Each year National Moth Week highlights the ecological importance and incredible biodiversity of moths with locally sponsored “moth night” events across the country and around the world. Join us at ICNC this July for a night of discovery in celebration of NMW. We will set up a blacklight and use sugar baits to attract a variety of moths for us to identify, photograph, and discuss. Bring a headlamp or flashlight, a camera, and your curiosity. Mosquito repellent might be helpful as well.

Join staff from Nature Up North, Nicandri Nature Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Indian Creek Nature Center for a four part series on North Country Nature in Flight this summer. Learn how a variety of different animals use flight to their advantage, whether that’s for finding food, showing off to others, or just getting around. Throughout this series we’ll learn to see the skies and its flying critters with a whole new perspective!

FALL WORK DAY

Join Board members for a workday to set the Center in order from the winter. Tools will be supplied, or bring your own. There’s plenty of socially distanced work for all!

Leader: Roger Hutchinson (315) 386-4795

Date: Saturday, October 10th; 8:30 - 12:00

Join 4-H Camp Overlook Program Director Casey Sukeforth in a morning of child-friendly snowshoeing at Indian Creek. Come learn the basics of traveling in the snow as we look for signs of winter animal visitors at the center! Snowshoes can be borrowed from the center at no cost for children and their guardians. 

Join guest Tom Langen for some fall birding on the Indian Creek Nature Center trails. Tom is a Clarkson University Biology Professor and St. Lawrence Land Trust Board President. We will meet at 8 am on Saturday at the Indian Creek Nature Center parking area of County Route 14. Extra binoculars will be provided. 

Join Indian Creek Nature Center Board members for a workday to set the Center in order for the winter. Tools will be supplied, or bring your own. There’s plenty of work for all. Donuts, coffee, and water will be supplied to volunteers. If you join after 9 am, find us out on the trails. We appreciate your help keeping these trails looking good for everyone to enjoy!

In the face of climate change, there is recent concern about how a warming and increasingly unpredictable climate will affect both sugar maple health and maple syrup production. Join us for a walk to discuss this potential threat to sugar maples, and learn to identify a variety of maples present on the trails. You'll also hear about ongoing research at St. Lawrence University, led by Nature Up North, monitoring the impact of changing temperatures on sugar maples here in the North Country.

A program to acquaint the novice as well as the more experienced fruit grower with tree care techniques from the ground up, from pruning and training young plants to renovating old, neglected trees. Master Gardener Don O’Shea, with decades of experience working with fruit trees, will share information on tree biology, pruning to enhance sound structural growth, fruit production and tree health, tool tips and mistakes to avoid. This class is free but pre-registration is required (important in case of changes due to bad weather). Call Don prior to the program date of April 13, 2019.

The ICNC hosts a wonderful array of interesting animals and fauna throughout the year. Peter O'Shea, local naturalist and author, will lead the group in identifying various creatures by their tracks and other unique features. If snow is sufficiently deep, trackers can bring their snowshoes or borrow them from the Nature Center. If no snow, we'll scout the trails on foot. Dress appropriately.
Leader: Peter O'Shea (315) 848-2178
Date: Saturday, January 5th, 2019, 10:00 to noon.

Join Board members for a workday to set the Center in order for the winter. Tools will be supplied, or bring your own. There’s plenty of work for all.