Archive of Past Events

A NewtonSERVES project (registration opens April 1 at the NewtonSERVES website) Cold Spring Park is being invaded by garlic mustard, knotweed, buckthorn, and other species. [...]

  NewtonSERVES is a Day of Community Service that brings together over 1,000 volunteers of all ages to complete more than 50 community projects for [...]

Join Newton Cemetery arborist Robert Reardon for a tour highlighting the unusual tree species found in Newton Cemetery. Learn more about the cemetery

Help clean up Hemlock Gorge during the Friends of Hemlock Gorge Annual Spring Cleanup.

  Help clean up the Charles during the Charles River Watershed Association's 20th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup

We will continue the work, started two years ago in collaboration with horticulturalist Bruce Wenning and ecology professor Eric Olson, to save the red maple [...]

Forest and Vernal Pool Exploration at Webster Woods Join us in Webster Woods, Newton’s largest conservation area, as we walk the woods and explore the [...]

Forest and Vernal Pool Exploration at Webster Woods Join us in Webster Woods, Newton’s largest conservation area, as we walk the woods and explore the [...]

Judy Hepburn will be leading a Brookline Bird Club walk to see woodcocks in their mating dance. The Newton Conservators has led efforts to restore [...]

March is the time for Woodcock mating. The "Sky Dance" performed by males is done under cover of darkness. The "Woodcock Meadow" in Nahanton Park [...]