Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Students Can Save the Earth
This from Canada: Global trends indicate a looming environmental catastrophe, and engaging high school students through Internet social networks around the world may be the only hope.
High schoolers changing the world with Facebook, something most adults would have to ask, “What is Facebook?”
Social networking sites are powerful forces that are shaping students, our future […]
No Comments » - Posted in Info, Comment, Global Warming, In the News by Brian Leaf
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Books, Bees, Hawks and Stars
The Mysteries and Miracles of Nature series continues today (Saturday, Sept. 15) with more great free programs
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Used book sale
10:00 am, 12:00 noon & 2:00 pm - World Bird Sanctuary - Masters of the Skyof Eureka, Missouri
An experience of the senses with masters of the Sky program. Look into the eyes […]
No Comments » - Posted in Info by Brian Leaf
Friday, September 14th, 2007
The Mysteries of Butterflies and the Holy Grail of Birds
Join us 6:30 tonight (Friday, Sept. 14) at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, 1601 Parkview Ave., to learn all about butterflies and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird believed extinct for 60 years until it was reported in an Arkansas swamp three years ago.
Butterfly expert and author, and former Rockfordian, Alan Branhagen […]
No Comments » - Posted in Info, Events, In the News by Brian Leaf
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Supper and The Spirituality Of Nature
The Mysteries and Miracles of Nature series of FREE PROGRAMS continues Thursday with a community supper at 5:30 p.m. and a talk on the connection between nature and spirituality. The event is at Severson Dells Nature Center, 8786 Montague Road, Rockford.
If you’re coming for supper — we’ll provide BBQs and drinks, you bring a dish […]
No Comments » - Posted in Info, Events by Brian Leaf
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Patterns and Language of Nature
The Mysteries and Miracles of Nature, series of FREE PROGRAMs kicks off with an exploration of the patterns and language of nature at Severson Dells Nature Center, 8786 Montague Road, Rockford.
At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, Tim Gruner, curator of Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, will help us see nature through a gardener’s eye. Tim’s […]
No Comments » - Posted in Info, Events, Observing Nature by Brian Leaf
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Severson Dells Fall Newsletter Online
The fall 2007 edition of Notes From the Dells is now online.
Click to download the fall Notes from the Dells (PDF).
No Comments » - Posted in Info by Brian Leaf
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
The Inner Eye
This is a wonderful essay by Don Miller that appeared in the fall Notes From The Dells.
The Inner Eye, by Don Miller
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
W.B. Yeats
There is a group of senior nature folks located in northern Illinois that call themselves, “The Whale Watchers.” They hike along this regions’ river […]
