Ideas
for Future Content and Interaction
- Microscopic
programming showing pond water or river water
- Slide shows
of backyard visitors;
- Inviting
people who have pictures or video from their own yards to
send them ;
- To encourage
interest and participation: Mystery pictures or videos :
each show could have a mystery which will be explained in
the next show.
- Encourage
viewers to contact us with ideas for programming, visit
related websites
- Seasonal
programming: one ecosystem in different
seasons
- Edible items
in nature – invasive edibles (garlic mustard!
Better eaten young)
- Things to
stay away from and why are they so nasty to people?
Poison ivy
- Copper works
pond with history of copper works
- Red mill road
with old batting mills along canoe river, see remnants of
stone damwork; Woodward Woods used to be farm land,
contains vernal pond, remnant of old well and meadow with
cart paths
- Compare
pasture not kept clipped (Reinhard Pasture Lands) compare
with Dahl Nature Preserve that has been brush-hogged and
mowed.
- Red mill dam:
what happens when a dam built to support industry is no
longer needed and taken apart, a story repeated in many
NE towns
- Walks on all
the LPS land – 10 sites
- Focus on an
ecosystem or on a type of organism: e.g. trees, birds,
mammals, etc. and the communities they live
in.
- Some programs
on themes: invasive species; wetlands; climate
change
- Fossils? Do
we have any in Norton – why or why not?
- Canoe ride up
river “river view”– what is growing
along the river, see ducks, turtles, muskrat, etc.
butterflies’ view of flowers, etc; bird’s
view of trees, where can I live and have my nest?
Norton’s islands: who and what lives on
them.