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Conversation Highlights: The Sunday Evening Edition, September 8, 2019

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Category: Hilltown Families Tags: Apples, Arts and Crafts, Autum Leaves, autumn, Back to School, Community Service, Conservation, Creative Placemaking, Emotional Intelligence, Good News, leaves, Milkweed, mindfulness, monarch butterflies, Nature-Based Crafts, Pollinators, Public Art, Recipes, Rural Placemaking, School Lunch, siblings, Teens, Volunteering

Conversation Highlights: The Sunday Edition, March 31, 2019

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Category: Hilltown Families Tags: April Fool's Day, Citizen Science, Conservation, Eastern Meadowlark, Nature Based Learning, Ornithology, Recycling, Scavenger Hunt, Suicide Prevention, Sustainability

Mixing Conservation with Art Releases Creativity

Combining artistic expression and conservation, the annual Junior Duck Stamp Program gives children the opportunity to study local waterfowl and practice using their artistic skills to portray them in their native habitat. The competition even provides curriculum materials to support families and educators in expanding children’s learning as they participate!

Category: Animals, Art, Hilltown Families, Suggested Activity Tags: Animal Studies, arts program, Conservation, duck program, nature education, Painting, waterfowl

Service-Based Learning: Volunteer Land Monitors

Community-service opportunities, like Land Monitors for the Hilltown Land Trust, are ways older students can participate in service-based learning while supporting natural resources they have grown to care about. On Saturday, March 15, the Hilltown Land Trust and the Kestrel Trust will hold a Volunteer Stewardship Training Workshop at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton…

Category: Hampshire County, Service Based Learning, Suggested Activity, Volunteer Opportunity Tags: Community Service, Conservation, Land Preservation, Service Based Learning

YardMap: Make Your Yard a Personal Refuge

Have you hear of YardMap? It’s a fun citizen scientist project that families can participate in, mapping their yards using Google maps and collecting data for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Find out about this opportunity…

Category: Citizen Scientist Tags: citizen science project, Citizen Scientist, Conservation, google maps, habitat, Mapping, Ornithology, Yardmap

Federal Fish and Wildlife Services’ Junior Duck Stamp Program

Supplement Habitat Studies with the Junior Duck Stamp Program Western Massachusetts is home to a wide variety of duck species. These beautiful birds make their homes in wetland areas, a habitat in need of conservation. Students can learn about duck species and help to promote wetland conservation by participating in the Federal Fish and Wildlife Services’ Junior Duck Stamp Program! This contest calls for students to create their own stamps, featuring a… Read More

Category: Animals, Art, Homeschooling Tags: arts curriculum, Conservation, duck stamp program, ducks, Ecology, Environment, Federal Fish and Wildlife Services, habitat conservation, Junior Duck Stamp Program, Nature, nature science, Ornithology, place-based education, Research, Science, Science Curriculum, STEM, western massachusetts

Citizen Scientists Wanted for Bald Eagle Count

Bald Eagle Count Along with Audubon’s December Christmas Bird Count comes a second opportunity to participate as a citizen scientist while observing bird populations in your area. The Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (DFW) conducts an annual survey of Bald Eagle sightings during January- this year’s dates are the 4th through 18th. Citizen participation in the survey is important because Bald Eagle populations have been increasing, making it more difficult for… Read More