Education

Negutaquet History Walk w/ Brad Fletcher
Saturday, September 20, 2025
10:00 am
Negutaquet Conservation Area
219 Lebanon Rd, North Berwick | GPS coordinates for parking: Lat: 43.319, Long: -70.753

Step back into history with Brad Fletcher from 10am to noon at the Negutaquet Conservation Area in North Berwick. This walk is FREE to members, a suggested donation of $5 per person for non-members. Reservations required. Register Here Or sign up via emaiI:  info@gwrlt.org or call 207-646-3604. Read more

Citizen Science Tick Drag for Youth
Sep 25 – Nov 6, 2025
3:00 pm
Desrochers Memorial Forest & Savage Wildlife Preserve
Desrochers Memorial Forest, Town Forest Rd, South Berwick, ME 03908
Savage Wildlife Preserve, 15 Dover-Eliot Rd, South Berwick, ME 03908

Youth aged 8-18 and their caregivers are invited to participate in a citizen science tick drag to help the UMaine Tick Lab and Maine Forest Tick Survey identify and track the presence of ticks and tick borne pathogens. Read more

Nature Journaling for Kids & Teens
Oct 6 – Oct 27, 2025
1:00 pm
Various GWRLT properties

Bring your curiosity and skills of observation, and join Rebecca Tay from York County 4-H to start a nature journal as we explore GWRLT properties.  You don’t need to be an artist to benefit from nature journaling.  Learn different techniques and observe what is happening in nature at that moment. Basic nature journaling supplies will be provided for… Read more

Mushroom ID Walk With North Spore at Old Boston Preserve
Saturday, October 11, 2025
10:00 am
Old Boston Preserve
N Village Rd, Ogunquit, ME 03907 | Parking coordinates: Lat: 43.258 Long: -70.639

Join Louis Giller of North Spore and GWRLT for a mushroom ID walk at Old Boston Preserve in Ogunquit. This mushroom walk is designed to be an introduction to the mycological world of Maine, with a particular focus on edible mushrooms. Areas covered will include basic fungal biology and life cycle and mushroom/myths and truths…. Read more

Walking Tour in the Tatnic Hills
Saturday, October 18, 2025
10:00 am
Tatnic Hills
Intersection of Hill & Tatnic Rd, Wells

Join Joe Hardy on Saturday, October 18th, from 10am to noon for a walking tour in the Tatnic Hills. The focus of this walk is the English settlement and abandonment of Tatnic Hills and the place of those events in the history of Wells and the changing landscapes of the hill along with the impact… Read more

Walk into Punkintown History Hike w/ Brad Fletcher
Saturday, October 25, 2025
10:00 am
Rocky Hills Preserve
Punkintown Road in South Berwick, just beyond Punkintown Place

Step back into history with Brad Fletcher from 10am to 1pm at the Rocky Hills Preserve and learn about the colorful past of Punkintown—which today hides in plain sight, just beyond the trees that line Rt. 236. This walk is FREE to members, a suggested donation of $5 per person for non-members. Reservations required. Register… Read more

How Trees Prepare for Winter with Eileen Willard
Sunday, November 2, 2025
10:00 am
Orris Falls Conservation Area
551 Emery’s Bridge Rd, South Berwick

Join Maine Master Naturalist Eileen Willard, former UNH Lab Instructor in Dendrology (the study of trees) at Orris Falls Conservation Area, to learn how trees prepare for winter, how to identify them by bud and bark and how to enjoy “down-leaf time” in Maine’s forested landscape. Read more

Kenyon Hill ‘Berwick Branch’ History Walk w/ Brad Fletcher
Sunday, November 16, 2025
10:00 am
Kenyon Hill Preserve
110 Ogunquit Rd, South Berwick, ME 03908 | Parking coordinates: Lat: 43.26 Long: -70.67

Step back into history with Brad Fletcher from 10am to 12:30pm at the Kenyon Hill Preserve in So. Berwick.  In the decades following the Civil War, the eastern part of Tatnic in South Berwick was sometimes called ‘Berwick Branch’ and so referenced on maps of the area.  Located along the headwaters of the Ogunquit River, the… Read more

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