A Bird Conservation Update: Spring 2024
This spring, Harris Center staff, interns, and volunteers have installed nest boxes, monitored goshawk breeding territories, and more.
This spring, Harris Center staff, interns, and volunteers have installed nest boxes, monitored goshawk breeding territories, and more.
In March, the Harris Center protected a 10-acre Harrisville property with a scenic walking trail along Nubanusit Brook.
In 2023, our community scientists and interns documented 5 new vernal pools in four Monadnock Region towns.
Thanks to a generous landowner — and Harris Center supporters — 46 acres of exceptional wildlife habitat along the Peterborough-Hancock town line have been protected.
In the summer of 2023, interns provided essential support for a wide variety of projects, from conservation easement monitoring to invasive species removal to forest community inventory.
The Harris Center is working to protect 46 acres of exceptional wildlife habitat along Middle Road.
The Harris Center is working to protect land on Skatutakee’s eastern shoulder that will provide vital connectivity between conservation lands to the north and west.
In 2022, our community scientists and interns documented 5 new vernal pools in three Monadnock Region towns.
In December, generous landowners donated conservation easements on 103 forested acres in Antrim, and on 146 acres of farmland in Peterborough.
Biologists recently affixed satellite transmitters to two Broad-winged Hawks in the SuperSanctuary as part of ongoing research on the migration ecology of this iconic raptor species.
This fall, we invite you to enjoy the Harris Center’s beautiful trails while helping raise money for trailside benches.
Grasshopper Sparrows have a better chance for breeding success in Greenfield, thanks to several friends of the Harris Center.