ECOS: The Environmental Clearinghouse
April 20, 2025

Second Sunday Bird Walk: Peak Spring Migration Woodlawn Preserve

Woodlawn Preserve 441 Gifford Road, Schenectady, NY, United States

Peak Spring Migration! Join bird walk leader John Loz for a Spring Migration bird walk at this habitat known as the Schenectady Pine Barrens. For this walk we will look for spring migration songbirds, wading [...]

Spring Walk: Vale Park and Cemetery, Schenectady

Vale Urban Farm

This walk will focus on trees, wildflowers, ferns, and mushrooms (if we find any!). Vale Cemetery is an historic "rural" cemetery that opened in 1857 with the planting of over 1,000 trees. Today, it is [...]

Connecting Tots to Nature

Central Park Schenectady 500 Iroquois Way, Schenectady

Beginning April 2 and running through June 18, ‘Connecting Tots to Nature’ meets every Wednesday from 10:00-10:45 a.m. in Schenectady's Central Park. We meet under the trees next to the playground, across from the future [...]

Zoom Speaker Series: Don’t Get Ticked!

Avoiding Lyme and other tick-borne diseases requires avoiding a tick bite! Join the New York State Integrated Pest Program's Joellen Lampman as she talks about the different ticks in our area and their biology, the diseases [...]

Spring Walk: Winn Preserve, Knox

Winn Preserve - Knox, NY Winn Preserve, Street Road, Altamont, Knox, NY

This is a beautiful wooded preserve with low to medium-effort trails that wind through ferns and shady forests. Limestone fissures, rock outcroppings, and cliffs demonstrate the limestone karst geology of the Helderberg Escarpment. Leader: Debra [...]