Hey Folks, Not much is new (visibly, at least) at the grove this week as far as the blooms go. Each week when I walk the loop I notice a few more flower buds (not new ones, I just didn’t see them before) but the numbers are down this year. The buds are still as […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: June 15, 2018
Hey Folks, Here it is again-halfway through June and not much is happening at the Rhododendron Grove in the way of blooms yet. They will come in a month or so – this species normally blooms around the middle of July, almost a month later than the hybridized cultivars that are common and visible in […]
Live Free Outdoors: Summer Video Series Returns
For the third year in a row NH State Parks will be producing a summer video series featuring a volunteer intern. This year’s series has been dubbed ‘Live Free Outdoors’ and the first episode, about the Flume Gorge, is being released today! High Point University student, Emily Durant, will be serving as host of the […]
Rhododendron Bloom Report: May 27, 2018
Hello and welcome to the 2018 series of bloom reports for Rhododendron State Park in Fitzwilliam, NH! Normally, as is the case this year the flowers of the native Rhododendron maximus at the grove in Fitzwilliam don’t start to open up until after the beginning of the month of July, with the most blooms visible […]
A Spring in Our Steps
By: Steven Sticht – 2018 Student Conservation Association’s New Hampshire AmeriCorps Member Birds singing, squirrels scurrying, streams thawing and trailheads emerging from the snow – these are all things that people love about the changing season – even if it takes a while for it to get here. As expected, spring has taken its time […]
It’s a great day to be at Bear Brook!
By Karlie Wilhelmi – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member After a rejuvenating weekend visiting my sister in New York, I came back to Bear Brook and fell into the usual routine. Something was different though, perhaps the hint of spring in the air. While sitting on the front porch, I could hear the murmur […]
When I “Breathe”
By Emma Brown – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member Every Monday before community meeting we have a time called “breathe.” It is a time when we refocus our minds after the weekend. I often take my camera with me to my breathe spot, photography is one of my main creative outlets. I find […]
Endurance!
By Jared Burris – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member While it would be easy for me to say how much impact we have had in schools the past couple months, and how we have jump-started growth and positive change in the students, I would be sugar-coating things to say that it has been a […]
The “Big Night(s)”
By: Rand Michaels – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member To briefly paint a picture of life here at Bear Brook State Park in late March; the mud season has begun. Our snow drifts, which once ominously encroached on both sides of the one-way road to camp, have dwindled to a patchy collection of blanks […]
The Wonders of the Subnivean Zone
By: Rachel Shoemaker 2018 SCA NH AmeriCorps Member Furbearing mammals like the gray fox and short-tailed weasel (ermine) are fascinated by the Subnivean zone and so is this born-and-raised North Carolinian. After taking a road trip with my family this past summer and seeing the beautiful state of New Hampshire in all its glory, I […]