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Diversity Is More Than Color

Virtual

Join us for On Belonging In Outdoor Spaces, a free series featuring speakers whose work is advancing efforts to strengthen belonging and connection between communities of color and the outdoors. As a cancer survivor, paraclimber, outdoor enthusiast, and a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional, Kareemah Batts pulls from her lived experience and education to co-create […]

Free

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Fall 2022 Noticing Walks

Multiple Locations

Join the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust as Noticing Walks return in Fall 2022! Since 2017, John Calabria has been leading walks on Lincoln conservation land to people of all ages who want to enjoy a gently paced, observation-focused exploration of nature. FREE. All are welcome. Registration is encouraged but not required. Registered participants will receive […]

Free

Recurring

Fall 2022 Noticing Walks

Multiple Locations

Join the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust as Noticing Walks return in Fall 2022! Since 2017, John Calabria has been leading walks on Lincoln conservation land to people of all ages who want to enjoy a gently paced, observation-focused exploration of nature. FREE. All are welcome. Registration is encouraged but not required. Registered participants will receive […]

Free

Nature’s Best Hope with Doug Tallamy

Virtual

Join Lincoln Land Conservation Trust for a virtual evening with Doug Tallamy. Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that […]

Free

On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces: Claudia Fox Tree

Decolonizing Contributions by Indigenous People February 22, 2023 | 7 PM EST How do we decolonize what we have learned about Native American achievements? We add important missing information and change the dominant narrative. This presentation will help connect the dots from understanding the land to understanding Indigenous People. We will move from the past […]

Free

On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces: Leah Penniman

Virtual

Black Earth Wisdom: Afro-Ecological Survival Strategies March 8, 2023 | 7 PM EST “I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour.” ~Dr. George Washington Carver, Tuskegee University, 1887 The Queen Mothers of Kroboland, Ghana admonished their Black American students in disbelief, “Is it […]

Free

On Belonging in Outdoor Spaces: José G. González

Virtual

Wayfinding and Belonging in the Outdoors March 29, 2023 | 7 PM EST We move as stories through narratives spaces as much as physical and cultural spaces. The outdoors, as a construct grounded on the land, is one we co-create, and as the nation's demographics continue to be more diverse, we have the opportunity, and […]

Free

Why Do Birds Matter?

Virtual

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED—NEW DATE & TIME TO BE DETERMINED Why do birds matter? Join the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust and Trevor Lloyd-Evans as we explore this question. Birds have always captured people’s imagination and envy – they are beautiful, they sing, they can fly and we can’t. Because there are more than 10,000 […]

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