Jan 16, 2023 | Announcements
Tell someone special “I turtley love you” this Valentine’s day! Show them AND our terrapins (Torope and Katrina) some love with our Valentine’s fundraiser. Enjoy a spe-shell card, a custom sponsorship certificate and a large dark chocolate...
Jan 13, 2023 | Announcements
The yellow-bellied sapsucker, which spends summers in Canada, visits Maryland in winter. Sapsuckers have been drilling telltale rows of holes in trees around Conservancy property. Bonnie Ott spotted a few of the robin-sized woodpeckers, which drink sugary sap from the...
Jan 3, 2023 | Opening Status
During the bitter cold spell in December, all three floors of our environmental education center were flooded. Our loss is great, but we are grateful to our community and dedicated to our mission. In addition to floors and ceilings on all levels of the building, we...
Jan 1, 2023 | Announcements
The Conservancy wishes you a wonderful new year. With 365 new dawns ahead of you in 2023, take time to absorb nature, glimpse a hawk in a tree or spot a spiderweb laced with dew. This year, more than 41,000 people were connected to nature through the...
Dec 20, 2022 | Announcements, News
During the bitter cold spell this week, all three floors of our environmental education center were flooded. Our loss is great, but we are grateful to our community and dedicated to our mission. In addition to floors and ceilings on all levels of the building, we lost...
Dec 13, 2022 | Announcements
The Conservancy was honored to contribute to the 20th anniversary celebration of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Bay-Watershed Education and Training program. Our two NOAA B-WET grants have engaged more than 50,000 Howard County middle and...
Dec 7, 2022 | Announcements
Give them the thrill of discovery on days off from school. Registration is now open for the Conservancy’s School’s Out programs, which offer your child the chance to discover nature, including what’s inside an owl pellet! With a full day of nature...
Nov 18, 2022 | Announcements
Nature enthusiasts need to rise early to catch a glimpse of one of our resident beavers. They’ve been busy! Beaver families have built multiple lodges in the pond they created when they dammed the stream. Beaver dams create wetland habitat for native plants,...
Nov 17, 2022 | Announcements
In this year’s Watershed Report Card investigation, 5,000 county high school students waded in eight streams to count hundreds of macroinvertebrates and grade our waterways’ health. Conservancy staff and volunteers worked more than 400 hours to support...
Nov 13, 2022 | Announcements
Welcome Pumpkin, our new goat. Holly, our Nigerian dwarf goat, charmed visitors during her long happy life here. We were saddened when she died in October. Buddy missed his companion, so we found a new pasture-mate for him, Pumpkin. She’s settling in nicely. To...
