2018 – Merrimack River Hike & Picnic
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Join us for a Lowell Park’s & Conservation Trust favorite fall hike!
Read More »Hiking the Bay Circuit Trail – A Video Journal Event
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Dan & Marilyn Brielmann along with Alan French will be your guides taking you along the Bay Circuit Trail, a 200 mile natural..
Read More »PARK(ing) Day 2018
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PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary…
Read More »Water Chestnut Removal Volunteer Event
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OARS and Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust are looking for volunteers with canoes to help pull invasive water chestnut from the Concord River in Lowell and Billerica…
Read More »Your City Saturday!
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Join Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust and Lowell National Historical Park for a Your City Saturday Event!
Read More »Visit us at the Lowell Folk Festival
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Visit us in the Destination Lowell section of the festival. You can explore the watershed and test your own ideas about water pollution, our land use decisions, and how your choices impact others …
Read More »All of July: Summer Fun in the Schools
Explore the great outdoors right here in the city! Meet local wildlife. Recreate their habitat and find it along our riverbanks and in our parks. Plan a stewardship project. Collect data …
Read More »Local Youth Host Environmental Youth Conference
Lowell High School TREES & Environmental Adventure students have been hard at work throughout this school year as the organizers and planners of…
Read More »Eco-Mobile Rollout
Help us get mobile… out and about the city …
Read More »Cummings Foundation Grant
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We are pleased to be the recipient of a $100K for 100 grant from the Cummings Foundation. This Foundation knows how to walk the talk of philanthropy! More …
Read More »A Rain Garden For All!
For their student-designed service learning project, ninth graders in our COMPASS Program, developed a rain garden to reduce stormwater runoff in the alleyway next…
Read More »NH Chronicle Features Concord River Whitewater Rafting
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Local youth raft the Concord and get featured on NH Chronicle…
Read More »Land Stewardship Volunteer Orientation
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Interested in spending time outside, playing in the dirt, and being a part of protecting Lowell’s special places?
Read More »West Meadow Trail Day
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Discover one of Lowell’s hidden gems and join us for an afternoon of trail work at West Meadow.
Read More »Concord River Flatwater Kayak Trip
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Join our beloved rafting guides from Zoar Outdoor for an adventure along a seldom traveled flatwater section of the Concord River. We’ll kayak…
Read More »2018 Riverfest Event: One Fish, Two Fish…
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Join Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust for a morning of fish filled fun!
Read More »A Discussion of The Boatman : Henry David Thoreau’s River Years
During his short life, Thoreau’s opinions on the Talbot Mills Dam in North Billerica, and the Middlesex Canal through Lowell, changed back and forth several times. During his “River Years,”…
Read More »Winter Nature Scavenger Hunt
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Enjoy the fresh air and new sights as you search Hawk Valley Farm high and low…
Read More »Lowell Open Space Plan Kickoff Meeting
The City of Lowell is starting the public planning process for the 2018 Open Space and Recreation Plan…
Read More »Maple Sugaring
Learn how to create delicious sugaring products in your own backyard…
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