Join Williamstown Rural Lands and certified Tai Chi instructor Mary Hannah Parkman on April 6 from 9:30 – 11 a.m. to learn the art of mindful movement through Tai Chi. Mary Hannah will guide participants in slow-paced movements that encourage mindfulness and thereby deepen capacity for connection with self, the natural world and one another. […]
April 25, 3 - 5 pm, Invasive Species Workdays: Garlic Mustard Challenge at Lehovec Natural Area. Link. Feeling helpless in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss? Roll up your sleeves and join Williamstown Rural Lands in our effort to restore the local landscape! Join us at Lehovec Natural Area on April 25 from […]
Friday, April 26th to Saturday, April 27th, 2024 Spend the weekend with Brian Gilbert of Hilltown Anglers learning the basics of Fly Fishing! This day-and-a-half retreat includes: Friday night accommodations at Blue Vista Motor Lodge with access to firepits, hot tubs and sauna Friday evening workshop (6pm - 8pm) introducing anglers to equipment and gear, […]
Join Williamstown Rural Land for a leisurely birding experience at Sheep Hill (671 Cold Spring Rd., Williamstown) on May 11 from 7:30 - 9 a.m. with former Audubon chapter president and Williamstown local Tommy Richey. We will start at the farmhouse - looking for birds in the willows around Josiah's Pond and the wetlands boardwalk […]
Come enjoy a spring stroll on May 19 at 9:30 a.m. through the northern hardwood forest at Berlin Mountain with botanist Robin Sears and naturalist Dana Williams of Williamstown Rural Lands. See what spring ephemerals are out and learn about these hardy early flowers. This will be a slow-paced ~ 1 mile out and back […]
Join Mary Hannah Parkman of the Williamstown Hemlock Monitoring Group and WRL naturalist Dana Williams for introduction to the Eastern Hemlock. We’ll cover the importance of Eastern Hemlocks to the forest, their historical significance to humans, threats to their populations, their status in Massachusetts, and the importance of community science. The talk will start out […]
Feeling helpless in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss? Want to take a break from the computer and get outside? Roll up your sleeves and join Williamstown Rural Lands in our effort to restore the local landscape! Come help us clear invasive multiflora rose from our field on Oblong Rd. on May 23 […]
Join Williamstown Rural Lands on Saturday, May 25 from 9 – 11:30 a.m. for a moderately strenuous, 4.5-mile hike across the Three Hills in Williamstown. Hike leader Dusty Griffin will guide participants up and over Tenney Hill, Bee Hill, and Foxcroft Hill in the Taconic Trail State Park which includes travel along the old Turnpike, […]
Join Williamstown Rural Lands and certified Tai Chi instructor Mary Hannah Parkman on May 25 from 9:30 – 11 a.m. to learn the art of mindful movement through Tai Chi. Mary Hannah will guide participants in slow-paced movements that encourage mindfulness and thereby deepen capacity for connection with self, the natural world and one another. […]
Connect with nature through the mindful movement of Tai Chi. Join Williamstown Rural Lands and certified Tai Chi instructor Mary Hannah Parkman on June 8 from 9:30 – 11 a.m. at the top of Sheep Hill (Bee Hill Rd., Williamstown). Mary Hannah will guide participants in slow-paced movements that encourage mindfulness and thereby deepen the […]
