Wednesday, March 27, 1:38pm by Malin Clyde The Picture Post project has ended, the website is down, and it will not be restored. What does this mean for citizen science?
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Friday, February 16, 3:34pm by Charlotte Thompson Nature Groupie Features Make it Even Easier to Host a Good Event
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Friday, August 12, 9:10am by Malin Clyde Nature Groupie has a new feature designed to help volunteer managers listing new experiences on our website calendar.
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Tuesday, November 24, 1:49pm by Grace McCulloch Summer intern Grace provides insights and tips for first time outdoor volunteers.
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Thursday, January 4, 10:19am by Malin Clyde A new 100% online course in choosing and using citizen and community science will launch in fall 2024. Sign up to get notifications and learn more.
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Monday, August 7, 2:51pm by Jason Reyes What is a conservation commission and what do they do?
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Monday, August 7, 2:20pm by Maddy Smith What is a beaver deceiver, how does it work and how do you install one?
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Monday, August 7, 2:12pm by Daniel Ehrsam NH Fish & Game works to care for endangered butterflies in NH and what you can do to help.
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Monday, August 7, 12:32pm by Samantha Giudice How to identify poison ivy and a common look-a-like.
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Introducing the Nature Groupie Stewardship Interns for 2023: Jason, Daniel, Maddy & Sam!
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Monday, March 27, 2:38pm by Malin Clyde , Charlotte Thompson April 2 is the start of UNH's 603 Challenge, where all gifts to Nature Groupie's Internship Program are matched 100%, until funds last.
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Thursday, September 1, 2:17pm by Emily Wood Learn how to identify the different birch tree species.
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Thursday, September 1, 1:06pm by Daniel Persico Tips for how to be considerate of wildlife while exploring nature.
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Monday, August 15, 11:28am by Malian Jennings If you find yourself outside in nature and notice an organism that is unfamiliar, unusual, or cool looking, I highly recommend Seek. SEEK IT!
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Introducing the Nature Groupie Stewardship Interns for 2022: Malian Jennings, Daniel Persico & Emily Wood!
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Thursday, August 26, 11:00am by Joan Griswold Pod picking of black swallow-wort reaches annual milestone at Marginal Way in Oqunquit, ME
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Tips we wished we’d known at the beginning of the summer to hopefully help others who want (or need) to explore NH's Salt Marshes in the summer!
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Introducing the Nature Groupie Stewardship Interns for 2021: Sydney Gendreau, Julia Matthews and Olivia Pitta!
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Sunday, April 11, 4:47pm by Malin Clyde What does the research say works to get trail users to clean up after their dog?
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Tuesday, April 6, 4:38pm by Charlotte Thompson Litterati is a free app that identifies, maps and collects the worlds litter. Learn how you can use this easy to use app and contribute to the Great NE Cleanup!
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Monday, February 1, 9:44am by Emma Tutein Tips for taking good photographs out in the field.
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Monday, September 21, 2:39pm by Malin Clyde Using Kickstarter, our Nature Groupie team is launching Nature Groupie gear, with profits creating a sustainable foundation for our work with environmental volunteers.
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Tuesday, June 23, 12:52pm by Malin Clyde Top 7 tips for safe outdoor volunteering during COVID-19
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Wednesday, June 17, 4:55pm by Emily Chen , Grace McCulloch , Owen Hill Introducing the Nature Groupie Stewardship Interns for 2020: Emily Chen, Owen Hill, and Grace McCulloch
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Monday, May 11, 4:06pm by Charlotte Thompson Leashing your dog helps make sure they stay safe and healthy on trail during COVID-19.
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Friday, May 8, 2:09pm by Malin Clyde Collected resources developed by UNH Extension and other organizations in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Wednesday, April 22, 1:30pm by Charlotte Thompson Together, we can still have a big impact for Earth Day 2020!
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Tuesday, April 7, 1:28pm by Charlotte Thompson Creative delights from the conservation community to bring smiles during a time of social-distancing.
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Monday, April 6, 3:51pm by Charlotte Thompson How a backyard exploration with iNaturalist as part of a "socially distant bioblitz" connected staff member Charlotte Thompson to people across the world, and ultimately, more to home.
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Monday, February 17, 11:25am by Malin Clyde Did you know the first Earth Day happened 50 years ago in 1970?
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Wednesday, February 12, 1:34pm by Malin Clyde Nature Groupie launches quarterly survey to get feedback from volunteers.
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Thursday, December 19, 2:20pm by Charlotte Thompson As 2019 winds down, we are taking a moment to look back at yet another busy, fun and impactful year of Nature Groupie!
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Friday, November 15, 12:20pm by Malin Clyde Want to get the most out of posting your event on the Nature Groupie online calendar? We've seen what works and what doesn't over six years and thousands of experiences posted by hundreds of groups. Check out our tips.
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Friday, June 28, 10:53am by Gus Muscato Beavers are arguably New England's number one rodent, but do you know all the telltale signs that there's a beaver in your neighborhood?
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Friday, April 19, 2:46pm by Malin Clyde May 19 is the start of UNH's 603 Challenge, where all gifts to Nature Groupie are matched 100%, until funds last.
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Thursday, March 28, 3:41pm by Malin Clyde Volunteers will find new features on the Nature Groupie website that help identify the perfect volunteer opportunity.
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Thursday, March 21, 10:19am by Malin Clyde Learn about the new features offered in the updated Nature Groupie website.
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Friday, January 4, 3:34pm by Jill Ketchen New England cottontail conservation effort brings UNH researchers and citizen scientists together
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Thursday, December 6, 1:21pm by Emily Lord Get outside and get involved with any of these citizen science projects this winter
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Monday, November 26, 3:17pm by Sarah Schaier Free online training guides make it easy for anyone to organize a volunteer training workshop, learn best practices or simply brush up on their skills.
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Thursday, August 16, 3:53pm by Alaina Rogers , Drew Parker 2018 Nature Groupie summer interns Alaina and Drew recap their final weeks working for Nature Groupie
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Monday, August 13, 4:14pm by Diane DeVries Summer intern Diane engaged nature volunteers and supported conservation partners during her internship at Nature Groupie in 2018. Here she shares photos of a workday on Mt. Washington!
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Monday, July 30, 4:10pm by Drew Parker , Alaina Rogers Drew and Alaina have been doing a crazy amount of work in the last few weeks! Enjoy the variety of projects they've been working on with our partners, Moreno Forestry, SELT, Gulls of Appledore, and the Town of Durham.
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Monday, June 18, 3:42pm by Alaina Rogers , Drew Parker Working with New Hampshire State endangered wildlife species as Nature Groupie interns for outdoor volunteers in New England.
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Summer interns with Nature Groupie worked on stewardship and outreach.
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Thursday, April 26, 4:46pm by Brett Amy Thelen A wood frog makes her way across North Lincoln Street in Keene, NG. This year, she'll have a little extra help.
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Friday, April 13, 3:31pm by Malin Clyde This year, the Stewardship Network: New England became Nature Groupie. We made the change to reach new people. How is it working so far?
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Monday, March 5, 5:12pm by Emily Lord Tips to help your community cope with mud season
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Wednesday, January 31, 5:31pm by Andrew Welsh Volunteers stepped up to help assess the damage in the White Mountain National Forest
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Monday, January 15, 11:17am by Malin Clyde Good trail signs can help connect people to conserved lands. Check out these examples.
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Saturday, January 6, 10:55am by Kathy Schillemat A volunteer's own words on why she helps shepherd salamanders to safety each spring.
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Tuesday, January 2, 11:27am by Malin Clyde We are launching a new brand to reflect the joy of volunteering outdoors in New England. Check it out!
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Tuesday, November 7, 11:46am by Malin Clyde Borrow stewardship tools for free from a new Seacoast, NH-based library
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Tuesday, October 17, 11:54am by Larry Clow NH Rabbit Reports seeks rabbit sightings from citizen scientists
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Tuesday, October 3, 12:17pm by Linda Schier Dozens of students and over 40 community members identified and mapped plant and animal species at the Province Lake Golf Course
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Monday, August 14, 3:37pm by Morgan Martelle Summer intern Morgan Martell's final reflections at the end of her ten week internship.
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Monday, August 14, 3:09pm by Morgan Martelle Summer intern Morgan Martell shares stories about the second half of her internship.
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Saturday, August 5, 12:44pm by Ellen Snyder Conservation partners and advanced volunteers needed to stop the spread of this tough invasive
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Friday, August 4, 12:58pm by Malin Clyde Extension staff share their favorite citizen science ideas from the Citizen Science conference in St. Paul, MN
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Monday, July 10, 2:58pm by Morgan Martelle Summer intern Morgan Martell has spent the past two weeks mapping trails for Trail Finder.
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Monday, June 19, 2:27pm by Morgan Martelle Summer intern Morgan Martell worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the first two weeks of her internship.
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Tuesday, June 6, 10:45am by Kelley McDonnell Intern Kelley McDonnell ran a Garlic Mustard Challenge pull with 40 middle schoolers and staff.
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Wednesday, March 29, 3:49pm by Emily Lord Who uses Nature Groupie, and what trends do our data show about volunteers and stewardship?
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Wednesday, March 29, 10:54am by Kelley McDonnell Are you ready to pull plants for the next challenge?
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Tuesday, March 28, 11:38am by Malin Clyde In 2016, the Network conducted a research effort to better understand how our conservation partners use and value Nature Groupie (formerly the Stewardship Network: New England).
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Tuesday, February 14, 11:31am by Emily Lord UNH Graduate Student and Dalyrmple Community Engagement Fellow, Holly Fosher worked to increase public access to local trail maps.
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Tuesday, January 3, 4:08pm by Emily Lord 22% of New England’s native plants are rare or deemed historic. These volunteers give their time to help conserve and promote native plants.
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Friday, October 21, 11:40am by Emily Lord In early October, volunteers gathered in Swanzey, New Hampshire to put the finishing touches on a stream restoration project that put citizen science into action.
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Tuesday, September 27, 12:08pm by Malin Clyde Malin Clyde, Project Manager for the Network, co-authors a new paper about citizen science in the Journal of Biological Conservation
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Monday, September 19, 12:24pm by Evelyn Jones Our summer intern in citizen science, Megan Verfaillie, was a key contributor to a collaborative research effort this summer
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Wednesday, September 14, 12:42pm by Gabe Roxby Picture Posts create opportunities for people to collaborate on environmental monitoring projects like this one by sharing digital photos
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Friday, August 12, 1:55pm by Megan Verfaillie Summer intern Megan Verfaillie shares some of her most memorable moments from the 2016 summer.
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Friday, August 12, 1:32pm by Amanda Cugno Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares experiences mapping trails, going to the Isles of Shoals, and helping out Bear-Paw Regional Greenways.
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Friday, July 29, 1:43pm by Megan Verfaillie Summer intern Megan Verfaille's take on the UNH Storm Watchers project.
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Friday, July 29, 1:23pm by Amanda Cugno Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares her experiences helping map trails for TrailFinder.
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Thursday, July 14, 1:10pm by Amanda Cugno Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares experiences with Bear-Paw boundaries and butterflies and bunnies with NH Fish & Game.
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Tuesday, July 12, 3:31pm by Whitney Bushey This deceptively simple structure keeps hiker's feet dry and protects soft soils and wetlands.
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Friday, July 1, 12:14pm by Megan Verfaillie From beach grass to water sampling, here's a few things I've learned here in my first month working with UNH!
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Friday, June 24, 11:49am by Megan Verfaillie Summer intern Megan Verfaillie shares her experience working on water quality in Great Bay.
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Thursday, June 23, 11:26am by Amanda Cugno Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares stories from working with Southeast Land Trust and UNH Office of Woodlands and Natural Areas.
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Tuesday, May 3, 1:39pm by Carrie Deegan Volunteers get hooked on leading nature walks on neighborhood conservation land
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Tuesday, May 3, 1:30pm by Emily Lord Pruning a trail is maintenance often done by volunteers, but sometimes deciding whether to cut branches or a whole tree can be tricky.
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Saturday, April 16, 2:01pm by Dr. Tom Lee Take a closer look at this invasive forest plant and learn how to prevent its spread.
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Monday, April 11, 8:39am by Haley Andreozzi Celebrating 2 years of The Stewardship Network: New England with 22 of our favorite photos.
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Monday, March 21, 9:23am by Emily Lord What do conservation easement monitors do to help steward the land?
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Friday, March 4, 9:59am by Laura Deming Citizen scientists help generate data that is essential for researchers and managers in their efforts to protect bat species.
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Tuesday, March 1, 10:12am by Emily Lord Embark on a journey to better know Northeast trees by their bark.
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Wednesday, February 3, 4:47pm by Emma Tutein Learn more about the land you care about and the wildlife who use it.
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Friday, January 8, 10:26am by Alyson Eberhardt We all have an intuitive sense of phenology. What does that mean and how can we take a closer look at these subtle changes?
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Monday, December 14, 12:00pm by Emily Lord Look for these signs of the unsung trail heroes who steward our pathways through fields and forests.
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Monday, November 23, 12:28pm by Emily Lord Could I be a citizen scientist? A newbie spends the morning with the Coastal Research Volunteers and gets a taste for what citizen science is all about.
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Thursday, October 29, 12:38pm by Malin Clyde Students and community members from Durham and the Oyster River School District combined stewardship efforts in Beard's Creek this fall.
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Monday, October 26, 12:46pm by Haley Andreozzi A mammal-enthusiast spends the day helping to research fish for a stream in need
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Monday, October 5, 1:46pm by Malin Clyde Why do people volunteer for the environment? We're asking people who help at workdays, and learning what motivates people to give back.
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Tuesday, September 8, 8:15am by Evelyn Jones , Trina Lafata New Hampshire’s beautiful and highly rated 13 mile slice of the Atlantic coast is a popular vacation destination in New England. So how clean are its coastal beaches?
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Monday, August 24, 2:01pm by Joan Griswold How to mobilize a neighborhood to tackle an aggressive invasive plant.
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Sunday, August 9, 1:45pm by Tomás Nocera Summer intern Tomás Nocera writes about working with Phil Auger at the Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire in 2015.
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Friday, August 7, 1:29pm by Tomás Nocera Summer intern Tomás Nocera describes his field work with Bear Paw Regional Greenways in 2015.
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Monday, August 3, 2:44pm by Malin Clyde New Hampshire Lake Hosts continue to defend lakes from harmful invasive species
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Wednesday, July 15, 4:07pm by Tomás Nocera For summer intern Tomás Nocera, working at Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge never provided a dull day.
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Monday, July 6, 3:49pm by Ellen Snyder Community volunteers joined Conservation Commission members to help restore forestland at Little Harbor on June 22.
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Wednesday, June 24, 4:49pm by Robin Bell New Coverts volunteer Robin Bell reflects on her experience at the 2015 NH Coverts Project Workshop.
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Friday, June 19, 3:57pm by Tomás Nocera Summer intern Tomás Nocera works with Steve Eisenhaure and the Woodlands and Natural Areas Office.
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Thursday, June 11, 3:15pm by Trina Lafata , Tomás Nocera Navigating through the woods with a compass and a map.
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Thursday, June 4, 3:01pm by Ellen Snyder Count migrating eels in coastal rivers, document flowering and fruiting times of alpine plants
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Thursday, May 14, 3:20pm by Emma Tutein A small frog springs forward in front of my foot as we wrestle with a large, bright-orange “weed wrench,” a metal tool that helps pull invasive shrubs out of the ground.
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Tuesday, April 28, 3:29pm by Yvonne Beran To a group of volunteers in the Monadnock Region, the words ”Big Night” are a big deal.
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Wednesday, April 22, 10:03am by Ellen Snyder A UNH class project on Lake Chocorua in 1978 launched one of the most successful and long-lasting volunteer environmental monitoring programs in the country: the NH Lakes Lay Monitoring Program (LLMP). Every summer hundreds of lake monitors collect water samples from lakes across New Hampshire, helping to ensure our lakes are healthy.
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Tuesday, March 31, 10:13am by Gabriela Bradt Millions of plastic fragments including styrofoam cups and containers, plastic bags and packaging, cigarette filters, and other sources, are pervasive on our beaches.
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Wednesday, March 4, 3:07pm by Ellen Snyder Volunteers in the seacoast and Merrimack Valley of New Hampshire are snowshoeing along field and wetland edges and crawling into dense brush looking for rabbit pellets.
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Monday, February 9, 10:21am by Ellen Snyder Are you hearing more woodpeckers than usual tapping in your woods? If so, you might want to follow the sounds and look at the trees they are chiseling.
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Monday, February 2, 10:31am by Craig Sanborn A safe way to lift heavy logs, submitted by trails volunteer Craig Sanborn of the Cardigan Highlands Volunteer Trail Crew.
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Monday, January 26, 10:37am by Malin Clyde A new grant from the NH Charitable Foundation will support training programs for stewardship volunteers in New Hampshire.
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Thursday, December 18, 2:50pm by Haley Andreozzi NH Coverts Project volunteers promote wildlife habitat conservation and forest stewardship in more than 150 New Hampshire communities.
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Thursday, December 18, 10:49am by Ellen Snyder How many people does it take to carry a 20-foot long pressure treated, nearly 200-pound pine pole 200 feet across uneven, soft, wet, muddy ground?
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Saturday, December 6, 8:27am by Ellen Snyder Winter is my favorite time of year to watch birds, and it's a great time to participate in volunteer bird surveys such as the Christmas Bird Count and Mid-winter Bald Eagle Survey.
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Friday, November 21, 8:46am by Ellen Snyder New Hampshire has the unfortunate distinction of being the state with the highest incidence of Lyme disease in the country, a disease transmitted by the blacklegged tick.
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Friday, November 7, 9:06am by Ellen Snyder In late October more than 50 volunteers gathered on the Newbury sand dunes on Plum Island to plant beachgrass.
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Monday, October 27, 9:33am by Emily Lord I spent my last sunny afternoon of Indian summer in the Seacoast on the edge of the Great Bay in Newmarket, NH.
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Wednesday, October 8, 10:02am by Malin Clyde The Town of Durham and NRCS partner to deploy a new tool for invasive shrub removal.
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Thursday, September 25, 10:18am by Loren Valliere The Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program is excited to announce the release of its updated online reporting system, NH Wildlife Sightings.
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Monday, September 8, 10:30am by Ellen Snyder In early July I met up with consultant Mike Bald (GotWeeds?) as he was walking a roadside in Norwich, Vermont.
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Sunday, August 31, 3:05pm by Joanna Lewis Summer intern Jo Lewis spent her last two weeks with the NRCS doing easement monitoring baseline reports and eating blueberries.
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Wednesday, August 20, 10:57am by Alicia Carlson I was somewhere I wouldn’t normally be on a Sunday morning in August—sitting in a canoe on Weirs Beach at the edge of Lake Winnipesaukee.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2:55pm by Lisa Demaine Summer intern Lisa Demaine's shares news of her summer spent working with UNH Extension and NH Sea Grant.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2:42pm by Joanna Lewis Summer intern Jo Lewis spent two weeks with the UNH Office of Woodlands and Natural Areas summer crew doing a variety of projects, including forest inventory, building bridges, and marking lots of trees.
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Friday, July 25, 11:04am by Ellen Snyder In late April, 50 people from 14 towns assembled at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH for a Garlic Mustard Muster.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2:30pm by Joanna Lewis Summer intern Jo Lewis spent two weeks with the New Castle Conservation Commission eradicating invasive plants and creating outreach documents.
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Friday, July 11, 11:19am by Lisa Demaine Oyster restoration in Great Bay was helped by volunteer oyster-counters all this week. Network intern Lisa Demaine tells what she learned on a day at the docks.
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Monday, July 7, 5:00pm by Joanna Lewis Summer intern Jo Lewis spent a week on the Isles of Shoals to assist in tern research with the UNH Cooperative Extension.
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Monday, June 30, 2:03pm by Lisa Demaine Forty 4H teens from across NH helped tackle the glossy buckthorn invasion of UNH’s College Woods as part of the annual NH 4-H Teen Conference.
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Thursday, June 26, 1:56pm by Kyle Farr A dense stand of invasive plants is intimidating. And so are 150 high school students armed with clippers, weed-wrenches, and work gloves.
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Wednesday, June 18, 11:12am by Joanna Lewis Summer intern Jo Lewis spent her first week with the Property Manager of Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire maintaining conserved properties.
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Sunday, June 15, 1:44pm by C. Ralph Adler Citizen scientist volunteers have been posted at rivers around Great Bay every weekday between May and July to count the numbers and health of the glass eel population.
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Tuesday, June 10, 3:40pm by Malin Clyde Perfect weather made for an outstanding volunteer workday at Great Bay this spring.
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Tuesday, June 10, 11:01am by Joanna Lewis Nature Groupie has an intern working with five different conservation partners this summer.
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Monday, May 19, 3:59pm by Malin Clyde Did you know that anyone can report populations of invasive plants and insects? These reports help stewardship managers plan removal projects and identify invasive hot spots.
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Monday, May 19, 3:53pm by Francie von Mertens Volunteer Francie von Mertens is working with the Well School, getting hands dirty pulling garlic mustard, an invasive plant that threats forests in southern New Hampshire.
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Wednesday, April 9, 11:27am by Malin Clyde Citizen scientists in southeastern N.H. are documenting small-scale impacts of climate change in their backyards and neighborhoods.
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Wednesday, March 26, 7:38am by Malin Clyde In New Hampshire, over a hundred and fifty trained volunteers are delivering wildlife presentations and leading nature walks in their communities as part of the Speaking for Wildlife Program, based at UNH Cooperative Extension. Learn how you can request a walk or talk in your community today.
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