Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
PO Box 173, 23 Science Center Road,
Holderness, NH 03245
Tel: 603-968-7194
www.nhnature.org
PRESS RELEASE
JULY, 2010 PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
For Immediate Release: July 12, 2010
Christine Cherry, 603-968-7194 x34 or christine.cherry@nhnature.org
Absolutely Positively Wild about Mud
Tuesday August 3, 12 - 2:30 p.m.
Holderness, NH – The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center will host a fun and muddy program (appropriate for ages 7-10) on mud. Embark on a mud trek and investigate what mud is made of and experience its soft texture while searching for the creatures that live in it. Conduct interesting and fun mud experiments along the way, culminating in each participant creating and painting their own mud t-shirt. Join Naturalist Eric D’Aleo for a muddy morning of excitement, discovery, and fun.
Cost: $8/member; $10/non-member
Pre-registration required – call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org.
Solar Energy – Why Now is the Right Time
Tuesday, August 3, 7 p.m.
Holderness, NH - The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center will host James Gamble, owner of GreenSource Energy Solutions, who will provide an introduction about how to harness solar energy to make electricity and hot water. The discussion will include an overview of the latest solar technologies, applicability of solar in New Hampshire, typical costs, financial incentives, and local examples.
Cost: Free
Pre-registration requested – call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org. Or call: 603-968-7194
Evaluating Your Garden: Taking Stock, Taking Action
Thursday, August 5, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Holderness, NH - The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center will host garden designer Doug Gagne, APLD ~ Professional Landscape Designer, of The Mixed Border Nursery and Gardens in Hollis, NH, who will present an informative outdoor session on garden design and redesign. Participants will learn how to evaluate an existing garden and how to make it more attractive through the seasons while requiring less maintenance. All gardeners are welcome, although this workshop is targeted at experienced gardeners. Bring photos of your garden, if you’d like, especially if weather is inclement.
Cost: $10/member; $12/non-member
Sponsored by Belknap Landscape Company, Gilford, NH, www.belknaplandscape.com
Pre-registration required – call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org
Let’s Go Fishing
Saturday, August 7, 1 - 4 p.m.
Age 10-12
Holderness, NH - Join NH Fish and Game and Squam Lakes Natural Science Center to learn the basic skills and equipment you need and the resources available to you on your journey to becoming an angler. Once you know the basics you’ll get the chance to put your new skills to the test. Participants and guides will head out to a local pond and do some fishing! All equipment and materials are provided.
Cost: $9/member; $11/non-member
Pre-registration required – call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org
Ponds and Puddles
Tuesday, August 10, 2:00 . – 4:00 p.m.
Holderness, NH – Join Squam Lakes Natural Science Center for this interactive family program (for children 4 and older) and discover life that you may have not noticed before. The lakes, ponds, streams, and even puddles that surround us are teaming with many forms of life. Join a Science Center Naturalist to explore and learn as participants venture to area ponds and meet creatures big and small!
Cost: $7/member; $9/non-member
Pre-registration is required, call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org.
Over and Under
Wednesday, August 11, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Holderness, NH – The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center invites you to attend this program with your children (ages 4 and up). There are so many interesting critters that we walk by and overlook every day. Participants will roll over logs, push back grass, and dip in to the water to search for the creatures that are just out of our usual line of sight.
Cost: $7/member; $9/non-member
Pre-registration is required, call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org.
Introduction to Permaculture – A Framework for Greater Food and Energy Security
Tuesday, August 17, 7 p.m.
Holderness, NH - The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center will host a permaculture workshop with Steve Whitman, Plymouth State University geography professor and senior planner with Jeffrey H. Taylor and Associates. He will discuss permaculture and why it is important to you. Learn what could it mean for your property and community and how it differs from other approaches to sustainability. This session is especially useful for homeowners, community organizers, design professionals, farmers, and gardeners. If you are working toward a sustainable future and want practical tools and applicable methodologies, then this session is for you!
Cost: Free
Pre-registration requested – call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org.
Coyote Day
Saturday, August 21
All Ages
Holderness, NH - If you are fascinated by your own sightings of Coyotes or hear them in your neighborhood, come and meet the Science Center’s resident Coyote up close! Find out what is myth or fact about Coyotes. Volunteer docents will be on the Gephart Exhibit Trail with hands-on Coyote props. Visit the Science Center’s hands-on Coyote display in the Mead Discovery Place. See the world from a Coyote’s perspective!
No reservations required.
Cost: free/member; $13/adults, $9/youth, age 2 and under free/non-member
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org.Bird Identification Series: Shorebirds
Sunday, August 29 7 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Age 16 and up
Holderness, NH - This birding trip led by Squam Lakes Natural Science Center’s Executive Director Iain MacLeod will focus on the dozens of species of sandpipers and plovers that pass through New England’s coastal habitats on their southbound migration. The group will meet at the Science Center and travel (by van) to New Hampshire’s seacoast and Massachusetts’s Plum Island for a spectacular show that should include Semi-palmated Sandpipers, Dunlin, Red Knot, Whimbrel, Least Sandpipers, Willets, Short-billed Dowitcher, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, and maybe a Godwit or two.
Cost: $30/member; $40/non-member
Pre-registration is required, call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org.
Ongoing Events
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center is accepting registrations for the Blue Heron Preschool
Holderness, NH – The Blue Heron Preschool, a nature-based Montessori early learning center and NH’s first Nature Preschool, will be opening in the fall of 2010 at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. This unique preschool will integrate two very successful and innovative educational philosophies. The learning environment will apply the educational philosophies of Maria Montessori who believed that the early years, the period from birth to age six, is the time when a child’s intelligence is formed, and when her or his natural curiosity and love for knowledge is awakened. The second educational approach at the Blue Heron Preschool will focus on nature-based education with the goal to provide opportunities for children to interact with various natural communities and living things. It is strongly believed that through these interactions, children begin to connect to the natural world on a deep level and grow to care about the environment because they feel they are a part of, not separate from, the natural world in which they live. Research indicates that daily, unstructured, outdoor play is essential to child development. Nature actively engages children’s senses and provides opportunities for the physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual growth of each child. “Nature and Science Centers across the country are finding that by adding a preschool to their programs they are greatly advancing their mission. Nature Preschools bring many benefits with the most important being that the children have the opportunity to very early on, closely experience the natural world.” Stated Education Program Director, Amy Yeakel
A typical day at Blue Heron Preschool will include group time with stories, music, games and discussion, snack, lunch, an extended work time — where children are free to select and concentrate on appropriate activities in the classroom, and a substantial period outdoors with both unstructured time and facilitated activities.
The Blue Heron Preschool will be open to children ages 3-6, Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The school will provide affordable tuition, excellent child to instructor ratios, and a unique and innovative learning experience for your child.
For information, please contact
Education Program Director Amy Yeakel at
603-968-7194 x 14 or email blueheron@nhnature.org
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center’s Trails Open Daily
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Holderness, N.H. – The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center trails are open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (last admission 3:30 p.m.) through November 1. Admission includes access to the ¾-mile Gephart Exhibit Trail, where visitors can enjoy and learn from exhibits, which feature live native New Hampshire wildlife in natural settings. The exhibits include Mountain Lion, Black Bear, Red Fox, Fisher, White-tailed Deer, River Otter, Striped Skunk, Bald Eagle, Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, Red-shouldered Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk and American kestrel. Visitors may also enjoy a stroll through Kirkwood Gardens and, in July and August, watch five-times-daily live animal programs featuring a variety of other animals including Beaver, Opossum, Woodchuck, Coyote, Snakes, and Turtles, as well as variety of owls, hawks, and falcons.
For more details about events, admission fees, upcoming programs, lake cruises, and membership go to www.nhnature.org or call 603-968-7194.
StoryWalk ™
July 1 - 31 and August 1-31
Holderness, NH - Holderness Library, Holderness Recreation Department, and Squam Lakes Natural Science Center have joined forces for a family-oriented StoryWalk™ featuring the storybooks Bat Loves the Night (July 1 through July 31) and Nuts to You (August 1 through August 31). The StoryWalk™ will be located in a field behind the NH Fish & Game parking lot along Rt. 113 near downtown Holderness. Stop by the Science Center or Holderness Library for directions.
StoryWalk™ will kick off at 10 a.m. on July 1 with a program featuring live bats and activities for the whole family.
StoryWalk™ is generously sponsored by Innisfree Bookstores and Meredith Village Savings Bank.
Call 603-968-7194 to reserve your space for the July 1 program.
No reservations needed for the StoryWalk™.
Cost: free
Up Close to Animals
July and August
Hourly every day from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Holderness, NH – The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center has daily Up Close to Animals talks every hour on the hour from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. every day from July 1 to August 31. Each mini-talk will feature a live animal accompanied by a knowledgeable naturalists. Everyday five different animals, including birds, mammals, and reptiles, will be the main focus, with the schedule changing daily. The daily schedule will be posted at www.nhnature.org.
There is no cost for this program; it is free with your admission.
Garden Yoga
Thursdays, July 8-August 12
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Holderness, NH – The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center will host a Thursday evening yoga session in its Kirkwood Gardens. Relax and unwind from a busy day while strengthening your body, mind, and spirit. The class is open to all levels, welcoming both beginners and seasoned yogis. Learn sun salutations, warrior poses, balance poses as well as restorative poses and meditation. Bring a mat or large towel and water. Rain or Shine!
Cost: $48/member; $60/non-member for all six sessions or $12/person/session
Pre-registration is required, call 603-968-7194.
More details about this and other programs at www.nhnature.org.
Explore Squam Cruises
Holderness, NH – The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center’s Explore Squam lake cruises will run three daily cruises at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. from July 1 through October 17, with additional Nature of the Lakes Cruises on Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Thursdays from July 1 to October 14 at 4:00 p.m. A special Loon Cruise is available every Friday at 3:00 p.m through August 20.
For more details about events, admission fees, upcoming programs, lake cruises, and membership go to www.nhnature.org or call 603-968-7194.
About Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
The mission of Squam Lakes Natural Science Center) is to advance understanding of ecology by exploring New Hampshire’s natural world. Through spectacular live animal exhibits, natural science education programs, and lake cruises, the Science Center has educated and enlightened visitors for more than forty years about the importance of our natural world. Squam Lakes Natural Science Center is located on Route 113 in Holderness, an easy drive from exit 24 off I-93, and is open daily from May 1 through November 1. In September 2006, SLNSC gained national accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). This accreditation distinguishes Squam Lakes Natural Science Center as one of the very finest educational facilities of its kind throughout the nation and the only AZA-accredited institution in all of northern New England. For further information about the Science Center, call 603-968-7194 or visit www.nhnature.org.
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Christine Cherry
Marketing Manager
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
PO Box 173, 23 Science Center Road
Holderness, NH 03245
603-968-7194 x 34
603-968-2229 fax
www.nhnature.org
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