Peterborough Town Library, 2 Concord St. in Peterborough, will host a winter lecture series titled “Naturally NH, Conversations about wildlife and landscape.”
Each lecture will feature an expert working in the New Hampshire environmental fields. The series will kick off at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday Jan. 25, with Mike Gagnon, a forestry field specialist from UNH Extension. Gagnon will discuss the major factors that have influenced the landscape and ecology of New Hampshire over the past 10,000 years, beginning with the end of the last glaciation. Attendees can learn how forests and wildlife communities are influenced by natural disturbances and physical factors such as climate, weather, topography and soil.
Gagnon will explain how ecological communities change over time through the natural process of succession and how this is influenced by disturbance, both natural and manmade. He will also speak about his work as a forester and what resources are available to New Hampshire residents to assist them with the management and stewardship of their land.
The program is free and open to the public.
The second lecture in the series will be Thursday, Feb. 22, at 6:30pm. Matt Scaccia will discuss the history of Mount Monadnock. Scaccia is the recreation and community relations manager at the Society for the Protection of NH Forests. To find out more about these events, visit the library website at peterboroughtownlibrary.org and check out the event calendar.