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Planning to enter a juried photo exhibition? Terry Donofrio will share some helpful tips for preparing and editing your photos. Terry will conduct a Zoom presentation to help photographers prepare their photos for a juried photographic exhibition. (2022 Voices for the Marsh) The presentation will start with general guidelines for outdoor photography including selecting photo […]

For our end of year, in our between the holidays meeting, we'll be trying something different.  Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer is a spy novel that confronts some of the ecological crises that we face today. “ Jeff VanderMeer’s 13th novel, Hummingbird Salamander is an enigmatic eco-thriller that delivers in the same vein and on […]

This month we’ll be reading the award winning memoir by J. Drew Lanham -  The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature “I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers in its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of […]

Did you know that the Mercer County Park Commission Stewardship Team is looking for citizen scientists to help them provide data to guide restoration project decisions? iNaturalist is a citizen science tool used both by the Stewardship Team and the Friends for the Abbott Marshlands to understand the distribution of species. If you enjoy visiting […]

The Quirky and Curmudgeonly C.C. Abbott - A Virtual Talk by Carolyn Dillian Join us for a presentation by Carolyn Dillian, who along with Charles Bello, authored the recently published “Misadventures in Archaeology: The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott”. According to the Penn Press website, “Through various sources including archival letters and diaries, […]

Lichens are everywhere but often overlooked. Did you know there are 175 different kinds of lichen in Mercer County alone? Join lichenologist Dennis Waters to learn where to find lichens in Mercer County Parks and how to recognize the common ones. You'll also learn about their interesting lifestyles and ecological importance. Register Here.