Spring Walk in Dalton
Dalton, NH
Saturday, May 11, 2019
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Calling all plant and mushroom lovers! If you or your family would love to walk in beautiful woods and discover the riches of spring beneath your feet, this walk is for you! Join master naturalist Dr. Rick Van de Poll for a tour of a rich and diverse woodland in the upper Connecticut Valley region. Witness the delicate colors and fragility of rare plants, learn about the bedrock and soils that help create this rich mesic forest, and discover the fascinating world of spring fungi that attends the coming of warm weather. We hope to find squirrel corn, maidenhair fern, blue cohosh, jack-in-the-pulpit and some fungi (morels, false morels, cup fungi, early polypores).
About
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.
Sponsored by the Coos County Conservation District, NRCS and the landowners, this gathering will hopefully inspire a series of regular offerings at this 1800 acre farm and forest in Dalton.
Registration
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 about a mile on woodlands trails, some of which are steep! Please come prepared with comfortable walking shoes, and dress for the weather. Rain or shine. (In case of a severe weather prediction, we will save a rain date, Sunday the 12th and be in touch with you on Friday).
The workshop and light refreshments are provided by our hosts at no charge.
Although there is no charge for this workshop, donations to support the Coös County Conservation District are always appreciated and will be accepted at the walk. The District helps coordinate and market these types of conservation projects in Coös County.
Web page of interest – Dr. Rick Van de Poll http://www.rickvandepol
