Friday, January 11, 2008   7pm – 9pm
Owl Prowl    Upper Mill Brook, Wayland.   
Registration required.  Members Free.  Non- members $5. For more info:  www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Saturday, January 19, 2008   9:30 am - Noon
Tracking Your Neighbors Footsteps,   Memorial Forest, Sudbury. 
Winter is the perfect time to learn what types of animals are roaming our reservations.  Wear extra warm clothing. Registration required.   For more info:  www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Saturday, January 19 , 2008 7 PM
Moonlight Walk and Ski, Foss Farm, Carlisle
Join the Carlisle Trails Committee for a walk/cross-country ski/snowshoe through the Great Meadow Wildlife Refuge under the nearly full moon starting from Foss Farm parking lot on Bedford Road. A shorter and longer version of the walk will be available. Dress for winter weather and bring a flashlight. No dogs allowed. Refreshments will be served afterwards. Open to all. For more information call Steve Tobin 978-369-1680.

Sunday, January 20, 2008  2 pm
E.O. Wilson and the World of Ants
Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Sunday Family Program for middle school children and their families.  Join us for a screening of The Naturalist, a 30 minute movie about the life and work of the renowned entomologist, author and Pulitzer Prize winner, Edward O. Wilson.  Followed by a presentation about Harvard’s world famous ant collection with graduate student Ronald Clouse.  Free with Museum Admission.  For more info:  www.hmnh.harvard.edu.

Saturday, January 26, 2008  9 am - Noon
Snowshoe at Memorial Forest, off Dutton Road in Sudbury
Join SVT and Eastern Mountain Sports of Marlborough for a snowshoe clinic.  Space is limited. Members free; Non-Members $5.
For more info:  www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Saturday, January 26, 2008   1pm – 4pm
Cedar Swamp Winter Stomp
Walk the forests and wetlands to Cedar Swamp Pond in Westborough and look for animal tracks, winter buds and berries. Wear snowshoes or warm boots.   Registration required.  For more info:  www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Monday, January 28, 2008  7 pm
“Thoreau Country” at Gleason Public Library
H. W. Gleason's "Thoreau's Country" will be presented by Leslie Perrin Wilson, curator, William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library.   Wilson will present an early 20th-century slide lecture created and repeatedly presented by photographer, Thoreauvian, and environmentalist Herbert Wendell Gleason. This program is free and open to the public. To learn more about programs at the Gleason Public Library, visit www.gleasonlibrary.org or call the reference desk at 1-978-369-4898.

Saturday, February 2, 2008   11 am – 2 pm
Memorial Forest Cross Country Ski, off Dutton Road in Sudbury
Join SVT Director Susan Crane at SVT’s largest property and ski its extensive and varied trail systems. Members free; Non-Members $5.
For more info:  www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Tuesday, February 12, 2008   7:30 – 9 AM  (every 2nd Tuesday of month)
Carlisle Conservation Coffee: 
Clark Room, Carlisle Town Hall
Continental Breakfast provided.
Sponsored by Carlisle Conservation Commission

Saturday, February 16, 2008   6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Moonlight on the Marshes, Wayland
(Alternate Date - February 17, same time)
SVT Director Bob Anderson will host this cross country ski through Wayland’s marshes.  Space is limited. Members free; Non-Members $5.
For more info:  www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Thursday, February 28, 2008  7:30 PM
“Nature in Our Lives and Imaginations”
SVT Lecture Series at Wolbach Farm, Sudbury.
Larry Buell “Thoreau’s Secret: Childhood and the Making of Environmental Memory.”  What are the implications for the “environmental imprint” in an age when technology has made indoors so much larger than it was.  Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard and author of The Environmental Imagination.
www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org for more information.  Members $5. Non-members $10.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008   7:30 – 9 AM  (every 2nd Tuesday of month)
Carlisle Conservation Coffee: 
Clark Room, Carlisle Town Hall
Continental Breakfast provided.
Sponsored by Carlisle Conservation Commission

Saturday, March 29, 2008    8 am – 4:30 pm
18th Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference
Worcester Technical High School, Worcester, MA
Learn the nuts and bolts of what it takes to conserve land for everyone, forever. Join novice and long-time conservationists for a wide array of workshops on the legal, financial, political, and social realities of land conservation.
Look for more details in Mid January.  Pre-registration required. This conference sold out last year.  Contact Miriam Scagnetti @ mscagnetti@ttor.org for more information.