This month, the Fossil Club is pleased to welcome NHSM’s Paleontology Curator George Spicka for an entertaining discussion of the numerous extinction events that have shaped life on Earth from prehistory to more recent times. George says: “Because of the Mega Fauna Extinction event that is now thought to have begun in Asia some 50,000 years […]
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Join us at Norman Creek in Essex for an afternoon walk to seek out and identify various species of herps! The exact location will be provided via email after you register for the event. Please contact the club coordinator (mfalk@marylandnature.org) with any questions. This event is free, but you must be a current member of […]
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Join us at dusk for an exploratory early-spring stroll through 6+ acres of private, wooded land in Perry Hall. The site is under conservation easement and features a pond (formerly a 200-year-old iron mine). The property owner is a member of the NHSM Herp Club and has generously offered us this opportunity to poke around. […]
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Fossil Club members are invited once again to participate in this ever-popular NHSM event! Among the most important fossil research sites in the Mid-Atlantic region, Stratford Cliffs were formed when land replaced an ancient sea. Fossils found here are from the Miocene Epoch, approximately 17 to 10 million years ago, and indicate an ancient sea […]
Cost: $30
Join us at Volz Neighborhood Park in Middle River for an afternoon walk to seek out and identify various species of herps! The exact location will be provided via email after you register for the event. Please contact the club coordinator (mfalk@marylandnature.org) with any questions. This event is free, but you must be a current […]
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The NHSM Lepidoptery Club is back for another season of raising, enjoying, and learning about leps! Join us for our first meeting of 2025. Register today to receive email updates about the meeting! If you love butterflies and moths, consider joining the NHSM Lep Club. Made up of novice and expert lepidopterists who meet to […]
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Love them or hate them, rats are inescapable. In this New Scientist Non-Fiction Book of the Year Joe Shute explores our complex and often contradictory relationship with the rat. He travels the world from sub-Saharan Africa to the Rocky Mountains and visits some of the most rodent-infested cities on earth to unpick the myths we […]
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Maryland’s State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) outlines strategic approaches for conserving wildlife and key habitats. As a federal mandate, this document is revised every 10 years to account for changes in conservation needs and address emerging threats. This online presentation by Beth Schlimm of the MD DNR will outline important components of the SWAP that […]
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Ethan Bean of the US Army Corps of Engineers will discuss a shipwreck found in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay. The legislative framework of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, within which federal agencies operate, will also be explained. In 2019, as part of the Wolf Trap Alternate Placement Site Northern […]
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So you’ve found a moth or a butterfly and were able to identify it to species. Congratulations! Could you go one step further and determine its sex? For many species of Lepidoptera, the males and females look alike, and the sex can only be determined via genitalic dissection or examination of the hindwing/forewing coupling. For […]
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