Activating Stewards

Inspire a Love of Nature in the Next Generation

Through a great diversity of programming, hands-on experiential learning, volunteer, and community science opportunities, LP&CT connects youth, young adults, and older adults to nature, community, and each other. For example, the after-school program Lowell Leaders in Stewardship (LLIS), a STEM-based environmental education program offered in partnership with Mass Audubon and the Lowell Public Schools, engages future generations in the stewardship of Lowell’s natural resources. In 2025, LP&CT supported 1,073 students in its after-school programs. In addition, LP&CT offered over 50 programs for people of all ages and had 579 volunteers.

Some of LP&CT’s volunteers include land stewards who are constantly monitoring properties, as well as collecting data on flora and fauna and issues with invasives.

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Current Programs - Environmental Education
Our Changing Planet: Resources
Environmental Education - Youth >>

Activating Stewards News

screech owl on a gloved hand

Curious About Raptors?

Talking Turtles at the Library!

Women In Stewardship & Community Science

Women in Science in the Merrimack

The Environmental Youth Task Force Welcomes New Applicants This Summer

Trouble at Turtle Pond – Meet the Author

Dragonfly Mercury Project – community science

Women in Science in the Merrimack

Lowell 6th graders to study phenology

Learning to make insects fun

Explore Hawk Valley Farm – Latino Conservation Week

children smiling outside holding new fishing poles

Family Outdoors Days

children smiling outside holding new fishing poles

Family Outdoors Days

Webinar: Why Do We Need Science?

turtle web camm

Turtle LIVE Webcam (7am-9pm)

group collage of 8 students

Environmental Youth Task Force to present project to Smithsonian Affliations

the merrimack - words against an image of the river and canoer

The Merrimack Film Screening

graduating high school student with father showing her diploma

Mid-Summer update

Pear trees in bloom at Shedd Park with chalk label for Arbror Day " #ArborDayatHome

Arbor Day At Home 2020

Compass and Trees flyer 2019

Lowell High School STEM After-School Programs

LP&CT Eco-mobile Creating Community through Conservation, photos on truck

Look for our new Eco-mobile at upcoming events!

3 children kneel on the ground examining a log on a tarp

What’s your curiousity quotient (CQ)?

2 High school students hang up trail blaze signs in winter at West Meadow

Changing Forest Study at West Meadow

All of July: Summer Fun in the Schools

group of teens in cafeteria doorway holding a sign that says "welcome"

Local Youth Host Environmental Youth Conference

small model ambulance with "Eco Mobile, photos of youth and rafting" table decoration. Flowers on top of truck

Eco-Mobile Rollout

teen girl paints a "rain garden" sign outdoors

A Rain Garden For All!

3 teens standing in a hole pouring dirt from a wheelbarrow, planting a new tree

Tree Planting with Middlesex Students and Habitat for Humanity

Poster with trees and a boat on the river that says "2016 National park Service)

Agua Y Ambiente: Celebrate Latino Conservation Week

5 students sit a table with a floral centerpiece, they are smiling, adults mingl in the background of the outdoor event

Congratulations Class of 2017!

5 high school students hold up "River Steward Awards", smiling by a wooden plank wall

Lowell Youth Win River Stewardship Award

LLIS Students with Representative Rady Mom before receiving the Secretary's Award for Excellence at the State House.

Lowell High Students Honored at the State House

Cummings Foundation $100K for 100

Education

The Path To Leadership in Lowell

Students Awarded Mass Cultural Council Grant

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