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ECOS Speaker Series

Audubon’s Regional Office – Connecticut and New York – has lots going on! Join Laura McCarthy, Sr. Manager of Network Engagement, and Eric Lind, Director of Education Programming, for a conversation about Audubon’s network and […]

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Annual Dinner 2024

Turf Tavern 40 Mohawk Avenue, Scotia, NY 5:00 PM Reception * 6:00 PM Dinner * 7:00 PM President’s Remarks * 7:15 PM Speakers Please RSVP by April 8, 2024. DINNER MENU $70 per person Cash […]

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Spring Walk: Lawson Lake

This beautiful lake is surrounded by dense second-growth forest, wet meadows, and heavily vegetated swamps, with tributary streams that support reptiles and amphibians.  There is much woods and water bird life.  The gently rolling loop […]

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Spring Walk: Woodlawn Preserve

A beautiful selection of woodland, lacustrine, and pine barrens, with some of the largest dunes in the Albany Pine Bush and “one of the most biologically diverse parcels in Schenectady County” (Wikipedia).  Relatively flat though […]

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Spring Walk: Hudson Crossing

This is a nature and historic park just north of Schuylerville on the Hudson River.  Located on an island of Champlain Canal Lock 5, it offers panoramic river vistas as well as canal overlooks along […]

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Spring Walk: Vale Park and Cemetery

“Especially Mushrooms” This walk will focus on mushrooms as well as trees and wildflowers.  Mushroom identification will be for beginners!  Vale Cemetery is an historic “rural” cemetery that opened in 1857 with the planting of […]

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Spring Walk: Pine Hollow Arboretum

If we’ve timed this right we’ll be able to wander through magnolias in bloom, as well as exploring various plant regions from Europe to Asia to America.  Easy hiking, mostly level, though it might be […]

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Spring Walk: Reist Sanctuary

“Especially Birding” A special birding opportunity in the H.G. Bird Sanctuary, a Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club sanctuary.  Its woods, dunes, and wetlands also include a variety of flowers as well as ferns, mosses, and giant trees.  […]