No School in the Greater New Milford Area and Southern Litchfield County Again tomorrow ( some exceptions), no school for our New York City Friends either! Join us for Camp !!! 9 am to 5pm $50.00 member/$55.00 nonmember. Shelters, Camouflage, Cooking over the fire, off trail adventures……lots of fun!!
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I often wish I could capture moments on video tape and play them back for others to enjoy or to learn from. Today’s storm camp kids spent their morning on the mountain, climbing on fallen trees, going off trail, surveying the new scenery left by Hurricane Sandy. After lunch they gathered natures supplies, and with
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Pratt nature center will be hosting storm camp tomorrow October 31st. from 9am to 5pm! Please email (no phone calls) ds.prattcenter@gmail.com to confirm your spot. Pricing: $50.00 members/$55.00 non members. Supplies: Send extra clothes and shoes, we have a dryer and we will make a hot meal over the fire at about 4:00pm tomorrow Who
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Last year, in New Milford, about this time…No electricity, schools closed, roads closed, tortoises and dragon lizards in my living room, while most other businesses were closed…..Pratt Nature Center had STORM CAMP! Nature gave us everything we needed ( except showers). We spent our days on the mountain, climbing over fallen trees, exploring…we were in
Corporate Team Building Approx 50 members of the Boehringer-Ingelheim development and research team took a break from splitting cells to join us at the Pratt Nature Center for their corporate team building day. Despite the rain, the group had a great time spending their day at Summer Camp! Just like Summer Camp we started
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A Beautiful Place to “Leaf Peep” It’s nearing the end of leaf peeping season and we have been lucky to have some beautiful autumn days!!! It has been so nice to see so many different people enjoying some time at the Pratt Nature Center. A steady stream of hikers have been in and out all
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Welcome Wamogo Middle School! We are busy getting ready for 100 Wamogo Middle School Science students to join us ( in the rain) on a school field trip tomorrow. They will be participating in an entire day of hands on learning! They will be making pickles while learning about the science of preserving (in
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Explore the sights and sounds of nature after the sun goes down. As our senses adjust to the darkness, we will explore the sights and sounds of thefarmyard, meadows, pond and river. Nature doesn’t go to sleep when the sun goes down! Nothing better than lying on theground watching the bats and stars come out!
Bruno, our African Spur-Thighed Tortoise ( Sulcata) has a new friend! Bushy Hill Nature Center in Ivoryton Connecticut gave us a call last week asking for help in wintering their female Tortoise. After discussing it with staff and Bruno of course, we agreed to help them out! Shelly will be spending the winter with us as our “Foster Tortoise.”
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This afternoons, after school, enrichment class got to share with me my favorite animal experience (so far) at Pratt. We have seen Coyote, Fox, Raccoon, Deer ( just this morning), Bear Tracks and have smelled a Skunk but today was something really, really cool…. While going on an adventure in the river we spotted an
