperatures are above 40 degrees after the snow is mostly gone from the woods. So […]

    FREE
  • Exploring Larch Hill – All Welcome Monthly Sunday Nature Walk

    Larch Hill Conservation Area 525 South Pleasant St., Amherst

    Come young, old, novice or seasoned and join one of our naturalists to see what you can see each month on our new fourth Sunday of the month nature walk around Larch Hill.

    FREE
  • Homeschool Discovery Day: How Sweet It Is

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

    When you pour syrup on your pancakes do you wonder how it’s made? Today we’ll go on a field trip to a sugar shack to see for ourselves how maple sap is made into syrup, and discover how the other parts of the tree are part of the process.

    $42 – $46
  • Nature Play Afterschool

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

    Do you just wanna play outside? Do you love building snow forts and making friends? Need more outdoor recess in your life? Then Nature Play Afterschool at the Hitchcock Center is for you! Each Wednesday afterschool we play outside all afternoon, building shelters, playing games and exploring the woods.

    $230 – $255
  • Hitchcock’s New “Living” Building Site Tour

    Fridays, March 4, April 1 and May 6 12:30pm – 1:00pm Join us at our our construction site for a free tour on the 1st Friday of each month. Open to all, no registration required. Park and meet in the Red Barn parking lot at Hampshire College located at 893 West Street.

    FREE
  • Nature Play Afterschool

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

    Do you just wanna play outside? Do you love building snow forts and making friends? Need more outdoor recess in your life? Then Nature Play Afterschool at the Hitchcock Center is for you! Each Wednesday afterschool we play outside all afternoon, building shelters, playing games and exploring the woods.

    $230 – $255
  • Destination Tar Sands

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

    with DeAnne and Chris Riddle
    “Tar Sands' refers to vast sand and bitumen deposits in northern Alberta, Canada. The Keystone Pipeline would carry treated bitumen from these deposits to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Extracting this bitumen does profound environmental damage. To see it for themselves, the Riddles traveled to Fort McMurray, Alberta, in July of 2015.

    FREE
  • Girls into the Wild

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

    Get to know nature, and make friends at the same time! This afterschool program is designed to bring girls together in a supportive environment that fosters creativity, nature skills and inquiry. Each afternoon will consist of hands-on projects and free outdoor exploration at the Larch Hill Conservation Area.

    $135 – $160
  • Nature Play Afterschool

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

    Do you just wanna play outside? Do you love building snow forts and making friends? Need more outdoor recess in your life? Then Nature Play Afterschool at the Hitchcock Center is for you! Each Wednesday afterschool we play outside all afternoon, building shelters, playing games and exploring the woods.

    $230 – $255
  • Phenology All Year: Owl Natural History & Night Field Trip

    Directions upon registration

    with Dan Zoimek
    Join us for our third 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.

    $250 – $275