Join us to celebrate summer with our first community campfire! You’re invited to help light the fire using traditional fire-starting methods.  Guest Len Mackey will be joining us for an interactive evening learning the Earth's oldest ways of making fire with hand or bow drill. 

It's a great time of year to find frogs and salamanders! Join us for a fun Mother's Day outing at SLU Environmental Studies Department's Living Lab site to on Hwy 68 to explore the secret world of amphibians. Guest naturalist Kristine Hoffmann will lead the group to the vernal pools at the site in search of spring amphibians that come to these special, temporary pools to breed, like wood frogs and spotted salamanders.

Everyone is invited to a showing of the movie “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. The movie will be shown in the Romer Room at the Canton Unitarian-Universalist Church, 3½ Main Street, in Canton. 

The Canton Chamber of Commerce is hosting their annual Peter Rabbit in the Park event on April 13th! There will be free activities for kids from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. The Easter Egg Hunt will begin promptly at noon. Children under 6 can participate with a chance to grab up to 12 eggs. There will be a chance to win some prizes during the egg hunt as well.



Please remember to return all plastic eggs at the end of the hunt so they can be reused next year. 

Conservation in Clay: natural history and modern threats to New York’s native amphibians and reptiles

Community members are invited to a free art and science exhibition at Launder's Science Library on the St. Lawrence campus. Enjoy ceramic sculptures featuring some of New York State’s most exciting amphibians and reptiles. Hidden inside each work is a smaller sculpture that tells the story of the animal’s ecology or causes of population declines for a truly educational exhibition.

"Look & See is a cinematic portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the mind's eye of writer, farmer, and activist, Wendell Berry."

St. Lawrence Land Trust 5th Annual State of the River Talk: North Country Rivers Provide Training Grounds for Yukon River Race Presenter: Dr. Eileen Visser, St. Lawrence University.

Co-sponsored with Grasse River Heritage and Nature Up

Join us for the 2nd annual North Country Cardboard Sled Race! Come on over to the SUNY Canton Sledding Hill and race on sleds you create yourself from cardboard. Teams or individuals are invited to enter, and each sled must carry one team member. Registration and sled judging will run from 9:30 - 10:00, with the races beginning at 10:30. Sleds will be judged overall for special categories and by division for fastest time.

*instructions for parking at SUNY Canton the day of the race will be announced leading up to the event.

An afternoon of winter play for all ages! Join Nature Up North and friends for an open house with many of your favorite winter activities including: snowshoeing, animal tracking, cross country ski clinic, and an indoor cardboard sled building workshop (cardboard sled races Sat 2/16). We will also enjoy an ongoing campfire including free hot cocoa and hot cider. 

*This event has been POSTPONED. Stay tuned for upcoming volunteer trainings next year!