by Diane De Luca
NH Audubon is establishing a one-acre demonstration pollinator meadow at its headquarters in Concord using non-herbicidal methods. This project will engage community members and organizational collaborators in site preparation, seeding, and ongoing maintenance of two successive half-acre pollinator meadow plots in publicly accessible fields. This project will provide a valuable workshop location for regional citizen science training. Project staff will host one training event per year in order to support ongoing citizen science monitoring of native plants and pollinator species.
The workshops will include hands-on best practices for citizen scientists when monitoring for phenological changes throughout the year as well as identification of focal species of insects that would add to the state’s knowledge base of insects of conservation need. Collaborators from UNH Extension Master Gardeners, Xerces Society, and USFWS will be included in workshops. Participants of the annual workshops will learn about how to successfully remove invasive plants using non-herbicidal methods by walking through the site coordination process. Visitors to the project site will learn about site management via the interpretive signage that will be installed at the perimeter of the meadow.
(by Pam Hunt) Fall migration is here, and while many birders focus on the warblers, thrushes, and sparrows starting to wing their way south, there’s another popular migrant species that’s
(Photos and story by Diane De Luca) The gardens are alive with pollinators. Visitors, campers, and those of us who work in the gardens are all drawn to the activity
Parker Schuerman created this collage video of all the hard work he and his team are putting into the nearly-finished All Persons Trail at McLane Center. This trail is our
(Photos and story by Marc Nutter) Whack! Whack! Whack! A galvanized steel pipe is smacked against the low branches of an oak tree. Little tube feet and even hooked tarsi
Join New Hampshire Audubon for our 2022 Pollinator Webinar series as we celebrate Pollinator Conservation. This series seeks to inspire involvement and engagement in pollinator conservation through close focus programs
Protecting pollinators begins with protecting their habitat. Right now, one of our favorite projects is the pollinator meadow habitat restoration in the fields outside the McLane Center in Concord. After
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