Archive of Past Events

Join a five-mile hike through woods, meadows, and fields along the Newton sections of the Sudbury and Cochituate aqueducts. This is a steady but not [...]

Nahanton Park offers a mix of woodlands, wetlands, edge habitat, and meadows along the Charles River, making it one of the best birding spots in [...]

Warblers, Waders and Woodlands Brooks Mathewson Harvard University Master of Forest Science 2006 Join ecologist, photographer and natural history educator Brooks Mathewson as he presents [...]

Brooks Mathewson Harvard University Master of Forest Science 2006 Ecologist and fine art photographer Brooks Mathewson has been observing and photographing the forests, beaver ponds, [...]

David Gessner David Gessner will discuss his "call for a new environmentalism, inspired by a canoe trip down the Charles River with Dan Driscoll." David [...]

Ned Friedman Director, Arnold Arboretum Professor Friedman will speak on Darwin and the origin of flowering plants. As he noted on the Arnold Arboretum's Web [...]

Brooks Mathewson Harvard University Master of Forest Science 2006 Rhode Island provides critical wintering, migratory, and breeding habitat for a great diversity of bird species [...]

Joseph S. Elkinton Professor of Entomology, UMass Amherst With the winter moth now invading New England's trees, attention is being given to long-term monitoring of [...]

Julie Coop Manager of Plant Health, The Arnold Arboretum To a packed house of tree lovers in the Library's Druker Auditorium, the Arnold Arboretum's Julie [...]

Allen Young Land Protection Advocate Newton's pure water originates in the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, yet the area around Quabbin is unfamiliar to most [...]