A relatively easy one-mile loop through mixed forest to a stream-crossed vale at the foot of the Palmertown Mountains.  Thousands of Spring Beauty flowers pave the forest floor here, along with other lovely spring wildflowers [...]

Celebrate Arbor Day at the 2nd Annual Arbor Day Festival with ECOS, Schenectady County Soil and Water Conservation District, ReTree Schenectady, the NYS Urban Forestry Council, and SiCM's urban farmers at SiCM's Vale Farm (907 [...]

"Especially Birding" A special birding opportunity in the H.G. Bird Sanctuary, a Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club sanctuary.  Its woods, dunes, and wetlands also include a variety of flowers as well as ferns, mosses, and giant trees.  [...]

FRIDAY, May 3 leader: Ruth Brooks

Casual social with lemonade & cookies while we informally talk about healthy yards, what ECOS is doing, and take a walk up the street to look at a neighbor & friend of Gillian’s native plantings. [...]