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Upcoming Programs
Take to the Woods! Trail Challenge July 1 through August 31, 2019 Booklets will be available at Bangor Land Trust preserves beginning July 1. Visit all five preserves, locate the clue in the kiosk box, hike the trails to find the stamp, and stamp your booklet. When all five stamps are collected, stop into the Bangor Land Trust office to receive your free light-weight water bottle for future hiking adventures. 2019 Nature Watch through the Seasons Did you know that nature has a calendar too? Why do certain changes happen to plants and animals at certain times of the year? Join us for a series of walking talks at Walden-Parke Preserve to observe and learn more about these changes. We'll discuss journals, sketching, and citizen science data as a way to record the changes and when, if, and how to start a collection. There'll be time for journals and sharing of favorite discoveries at the end of each walk. Meet at the Tamarack Trail kiosk on the following Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. July 13 Flowers, Insects, Amphibians Oct. 12 Ecological Cycle, Leaf Creations Please RSVP by calling or emailing the office - 942-1010 / info@bangorlandtrust.org. Saturday, August 3 Field Day with Maine Entomological Society Walden-Parke Preserve Meet at 10 a.m. by the BLT kiosk near the end of Tamarack Trail Sunday, September 8 Pedal the Penobscot Cycling event that offers five distances (12, 26, 50, 76 & 100-mile). Thursday, November 7 The Maine Master Naturalist Program speaker: founder Cloe Chunn First National Bank, Exchange Street, Bangor Thursday, December 5 at 6 p.m. Forest Ecology Topic speaker: Nick Fisichelli with Schoodic Institute Thursday, February 27, 2020 Annual Meeting Dysart's Broadway Restaurant speaker: Edwin Barkdoll March 18-22, 2020 Maine Science Festival Cross Center, Bangor, Maine For more information and stormy weather cancellations, email info@bangorlandtrust.org or call 942-1010. 
Kestrel boxes that UMaine Construction Engineering students built in 2018 are being installed on our preserves. Cason Snow has taken on the project and installed the first one at West Penjajawoc Grasslands June 1st. Thank you Cason!
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The More You Know
Have you ever wondered about a flower or bird or tree? Did you want to know its name or more about it? Help build a resource of nature's gifts in the Bangor area to use and to learn from. Send photos from your adventures - photos of frogs, birds, bugs, trees and more.
Have you ever wondered about a flower or bird or tree? Did you want to know its name or more about it? Help build a resource of nature's gifts in the Bangor area to use and to learn from. Send photos from your adventures - photos of frogs, birds, bugs, trees and more.