Insect Hunt Lithia Park

Insect Hunt Lithia Park Do you or someone that you know like to chase insects or has a budding interest? Join the Nature Shop on Sunday May 19th from 2 pm – 4 pm on a bug hunt through Lithia Park. We will be catching, identifying and having fun! This activity is open to all […]

$5

Finding Butterflies and Other Wildness

Sure to be a visual and intellectual delight! Local author David Lee Myers’ new book “Wings in the Light: Wild Butterflies in North America,” encourages us to engage nature in our own yards, countrysides, and wildish public lands. Photographs feature butterflies and habitats across North America, emphasizing those near his home territory. Myers will show […]

The State of Our Backcountry Trails: free talk at the Shop

Celebrate your local wilderness! Come learn more about the work leading up to the release of Siskiyou Mountain Club’s own map series of the Wild Rogue, Sky Lakes, and Red Buttes—newly available at the NW Nature Shop. They are by far the best maps available for exploring the aforementioned areas. Join us for this map […]

Bird Watching & Bird Feeder Making

Join Emily Lind an Audubon board member for a bird hike at Ashland Ponds. Afterwards you will get to make a bird feeder to attract birds to your home. This event is full of knowledge and crafts! Binoculars and bird identification books will be provided. Just bring water and your sense of adventure. You will […]

$5

Explorations at Vesper Meadow: SOU Graduate Student Research Stories

Meet SOU Environmental Education Graduate Students Elva Manquera, and Crytal Nichols, conducting local research as part of the new Vesper Meadow Restoration Project. Elva and Crystal’s research marks the launch of Vesper Meadow community science monitoring programs and is designed to be continued in public programs for years to come. Come hear these two “quick […]

Rogue River Watershed Council presents : Ashland Dam Removal

The Rogue River Watershed Council is implementing a fish passage improvement project on Ashland Creek at the Smith-Myer-Roper Division Dam, located in Ashland Creek Park.  The project aims to remove the dame to improve juvenile fish passage for Coho Salmon and steelhead as well as improve the irrigation system so that water users can still […]

Ashland’s Harry Potter Birthday Celebration

Northwest Nature Shop is joining with other Ashland merchants for a spectacular magical Harry Potter Birthday Party.  Stop by Northwest Nature Shop on Wednesday July 31st 1-4 pm for Butterbeer tasting! Follow the Marauders Map to visit additional fine Wizarding Establishments to celebrate the biggest day of the Wizarding Calendar: Harry Potter's (and JK Rowling's) […]

free

Hike the Parks: Redwood National & State Parks

It is truly an awe-inspiring experience to hike in a forest of the tallest trees on earth. Coast redwoods, currently the tallest trees in the world, have reached close to 400 ft and some have survived over 2000 years as well.  The trails in the Redwood National and State Parks take you through an almost […]

Free

Guided Mushroom Hike #2

This is the second of a series of 3 wild mushroom hikes offered by our local FUNgal expert Mike Potts.  He will lead a slow-paced walk through the woods to teach about the world of wild fungi. The emphasis will be on finding fungi and learning something about identification and the diversity of mushroom species. […]

$35