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• Senior Stroll

  • When
    25 Jun 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    9

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  Senior Stroll
  Wednesday, June 25; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Join us for a walk in the woods as we explore nature's seasonal highlights... route and difficulty level will be determined based on the needs of registered participants with options for flat meadow, paved wooded or natural surface wooded trails.
  Adults
  $3 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members)

  Registration for this program closes on Monday, June 23rd.

  
  

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• Me and My Pup on the Ridge

  • When
    08 Jul 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    7

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  Me and My Pup on the Ridge
  Tuesday, July 8th; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Here’s your chance to bring your pup on a Naturalist led hike! Friendly, leashed pups (with a waste clean-up bag) and their owners are invited to join us for a hike on the trails at Oregon Ridge. 
  Adults along with their pup
  $4 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members)
  

  Registration is limited to one pup per person. Two people with one pup is acceptable, but all human guests must be registered and paid.

  Registration for this program closes on Sunday, July 6th.

  
  

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• Senior Stroll

  • When
    09 Jul 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    11

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  Senior Stroll
  Wednesday, July 9; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Join us for a walk in the woods as we explore nature's seasonal highlights... route and difficulty level will be determined based on the needs of registered participants with options for flat meadow, paved wooded or natural surface wooded trails.
  Adults
  $3 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members)

  Registration for this program closes on Monday, July 7th.

  
  

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• The Natural Science Book Club – The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

  • When
    21 Jul 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    9

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  The Natural Science Book Club –
  The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
  Monday, July 21; 7 - 8 p.m. (in person at the Lake Pavilion or Nature Center Library depending on weather)
  In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons – from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring – what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.
  Adults
  FREE (donations appreciated)
  

  Registration for this program closes at noon on Saturday, July 19th.
  

  A reminder email with details will be sent to all registered guests prior to the program
  

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• Senior Stroll

  • When
    23 Jul 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    11

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  Senior Stroll
  Wednesday, July 23; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Join us for a walk in the woods as we explore nature's seasonal highlights... route and difficulty level will be determined based on the needs of registered participants with options for flat meadow, paved wooded or natural surface wooded trails.
  Adults
  $3 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members)

  Registration for this program closes on Monday, July 21st.

  
  

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• Babes in Backpacks

  • When
    25 Jul 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    24

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  Babes in Backpacks
  Friday, July 25; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  A great opportunity for parents or caregivers to get some fresh air and exercise while enjoying nature along the trail with their little one.
  Adults with children under the age of 4
  (Child must be carried in a wearable carrier for the entire hike.)
  $5 per adult (FREE for ORNCC Members)
  

  Two adults with one child is acceptable, but all guests must be registered and paid.

  Registration for this program closes on Wednesday, July 23rd..

  IMPORTANT! Please register your child first, then register the adult or adults. This will prompt our registration system to register the child with no fee due. If you sign up for a membership, please make sure the membership is in the adult's name. The registration system will autofill the members name, but that can be changed to the child's name during the registration process.

  
  

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• Stewardship Work Day

  • When
    09 Aug 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    28

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  Stewardship Work Day
  Saturday, August 9; 9 - 11 a.m.
  We need your help to restore habitats and remove invasive plants in the park! A brief overview of some of our offenders will be presented and we will begin to manually remove them along the Red Trail at the future site of the Woodland Restoration Garden. We will branch out into other areas of the park, hoping to encourage the return of our lovely native plants. Tools will be available, but you are welcome to bring your favorites along with work gloves. 
  Adults
  FREE
  

  Registration for this program closes on Friday, August 8th.
  

  EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE MUST BE REGISTERED AND ON OUR ROSTER. A reminder email with details will be sent to all registered guests prior to the program.

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• Me and My Pup on the Ridge

  • When
    12 Aug 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    6

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  Me and My Pup on the Ridge
  Tuesday, August 12th; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Here’s your chance to bring your pup on a Naturalist led hike! Friendly, leashed pups (with a waste clean-up bag) and their owners are invited to join us for a hike on the trails at Oregon Ridge. 
  Adults along with their pup
  $4 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members)
  

  Registration is limited to one pup per person. Two people with one pup is acceptable, but all human guests must be registered and paid.

  Registration for this program closes on Sunday, August 10th.

  
  

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• Senior Stroll

  • When
    13 Aug 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    12

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  Senior Stroll
  Wednesday, August 13; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Join us for a walk in the woods as we explore nature's seasonal highlights... route and difficulty level will be determined based on the needs of registered participants with options for flat meadow, paved wooded or natural surface wooded trails.
  Adults
  $3 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members)

  Registration for this program closes on Monday, August 11th.

  
  

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• Babes in Backpacks

  • When
    22 Aug 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    24

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  Babes in Backpacks
  Friday, August 22; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  A great opportunity for parents or caregivers to get some fresh air and exercise while enjoying nature along the trail with their little one.
  Adults with children under the age of 4
  (Child must be carried in a wearable carrier for the entire hike.)
  $5 per adult (FREE for ORNCC Members)
  

  Two adults with one child is acceptable, but all guests must be registered and paid.

  Registration for this program closes on Wednesday, August 20th.

  IMPORTANT! Please register your child first, then register the adult or adults. This will prompt our registration system to register the child with no fee due. If you sign up for a membership, please make sure the membership is in the adult's name. The registration system will autofill the members name, but that can be changed to the child's name during the registration process.

  
  

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• Senior Stroll

  • When
    27 Aug 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    12

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  Senior Stroll
  Wednesday, August 27; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Join us for a walk in the woods as we explore nature's seasonal highlights... route and difficulty level will be determined based on the needs of registered participants with options for flat meadow, paved wooded or natural surface wooded trails.
  Adults
  $3 per person (FREE for ORNCC Members)

  Registration for this program closes on Monday, August 25th.

  
  

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• The Natural Science Book Club – The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • When
    08 Sep 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    13

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  The Natural Science Book Club – The Light Eaters:
  How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
  Monday, September 8; 7 - 8 p.m. (in person at the Lake Pavilion or Nature Center Library depending on weather)
  It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. Scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit.
       Zoe Schlanger’s, The Light Eaters is an immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system.
  Adults
  FREE (donations appreciated)
  

  Registration for this program closes at noon on Saturday, September 6th.
  

  A reminder email with details will be sent to all registered guests prior to the program
  

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• The Natural Science Book Club – What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds

  • When
    20 Oct 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Oregon Ridge Nature Center
  • Spaces left
    15

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  The Natural Science Book Club – What We Sow:
  On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds
  Monday, October 20; 7 - 8 p.m. (in person at the Lake Pavilion or Nature Center Library depending on weather)
  In What We Sow, Jennifer Jewell brings readers on an insightful, year-long journey exploring the outsize impact one of nature's smallest manifestations – the simple seed. She examines our skewed notions where "organic" seeds are grown and sourced, reveals how giant multinational agribusiness has refined and patented the genomes of seeds we rely on for staples like corn and soy, and highlights the efforts of activists working to regain legal access to heirloom seeds. Throughout, readers are invited to share Jewell's personal observations as she marvels at the glory of nature.
  Adults
  FREE (donations appreciated)
  

  Registration for this program closes at noon on Saturday, October 18th.
  

  A reminder email with details will be sent to all registered guests prior to the program
  

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