Awake & ready to visit @hitchcocknature for an early morning Walkabout. Wonder what we’ll discover @ New Tree School? pic.twitter.com/NtDkgwtGFk
— Robert Smith (@NebraskaSower) August 24, 2013
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Fall 2013 EIP
Changes and addtions have been made to the Fall EIP course offerings:
New time: October 26, Tree Planting Ecology and Practice will meet from 9:00am – noon. The tuition has been reduced to $45.00. The planting site will be ready in November for a tree-planting practicum.
New Addition to the EIP schedule: New England Forest in Winter: Diversity, Ecology, and Phenology with Howard Eyre (Delaware Valley College) and Kevin T. Smith, Ph.D. (US Forest Service). December 15 -16, Durham, New Hampshire. This session is open only to current EIP students. Contact Jack Phillips for more details.
Wild Sweet Ecology
Friends and Colleagues,
I’ve been reading again Thoreau’s Wild Fruits. It begins:
“Most of us are still related to our native fields as the navigator to undiscovered islands in the sea. We can any afternoon discover a new fruit there which will surprise us by its beauty or sweetness.”
Ecological Immersion is about discovering sweetness. And the August session will take us to one of my favorite places at Hitchcock Nature Center. The streamside habitat we will explore with our guides Neal Ratzlaff and Eric Scholar is particularly fertile and verdant, standing sharp contrast to the higher climes we’ve previously enjoyed. It bears a particular sweetness.
Visit www.newtreeschool.org to review details of the August 24th EIP. It is important that you let me know by Wednesday the 21st that you plan to attend. I will have special instructions for those who register.
You will love this session. Just let me know. jackphillipsrca@gmailcom