Halifax Conservation Commission

09/23/2025

Lovely flowers, pollinators, and fall foliage in and around the Halifax Pollinator Garden. Come visit!

07/29/2025

Flowers are blooming at the Halifax Pollinator Garden! Stop by to visit anytime, at the corner of Brook and Whitneyville roads.

03/25/2025

Love these kids' posters for Green Up Day 2025!
Pitch in on Saturday, May 3. Get green garbage bags and a route at Halifax Town Office / Halifax School. After picking up your roadsides, come to the Halifax Cafe for a bite to eat and conversation with Alex Lacy from Windham Solid Waste Management District (11 AM).

10/07/2024

At the BEEC!

Join us tomorrow for the first in our Monday Meditations with Nature series at BEEC with Amanda Kenyon of www.landkindguide.com!

Join us on October 7th, 14th, 21st, & 28th from 4-5pm. Explore a variety of guided meditations and mindfulness practices that promote well-being, relaxation, and meaningful connection to the natural world. We’ll connect with Nature and our inner selves through our senses and tools that strengthen presence, calm and our relationship with the more-than-human-being community on the land.

Guided meditations may include seated meditation around a fire, walking meditations on easy terrain, breath work, mindful movement, and interactive invitations. In case of inclement weather, we’ll meet indoors at BEEC’s beautiful new education center and bring the elements of nature into the room and into our hearts.

Please register to let us know you would like to be a part of the series. Drops-ins are welcome as well. Come to the dates you are able to – no commitment is required for the full series. Suggested donation is $10-15 per session, and can be paid by either using the registration form or in-person when you arrive.

Head to www.beec.org/what-we-do/public-programs-and-events/walks-talks/ to register and for more info!

10/07/2024

Welcome, Jill!

We’re so excited to have VHCB AmeriCorps Program member Jill DeVito join the BEEC team!

Jill loves to connect people of all ages with their own curiosity about science and nature. She once wrote a dissertation about how toad tadpoles behave around garter snakes, which is appropriate because many of her favorite animals are creepy and crawly. Before moving to Vermont to spend more time in the woods, she lived in many other states – including Texas, where she taught biology for fifteen years at the University of Texas at Arlington. During that time she moonlighted as an informal educator, first at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, and later at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.

Come meet her at the Asters & Goldenrods walk this Saturday, 9/28! Head to www.beec.org to sign up.

12/20/2023

Wetlands, Beavers and Flood Resilience in the Towns of Halifax, Guilford, and Marlboro. Beavers are a keystone species: many life forms depend on the wetlands and beaver meadows beavers create. Check out our flyer about beavers and how to live peacefully with them in the neighborhood:https://czresearch.com/conservation/HalifaxBeaverflyer2021-04-13.pdf

09/11/2023

A new study shows that river barriers, similar to those built by beavers, can protect areas at risk of flooding by storing water upstream.

03/30/2023

Conservation Commission agendas and meeting minutes are on the town website at

Conservation Commission HALIFAX CONSERVATION COMMISSION Stephan Chait, Chair Laurel Copeland, Clerk Lesley Pollitt , Treasurer Mary Horne David Towler The Conservation Commission may be reached via [email protected]   Conservation Commission Meeting Agendas Conservation Commission Meeting M...

05/23/2022

From early spring through late summer, the air trills and croaks and buzzes and chirps with the sounds of nature’s little loudmouths.… This content is a

03/30/2022

Isabella Tiger Moths (we call their larvae Woolly Bears) are one of the few moths or butterflies that overwinter as caterpillars. In the fall they produce a chemical which acts like anti-freeze and…

03/28/2022

Get ready, it's just about that time again!

Salamander Crossing Brigades Photo by Dave Huth/CC BY-NC 2.0 Salamander Crossing Season 2022 is here     What are Salamander Crossings all About? Each spring, a group of amphibians migrate from their forest habitat to the small wetlands where they congregate to breed. You have all heard the chorus...