Give to the Harvard Conservation Trust and double your impact For 50 years the Harvard Conservation Trust (HCT) has worked to preserve and protect the scenic beauty and rich wildlife that makes Harvard extraordinary. What started as a small group of concerned residents in 1973 preserving the first three-acre parcel of land has grown into …
Save the Date: Harvard Conservation Trust Storybook Trail, September 10-30 Introduce your children to the wonders of spending time in the woods with Harvard Conservation Trust’s Storybook Trail, featuring Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson. What: Storybook Trail walk When: September 10 – September 30. Drop in at your convenience (open dawn until …
Harvard Conservation Trust is partnering with Fivesparks to celebrate art and nature with the Destination:Nature Juried Art Show. Regional artists are invited to submit works inspired by Harvard’s conservation land. Artists – both those who create in plein air environments as well as studio artists and all artists who are inspired by nature are encouraged …
Guest Speaker Lindsay Randall, Expert on Local Indigenous Peoples Harvard, MA and the broader Nashoba Valley have a deep and rich indigenous history that spans over 15,000 years to the present day. HCT is pleased to announce that Lindsay Randall, Curator of Education and Outreach at the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology at Phillips …
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAU2naemki4[/embedyt] Watch Prof. Robert Thorson’s Presentation On Stone Walls. The Harvard Conservation Trust is excited to share the video of last week’s Speaker Series: Mysteries of Harvard’s Stone Walls Solved. Prof. Robert Thorson helped us understand why New England is only place in the US you find over stone walls. We have over 240,000 …
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Introduce your children to the wonders of spending time in the woods with HCT’s inaugural storybook trail, featuring Owl Moon, the children’s book by Jane Yolen. Now open from March 15th – April 2nd, you’ll find the start of the walk at the Brown-Burgess Land trailhead entrance at the end of Murray Lane …
This year our traditional HCT New Year’s Day Walk will be modified in keeping with best practices for safety during the pandemic. We are hosting a Poetry Walk on the Burgess-Brown land, and participants are advised to walk alone or in small groups that maintain appropriate social distance. A favorite HCT trail traverses this landscape …
For those who may have missed it, the 2020 Annual Meeting was one of the best attended anyone can remember. Nearly 70 individuals joined our Zoom meeting, and all learned something new about how mycorrhizal relationships work, how trees share, and how fungal species establish relationships with plants while avoiding other fungus. We also learned …
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