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Tag: wolves

  • Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 pm dinner, 7:00 program – The Wolves of New England

    Join The Athol Bird & Nature Club at 6 p.m. in Liberty Hall at the Athol Town Hall (584 Main St.) for its annual dinner meeting and at 7 p.m. for Michael LeBlanc, who will clarify the many misconceptions that exist about wolves, share his first-hand knowledge of their habits, and tell the history of this remarkable animal in this area. Accompanying LeBlanc will be Denahee (below,) a wolf he has raised since birth.

    Reservations are required for the dinner (members $10, non-members $12); please respond to Cindy Hartwell at 978-544-5783 or cindyhartwell56@gmail.com by Sunday, November 4. No reservations are necessary for the program. The event will also feature an always popular Tin Can auction; participants are encouraged to bring an item to donate.

  • Saturday, May 21 – Opening of New England Forests Exhibition

    On Saturday, May 21, 2011 the Harvard Museum of Natural History will debut the new Zofnass Family Gallery with the opening of New England Forests, a permanent multi-media exhibition that explores the natural history and ecology of our regional forests, their responses to human activity, and their environmental significance.  Visitors are invited to explore the ecology of woodland caribou, wolves, and other wildlife of New England; learn about lichen cities that cling to rocks; and the circle of life within and around a forest pond from tiny aquatic insects to giant moose.

    To complement the exhibition, the museum will offer a fall 2011 series of public lectures and symposia featuring Harvard faculty and other experts.

    This new exhibition was made possible by a generous gift from Harvard alumnus Paul Zofnass [AB’69, MBA’73, HLS’73], an avid sailor and outdoorsman, who grew up in Belmont, MA and often visited the public galleries of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology as a child.  The Harvard Museum of Natural History is located at 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge, and you may visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu, or call 617-495-3045 for hours and more information.