Have you ever gone out at dusk or after dark with a flashlight and shined it into the woods or the edge of the lawn or bushes in your yard and seen eyes that seemed to glow looking back? In what seems like another lifetime, I used to search for wolf spiders and other nocturnal animals at least once a week with 15 or so kids at a time as we ventured into the forest on night walks. We kept the beam of our flashlights low searching the sides of the trails for small, but bright l

Our volunteers are our shining lights! This past year, 29 volunteers accumulated over 380 hours of service to conservation in Sullivan County. We couldn't do all this good work without them and are so thankful. Read on to hear about 2 our amazing volunteers. Jeff and Chris Plant have lived in Cornish for over twenty years now. They moved from Keene when Jeff gat a job working in the Anesthesia Department at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) as a Nurse Anesthetist.