Join the Squam Lakes Association (SLA) on Saturday April 5 from 1-3 to learn all about soil! We will learn about the three major types of soil: sand, silt, and clay at the SLA headquarters. There will be a focus on gardening and soil health just in time for spring! Participants will learn how to identify the soils you have in your backyard and all the benefits of a good healthy soil.
It's time for gardening and spring flowers! Help us transform our pollinator gardens into prime habitat for bees, birds, and bats and learn about what makes pollinator gardens so special.
Join us from 2 pm - 4 pm as we hike around 2.0 miles up Old Bridle Path to the Rattlesnake lookout learning all about Fire Ecology from SLA's Corbin Faidley. Fire plays an important role in our ecosystems, learn about some of the plants and animals' adaptations to this element.
This will be a 2.0-mile hike through Belknap woods looking for mushrooms! Mushrooms love wet weather and spring temperature so come prepared for some awesome finds. Participants will gain an understanding of the life cycle and life strategies fungi have for reproducing and surviving as well as appreciating the diversity found in northeastern forests.
We will hike around 3 miles through the Five Finger Point using Merlin and bird ID books to hopefully spot some birds and add to participants lifer lists. If you are an experienced birder please join! If you have no experience birding we’ll teach out the basic about what to look for when ID-ing a bird.
Join the Squam Lakes Association (SLA) on an exploration through Chamberlain Reynolds Memorial Forest on Sunday, June 1st from 10:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m. learning about scientific drawings. During the hike you will learn about the history and use of scientific drawing and be walked through the process of creating your own based on the surrounding environment.
Come join us as we learn about forest pathology! We will identify cankers, wilts, foliar diseases and some fungi on this 2.5 mile hike around Chamberlain Renyolds memorial forest.
Come join us on a 2.0 mile hike around Belknap wood to identify and learn about different moss species. On July 19 from 10:00 pm to 12:00 pm Squam Lakes Conservation Corps member Emma Murray will lead an exploratory hike about mosses.
Do you want to learn more about navigating Squam Lake? Are you camping on our public islands and want to get more comfortable navigating a canoe with camping supplies? Join the Squam Lakes Association (SLA) on an out and back paddle to Moon and Bowman islands on Saturday, July 26th from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm. During our paddle we’ll go over how to navigate open water, identify the Squam islands, learn how safely canoe, and explore the islands trails and beaches.
Join the Squam Lakes Association for a morning of hiking and learning about the Japanese poetry form known as haiku. This is a great program for anyone looking to appreciate nature using a fun and simple poetry form. If you enjoy creative expression and hiking, we hope to have you join us for this program!
