Summer Forest Walk
Dalton, NH
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
About the Event
Join the Dannis Family and Master Naturalist,Dr. Rick Van de Poll, for a tour of a rich and diverse woodland in the upper Connecticut Valley region. The views alone are breathtaking not to mention the diversity of old growth forests and ridgeline habitats. https://abovethefifteenmilefalls.com/After our walk, we will discuss mushrooms around the table, where poisonous will be separated from edible, and medicinal will be highlighted.
Rick Van de Poll, Ph.D., is the principal of Ecosystem Management Consultants in Sandwich, NH, a company that since 1988 has offered natural resource management services throughout New England. With 40 years’ teaching experience, Dr. Van de Poll has completed natural resource inventories and management plans on over 325,000 acres in the Northeast. He is a member of the NH Plant Task Force, which surveys rare plant populations in NH, and is President of the Northeast Mycological Federation.
Space is limited, please register by emailing the Coös County Conservation District at carolyn.mcquiston@nh.nacdnet.net
Directions will be provided by return email to registered participants.
Participants should be prepared to walk in the woods, some of which is steep! Please come prepared with comfortable walking shoes, and dress for the weather. Rain or shine. The workshop is free.
