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The Skinny on NBNC Summer Camps

By North Branch Nature Center | Jun 18, 2019 | Comments Off on The Skinny on NBNC Summer Camps

On a particularly cold, rainy, sleety, icy, snowy, grey April day (remember all of those!?), Field Marks sat down with Summer Camp Co-Director Carrie Riker to talk about NBNC’s longest-running…

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Wanna-Bees

By North Branch Nature Center | Jun 14, 2019 | Comments Off on Wanna-Bees

This is the first in a series of posts celebrating our native insects and pollinators. Come to BugFest on June 30th to learn more! Feature photo by Bryan Pfeiffer You…

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NBNC goes to Yellowstone

By North Branch Nature Center | Jun 1, 2019 | Comments Off on NBNC goes to Yellowstone

(Photos by Kate Taylor and Sean Beckett) By Kate Taylor, NBNC Yellowstone Participant “Open the hatches and get up there. Now!” It was dawn on our 5th day in Yellowstone…

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Conserving Pollination

By North Branch Nature Center | May 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Conserving Pollination

By Sean Beckett, NBNC Staff Naturalist (Banner image: Baltimore Checkerspot; All imagery by Josh Lincoln) An act of clever deception is one of the most important things in the world.…

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NBNC’s World Series of Birding Youth Team – The Results!

By North Branch Nature Center | May 16, 2019 | Comments Off on NBNC’s World Series of Birding Youth Team – The Results!

Last weekend marked an anniversary for NBNC: 20 years since we first sent a youth team to the World Series of Birding. This annual event, held each May in New…

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Amphibian Road Crossing: Mid-season update

By North Branch Nature Center | Apr 23, 2019 | Comments Off on Amphibian Road Crossing: Mid-season update

You know the old adage: April showers bring — amphibian migrations! (Well, May flowers too, but those come later). During the warm evening rains last week our Amphibian Road Crossing…

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NBNC is April’s Hunger Mountain Co-op Featured Community Partner!

By North Branch Nature Center | Apr 4, 2019 | Comments Off on NBNC is April’s Hunger Mountain Co-op Featured Community Partner!

By Robert Barossi, Community Relations Assistant Manager, Hunger Mountain Co-op Re-posted from the Hunger Mountain Co-op Blog North Branch Nature Center began twenty-three years ago with a staff of just…

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Never Just a Track

By North Branch Nature Center | Feb 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Never Just a Track

by Dave Muska, NBNC Teacher/Naturalist Editor’s Note: Dave will be leading an Introductory Wildlife Tracking workshop this Sunday, Feb. 10. Just four spots remain; learn more and register here!  …

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Local Youth Score Touchdown in Superbowl of Birding

By North Branch Nature Center | Feb 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Local Youth Score Touchdown in Superbowl of Birding

By Zac Cota, AmeriCorps Member Teacher-Naturalist Each winter Mass Audubon holds the Superbowl of Birding, a 12-hour birding competition along the seacoast. Our largest youth team yet comprised 10 youth,…

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The Nature Of: Owls on the Move

By North Branch Nature Center | Dec 21, 2018 | Comments Off on The Nature Of: Owls on the Move

By Zac Cota, AmeriCorps Teacher-Naturalist Article from the winter edition of our “Field Marks” newsletter A constant “toot”echoes across North Branch’s star-lit field: the call of the Northern Saw-whet Owl.…

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