Winter Hibernation Challenge

Winter Hibernation Challenge

January 18th- February 11th Join the Howard County Conservancy for our annual Winter Challenge: Hibernation! It’s time for our Winter challenge, when we encourage you to spend time outdoors at a park or in your neighborhood while helping to raise $12,000  to keep the...
Winter Challenge: Beat Cabin Fever!

Winter Challenge: Beat Cabin Fever!

Join the Howard County Conservancy for our Winter Challenge: Beat Cabin Fever!  We challenge you to spend time outdoors at a park or in your neighborhood while helping to raise $10,000  to keep the Conservancy’s 232 acres green and open to all for FREE! Participants...
Creature Feature: Ranger the Barred Owl

Creature Feature: Ranger the Barred Owl

Ranger is a Barred Owl, Strix varia.  While Barred Owls live all over Maryland, you have to be very lucky and look closely to see them!  They are masters of camouflage.  You may hear them at night however – their call is most distinctive. It sounds like, “Who...
Trek and Tracks with School’s Out

Trek and Tracks with School’s Out

Trek and Tracks from our School’s Out campers at Belmont Wow!  We had a great day of tracking animals with our School’s Out campers today.  Some of our friends visiting today have been to many of our camps before and were leaders on the trails.  Some were...
Silly Seasons!

Silly Seasons!

Wow!  Planning for our “Silly Seasons” session of camp was really easy to do this week. Yesterday, it was spring!  The birds were singing, we wore t-shirts outside and got caught with the cleaning bug. Today, it’s fall.  The wind is whipping!  Bundle...