What's Your Nature?
Become a Nature Up North explorer to share your encounters with wild things and wild places in New York's North Country. Post your wildlife sightings, landscape shots, photos from your outings, and even your organization's events!
Tracking Wildlife in Winter
A Canton Winterfest Event! Meet at the Indian Creek main entrance for a couple hours slow walk or snowshoe to look for evidence of winter wildlife. Snowshoes will be provided or bring your own! Rain or shine! No need to sign up, just show up!
Hare tracks in Azure
Did a quick snowshoe up Azure Mountain and found a bunch of snowshoe hare tracks. The picture doesn't do their size justice. I followed them after taking the photo and found where they must have settled down for a night recently. I didn't see any hares while at the top though.
Monitor My Maple
Monitor My Maple is our flagship citizen science project.
Residents volunteer to observe and record seasonal changes (also called phenological changes) in local maple trees.
Snowfall at SLU
Campus looked very pretty the day after a lot of snow fell! I like how the red berries contrast with the snow in this picture.
Postponed to Feb. 14th! Don't miss our 8th Annual Cardboard Sled Race!
Our 8th Annual Cardboard Sled Race is postponed to Saturday, February 14th at 10:00am due to cold temps. To stay up to date on the race, learn the permitted materials, and more, follow this link!
https://www.natureupnorth.org/event/8th-annual-cardboard-sled-race
Cardboard Sled Building Workshop
Our 8th annual cardboard sled race is fast approaching!
Join Nature Up North for a cardboard sled-building workshop at the Wachtmeister Field Station. At this workshop, you will learn how to build your own cardboard sled for the race, and we'll have all the materials you'll need! Cardboard, duct tape, plastic bags, glue, and paint are all allowed materials. If you have a box, a color, or plastic bags you want to use, you can bring those with you too.
Cardboard Sled Building Workshop
Our 8th annual cardboard sled race is fast approaching!
Join Nature Up North for a cardboard sled-building workshop at the Wachtmeister Field Station. At this workshop, you will learn how to build your own cardboard sled for the race, and we'll have all the materials you'll need! Cardboard, duct tape, plastic bags, glue, and paint are all allowed materials. If you have a box, a color, or plastic bags you want to use, you can bring those with you too.
Looking for Evidence of Wildlife in Winter
Meet at the Indian Creek main entrance for a couple hours slow walk or snowshoe to look for evidence of winter wildlife. Snowshoes will be provided or bring your own! Rain or shine! Contact Tom for more information or just show up!
Leader: Tom Van de Water, Co-President ICNC Board of Directors
Ice crystals on the siding of our house.
We looked out the window and saw small spider web that had grown ice crystals on it over night.
Many were attached to the siding, looking like small feathers akin to the nasal feathers on a downy woodpecker.
8th Annual Cardboard Sled Race
Postponed 1 week due to cold temps! Join us on Saturday, Feb 14th at 10:00am.