Conservation & Education

Inside Conservation & Education

Committee Members

  • Jennie VanderHooven

    Co-Chair

Updated October 3, 2024

About Conservation

For our purposes we can think of conservation as managing natural resources for the continuing benefit of all.

Send a Conservation Message To Your Elected Representative(s)

Your elected representatives need to be kept informed about conservation issues that are important to us.  The AMC Club’s “Take Action” pages have made this process relatively easy to select a current conservation item and send a message.

The NH-Chapter Take Action – Contact Elected Representatives page provides some information about composing your message for maximum effect, some descriptive material regarding each of the Club’s current conservation items, links to some ancillary information, and a direct link to the Club message page.  You may find this helpful before personalizing the Club message for stronger impact.

Goals

  • Enhance knowledge and enjoyment of the natural environment.
  • Stay informed about the issues facing the natural environment today.
  • Advocate for the environment through a variety of activities.

Activities

  • Outdoor experiential and informative activities for youth and adults.
  • Hikes with naturalists.
  • All activities are free of charge, unless otherwise noted on the schedule
  • All activities are open to the general public

How Do I Get Involved in Conservation?

  • Attend the activities!
  • Bring ideas to planning meetings!
  • Get involved in your local conservation efforts by calling your town or city hall and ask when the Conservation Commission meets.
  • Get involved in “Conservation Action Network” (CAN).
  • AMC Conservation Resources Protecting the Northeast Outdoors

Diana Moore, CoChair

Calendar

Conservation & Education Book Club: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Please join us virtually, as we discuss the best-selling book, "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future," by Elizabeth Kolbert. The author is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of "The Sixth Extinction."

From Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593136276/

In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.

One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.

Date
Thursday, January 9th 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Status
Open
Activities
Conservation
Region
Web Based
Committee
Conservation
Leader
Diana Moore
Registration is required for this activity.
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#154193
Under a White Sky

Effects of Climate Change on New Hampshire's Birds with Dr. Pamela Hunt

We are already seeing some of the effects of climate change in New Hampshire, with a trend toward warmer winters, more extreme weather, and drier summers. How will our birds - both breeding and migrant - be affected by these changes as they manifest over the next several decades? In most cases we don't know the answers, but there is often enough information to allow some informed speculation. In this talk, we explore subjects as diverse as range shifts, declining food supplies, and changes in migration patterns as they apply to the birds of New Hampshire. What will birders in the 22nd Century encounter in the Granite States forests, fields, and wetlands? Learn a little about the possibilities with senior biologist, Pamela Hunt, in conjunction with NH Audubon.

Date
Tuesday, February 4th 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Status
Open
Activities
Conservation
Location
NH Audubon McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH 03301
Region
New Hampshire, Merrimack Valley
Committee
Conservation
Leader
Diana Moore
Registration is required for this activity.
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#155622
Red-Headed Duck