Welcome to the Forest Society's events calendar! Click on the event name to find more information and register through the Forest Society or one of our community partners.
Join Matt Scaccia and learn more about Creek Farm’s significance in the historical, cultural and natural landscape of the NH Seacoast.
Join us to help get ready for the bird banding season by clearing brush for mist net lanes and setting/stabilizing net poles at the Black Mountain Forest in Sutton, NH
Join Forest Society staff, White Mountain Attractions staff, and other volunteers for a day of spring cleaning at Lost River Reservation - The Forest Society's longest owned reservation!
This is a great way to give back to an iconic NH destination, but also a chance to learn about the long history of the gorge formation, protection, and the visitor experience as well.
Join us the third Saturday of each month for our kids craft/nature hour at The Rocks. We will meet in the Carriage Barn and spend the first half hour completing a craft and learning about nature. Each month will feature its own theme. Then for the last 30 minutes, we will spend time outside expanding upon our monthly theme.
In May, we will talk about birds and bird watching.
Ever wondered what the tiny building sitting outside the Carriage Barn at The Rocks is? Join us on Saturday, May 17 to learn more about Fanny’s House - hike up to the original site of construction and then explore the building in it’s current location and view a showing of a talk Author Abigail A. Van Slyck recently gave about her new book "Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood."
Join us to help with a variety of projects at this relatively new property!
The day is composed of two guided, three-hour wildflower ID walks, led by wildflower enthusiast Ginny Jeffryes and The Rocks' Senior Outreach Manager Nigel Manley. The walks take place on the historic Mile Path, which is typically off-limits to visitors, and discuss the property's storied history, the array of plants growing there, and the forestry work done as part of The Rocks' long-range forest management plan. Choose the morning walk, from 9 AM to 12 PM, or the afternoon walk, from 1 to 4 PM.
Join us the third Saturday of each month for our kids craft/nature hour at The Rocks. We will meet in the Carriage Barn and spend the first half hour completing a craft and learning about nature. Each month will feature its own theme. Then for the last 30 minutes, we will spend time outside expanding upon our monthly theme.
Come dressed to be outside and wearing sturdy shoes.
In June, we will talk about wildflowers and bees.
Join Bill Tyre, Executive Director and Curator of Glessner House in Chicago, as he shares one of the numerous talks he has developed on the Glessner family. This presentation will explore the lives of John and Frances Glessner, with a focus on their two homes. It will also look at the life of their son George, who served several terms in the New Hampshire state legislature, and their daughter, Frances Glessner Lee, the mother of forensic science, who created her famous Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death at The Rocks in the 1940s and 1950s.