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Groton Nature Center

1595 Boulder Beach Road
Groton, VT 05046

(802) 584-3827

Jr. Ranger Roundup

Everything needed to start or complete earning the official Vermont State Park Jr. Ranger badge.  45min.

Tracks, Skins 'n' Skulls at the Groton Nature Center

Meet your furbearing friends of Groton State Forest while you make and paint plaster-of-paris animal tracks to take home.  1hr.

Here Be Dragonflies at the Groton Nature Center

Groton State Forest is a dragonfly paradise. Check some out, discover their secret lives and see if you can catch up to >300 million years of evolution! 1hr; bring aerial sweep nets if you have them. 

 

 

 

Mushrooms Demystified at the Groton Nature Center

Introducing some fabulous, fearsome and perhaps delicious members of Kingdom Fungi. Program will introduce what mushrooms are, how how they're intricately linked with all other life on Earth, major groupings (gilled, boletes, polypores, etc.) and representative species present at time of program. 1hr minimum; option to extend for up to 2.5hrs total including mushroom-collecting walk. Participants are encouraged to bring samples.

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