Are plants out to get you?
Explore how to stay safe in nature by learning about some of the most common plants you want to avoid while in the woods, and common remedies for encountering them.
Join us at the Indian Creek Nature Center for the second of four Nature Knowledge Summer Program Series!
This is in partnership with the Nicandri Nature Center, Nature Up North, and the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
(Not every program is at the Indian Creek Nature Center, each partner will hold one of the programs, see the poster above for details)

Spring ephemerals should be in full bloom and trees will be getting ready to leaf out at the Wildflower Loop; join botanist Anne Johnson at the East Entrance for an enjoyable springtime stroll around the loop and beyond.

This program is co-sponsored by Northern New York Audubon, led by Mary Beth Warburton. The theme of this year’s World Migratory Bird Day is: “Every bird counts - your observations matter”. Join ornithologist Susan Willson, Eileen Wheeler, and Mary Beth Warburton for a morning of enjoying migrants and ICNC resident species. Meet at the main entrance. Bring your own binoculars or borrow them from the Center.

Leaders: Dr. Susan Willson, bird ecologist and SLU Assoc. Professor; Eileen Wheeler, birder and ICNC Board member; and Mary Beth Warburton, birder

Please join us on Saturday, April 25, 2026, for the Indian Creek Nature Center 

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!

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

Join INCN Board members for a workday to help clean up the Nature Center from summer storms and get it ready for the winter. Tools will be supplied, or you can bring your own. There is always plenty of work for all!

Rain Date is Sunday, October 26th

Join Clarkson University Honors Students as they lead a guided walk and discuss how the natural environment at ICNC is transforming around us. Why do leaves change color in the fall? Where do all the animals go? What about the dragonflies? Come find out! Meet at ICNC's main entrance parking lot at 11am. Wear shoes appropriate for walking through the woods on (potentially muddy) trails.

With days shortening and weather starting to chill, now is the time to view the stars above the Indian Creek Nature Center! Join Ben Roulston, an astronomer from Clarkson's Reynolds Observatory for a short walk to the observation tower at Indian Creek and an evening of viewing the moon, stars, nebulae, and more! In order to ensure proper viewing conditions, this event is slotted to take place on one night between October 3rd (Friday) and October 9th (Thursday). The decision on which day the event will occur will be made the day of.

We will meet at 8:00AM in the parking lot at the main entrance. Please dress for the weather and be prepared for potentially muddy trails by wearing good walking shoes and prepared for mosquitoes with repellant. We expect to find fall songbird, raptor, and waterfowl migrants passing through on their way to wintering in the southern US and Latin America, as well as resident species that are found at Indian Creek year-round. Bring binoculars, or we have a few to loan for the walk. If you plan to attend, email: eiwheeler@yahoo.com.