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  • Tuesday, August 4, 4:30 pm – BioBlitz Session Online

    Tuesday, August 4, 4:30 pm – BioBlitz Session Online

    Learn about BioBlitz, and get ready to participate in citizen science through an instructional session online on August 4 at 4:30 with Dr. Colleen Hitchcock.

    The Young Friends of the Public Garden are excited to announce a BioBlitz in our three parks. We will have a Zoom introduction with Dr. Colleen Hitchcock, a professor in the biology department and environmental studies program at Brandeis University. She will introduce everyone to what a BioBlitz is, the contribution to science, how do you participate, and how to use the free iNaturalist app to record information. Fun for all ages! Register at https://friendsofthepublicgarden.org/2020/07/21/august-4-2020-bioblitz/ Zoom links will be sent to registrants.

  • Saturdays, January 26, February 9, and February 23, 8:30 am – 10:30 am – Smartphone Photography: Winter Landscapes Enhanced

    Saturdays, January 26, February 9, and February 23, 8:30 am – 10:30 am – Smartphone Photography: Winter Landscapes Enhanced

    Capture the essence of winter, when landscapes present a diluted palette of colors and contrasts are most striking. Professional photographer Nancy Katz will introduce fundamental concepts of landscape photography and then teach techniques for getting the best photographs from your smartphone camera. You will capture images in color and black and white, then learn to enhance them using a host of editing tools provided in the Snapseed App. (Note: Nancy Katz was selected by the Apple Store of Boston as a guest artist in March 2017 for her photography work with her iPhone and has taught her techniques there and most recently at Brandeis University’s Osher Life Long Learning Institute.) The three session, Arnold Arboretum class will take place Saturdays, January 26, February 9, and February 23 from 8:30 – 10:30. Fee Arboretum members $65, nonmembers $84. Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.

  • Friday, April 11, 10:00 am – 2:30 pm – Merging Conservation and Agriculture in New England

    A series of lectures entitled Merging Conservation and Agriculture in New England will take place in the Harvard Forest Seminar Room, Harvard Forest, 324 N. Main Street, Petersham, on Friday, April 11 from 10 – 2:30. The day’s schedule is as follows:

    10:00 a.m. New England Food Vision with Brian Donahue of Brandeis University

    Find out more about the New England Food Vision: http://foodsolutionsne.org/new-england-food-vision. This vision is, in part, an extension of the Wildlands and Woodlands vision for New England: http://www.wildlandsandwoodlands.org/home.

    11:00 a.m. Exploring the Interactions between Nature and Farming

    Conrad Vispo, Claudia Knab-Vispo, Anna Duho, Kyle Bradford – Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program http://farmscapeecology.org/

    Looking for feedback we will outline our rationale and draft methods for an upcoming pilot project in the Hudson Valley to explore: 1) what nature can provide to farming (in terms of animal-mediated ecological ‘services’), 2) what farming can provide to nature (in terms of habitats for native plants and animals), and 3), what information is most useful for farmers and land trusts working with agricultural lands. See http://hawthornevalleyfarm.org/fep/
    12:00 p.m. Lunch and Discussion. Please bring your own lunch
    1:00 p.m. Walk Exploring Agriculture & Conservation Management with David Foster – Director, Harvard Forest
    This walk will meet in the Harvard Forest Common Room and carpool to the former Petersham Country Club and Bryant Farm, which have been purchased by the Harvard Forest and are one-half mile from Shaler Hall. Joined by ecologists Glenn Motzkin, Professor Martha Hoopes from Mount Holyoke College, the speakers, Harvard Forest staff including John Wisnewski and Audrey Barker Plotkin, and others we will walk the landscape to discuss Harvard Forest plans to graze the land with an objective of developing a series of conservation grasslands while studying and documenting the process.

    For additional information call David R. Foster, 978-724-3302.

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  • Wednesday, February 6, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Managing Invasives at Home and Around Town

    Grow Native Massachusetts is sponsoring a public lecture series from February through June, 2013, from 7 – 8:30 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway in Cambridge.  The first of the free series in entitled Managing Invasives at Home and Around Town, with Eric Olson and Josh Ellsworth, lecturers at Brandeis University and citizen stewards. Founder of the Newton Invasive Plant Task Force, Dr. Olson has led substantial volunteer efforts to control invasive species in Newton and Waltham. He will discuss this management challenge, especially the importance of building trust with local Conservation Commissions, and the risks and pleasures of depending entirely upon volunteer labor. Josh Ellsworth will help us understand the ecology of invasives, along with specific techniques for controlling the species we most commonly encounter in Greater Boston. Dr. Eric Olson and Josh Ellsworth both teach at Brandeis University. Lecture Co-sponsored by The Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation.  Photo of knotweed pull site from www.newtonconservators.org.

  • Tuesday, June 26, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Changes in the New England Landscape

    Brian Donahue will speak on Changes in the New England Landscape  Tuesday, June 26, from 7 – 9 at the Thayer Memorial Library, 717 Main Street in Lancaster, Massachusetts.  The free lecture is part of the Rosemary Davis Environmental Series The Fall & Rise of the Forest from Pre-European Times to Today. Brian Donahue, the author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (Yale University Press) and co-author of Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Landscape (Harvard University), will share his knowledge of our region’s environmental history, conservation efforts, and stewardship. He is Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University. This program is sponsored by the Greater Worcester Community Foundation, Rosemary Davis Memorial Fund. For more information visit www.thayermemoriallibrary.org.

  • Tuesday, April 13, 5:15 pm – Cold Comfort: The Biogeography of Northern British America

    The Massachusetts Historical Society annually sponsors the Boston Environmental History Seminar, an academic forum for scholars as well as interested members of the public, to discuss aspects of American environmental history.  On Tuesday, April 13, beginning at 5:15 pm, Anya Zilberstein of Concordia University in Montreal will speak on “Cold Comfort: The Biogeography of Northern British America.”  Brian Donahue of Brandeis University will also comment.  The Massachusetts Historical Society is located at  1154 Boylston Street in Boston.  For information on the 2009-2010 series, and to register, log on to www.masshist.org, or call 617-536-1608.  If you wish to receive a copy of the paper in advance, you may subscribe on-line for the modest fee of $15, or you may receive the paper by mail for $25.

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  • Tuesday, November 3, 6:00 pm – Feast or Pharmacy? Meeting Micronutrient Needs with Local Food

    Ellen Messer, Visiting Professor of Gastronomy at Boston University, will present a free lecture on Tuesday, November 3 at 6 pm, entitled “Feast or Pharmacy? Meeting Micronutrient Needs with Local Foods.”  The lecture will take place at 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 117, and is free and open to the public, although Boston University asks that you call to reserve a space – 617-353-9852.   Dr.  Messer is an anthropologist and specialist in human rights, food security, and religion, with a special interest in religion and development. She has taught Religion and Development and, in a cross-cultural approach, Nutrition and Food Security, at Brandeis University. The talk is part of BU’s ongoing MLA in Gastronomy Lecture Series in Food Studies.  More information on all the lectures can be found at www.bu.edu/foodandwine.