All programs are open to the public. Please pre-register by clicking here, emailing info@bear-paw.org, or calling 603-463-9400, unless noted otherwise, so that Bear-Paw can provide adequate materials for everyone and notify participants in case of any last minute changes.


Evans Mountain Flamingo Flock-a-Friend
May - September, Strafford

Migrating flamingos are flocking!  "Flocking," as it has become known, is the fund-raising effort that accounts for flamingos showing up on lawns all over the country - most recently in Strafford, New Hampshire. All proceeds will benefit the Campaign to Save Evans Mountain and the land protection program of Bear-Paw Regional Greenways.

Here's how it works: You contribute $25, $50, or more to the Campaign to Save Evans Mountain to place a flock of pink plastic flamingos on one of your friend’s or neighbor’s lawn (or somewhere else) for a day. The recipient gets a pink sign explaining the rules and an opportunity to return the favor! For another $25 donation that recipient may choose to send the flamingos on to their next destination.  The donations are, of course, voluntary.

Click here to enter your Flamingo order online or here for a form that you can print out.  You can mail in your contribution or make it online here.

Bear-Paw invites its members and friends to participate in its sixth annual Biothon – a species identification treasure hunt to discover and promote the biodiversity of the lands Bear-Paw works to protect. Two to three teams of skilled naturalists will compete to identify as many plant and animal species as possible on the Evans Mountain Property in Strafford – a property recently purchased by Bear-Paw, the Blue Hills Foundation, and the Town of Strafford. Proceeds from the Biothon will benefit the $500,000 Campaign to Save Evans Mountain!

The 1,015-acre Evans Mountain property includes the summit of the mountain and a wide variety of wildlife habitat including Appalachian-oak-pine and hemlock-hardwood-pine forest, ledges/steep slopes, marshes, swamps, beaver ponds, and headwater streams for Bow Lake, the Isinglass River, and the Big River. Bear-Paw is asking contributors to pledge any amount to the Biothon to support the Campaign to Save Evans Mountain and Bear-Paw’s land conservation program – a pledge form is available here or you contribute online here. All contributors to the Biothon are invited on a tour of Evans Mountain starting at 10am on the day of the event. Please preregister (and pledge) for directions!



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Hawkwatch
September 12 • 9am-12 • Evans Mountain, Strafford

Bear-Paw is hosting its first hawk watch on Evans Mountain and Scott Young will be on hand to offer help with bird identification. If the birds don’t cooperate, participants may explore this 1,015-acre property looking for other signs of wildlife.


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