What's Your Nature?

Become a Nature Up North explorer to share your encounters with wild things and wild places in New York's North Country. Post your wildlife sightings, landscape shots, photos from your outings, and even your organization's events!

A baby owl on the school nature trail

While renovating the campus nature trail, St. Lawrence Central High School students noticed a baby owl sitting on a fallen log. Striving to be a unnoticeable as possible, some of the bolder students crept closer for a photo op.

Poison ivy ID game

Can you identify poison ivy?  Here are four pictures to compare of which the first and last are poison ivy and the two in the middle are not. Remember: leaves of three, leave it be!

Red Dragonfly

Red Dragonfly at Hart's Falls. 

Purple Coneflowers

Purple coneflowers outside of the Johnson Hall of Science at St. Lawrence University