Natural Resources Educational Series:
Windham County: Past, Present and Into the Future
Co-sponsored by: Dummerston Conservation Commission, Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center
This public series is part of on-going efforts to educate the people of the region about their environment and their rich store of natural resources so they can make good decisions about the protection of these resources into the future.
When: February 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017, mornings 10-12
Place: Learning Collaborative, 471 US Rt. 5, Dummerston, VT
Information and Registration: info@dummerstonconservation.com, (802) 257-0012
Cost: $50 for the series, $15 a session. Open to all regardless of ability to pay.
February 1, geology enthusiast Roger Haydock will present a slide show entitled "450 Million Years in Windham County". This entertaining program will explain how the landscape of our county came to be what we see today, starting from a southern hemisphere origin, to mass land collision, volcanoes, to dinosaurs, to glaciers and most recently???. At the end of the presentation there will be a speculative look at our possible future.
February 8, ecologist Tom Wessells will discuss the history of the forest of our New England Landscape, our forests as they exist today and what we might expect our forests to be like as we move into the future. Tom is well-known for his entertaining and thought provoking presentations and for his books "Reading the Forested Landscape", "the Granite Landscape" and "Forest Foresnics".
February 15, Patti Smith, wildlife rehabilitator, naturalist at the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center and author of "The Beavers of Poppels Pond" will describe the wildlife that inhabited this area after the retreat of the glaciers, how that has changed over time and the factors responsible for that change, our current wildlife and a projection on the local and regional wildlife into the future. Patti writes the quarterly BEEC newsletter, has a monthly column in the Brattleboro Reformer and has an on-long blog where she describes her adventures with the wild creatures of the area.
February 22, Bob Engel, former professor of biology at Marlboro College will talk with us about the plants and pollinators that were here, are here now, those that we hope will be here in the future and what might affect them going forward. Over the years, Bob has taught courses ranging from general biology to tropical, marine and desert ecology, and from ornithology to comparative physiology and plant taxonomy. Bob says, "I make sure my students are familiar with the biological environments of whatever they study, whether it be cells, organisms or ecosystems."
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