Current Arb Happenings
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May 2011
Saturday, May 14th
- Annual Bird Count
- Annual Arboretum Bird Count
- 6:00 am, Arboretum Office, 710 Three Oaks Drive, and Lower Arboretum
September 2011
Thursday, September 8th
- Arboretum Volunteer Event
- Prairie Seed Collecting
- 5:30 pm, Arboretum Office, 710 Three Oaks Drive, and Lower Arboretum
October 2013
Friday, October 25th
- Fall Arb Walk
- Join the Carleton Student Naturalists for a tour of Fall in the Arboretum.
- 4:00 pm, Kiosk in front of the Recreation Center
January 2014
Wednesday, January 8th
- The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness
- Writer and professor Paul Bogard '89 speaks on his book "The End of Night: Preserving Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light"
- 7:00 pm, Boliou 104
October 2014
Saturday, October 18th
- Arboretum Volunteer Work Event
- Help with forest restoration efforts by assisting with invasive shrub removal and protection of small trees from winter deer browse.
- 9:00 am, Upper Arboretum
November 2014
Sunday, November 9th
- Arboretum Tour
- Research in the Carleton Arboretum
- 1:00 pm, Arboretum Kiosk in front of Recreation Center
Saturday, November 15th
- Arboretum Volunteer Work Event
- EVENT CANCELLED
- 9:00 am
February 2015
Saturday, February 21st
- Arboretum Volunteer Work Event
- Buckthorn and honeysuckle removal from the forests of the Upper Arboretum.
- 9:00 am
April 2015
Saturday, April 18th
- Arboretum Volunteer Work Event
- Celebrate Earth Day! Shrub planting and Invasive Species Removal
- 1:00 pm, Upper Arb - Bridge over Spring Creek
May 2015
Saturday, May 16th
- Arboretum Volunteer Work Event
- Help make the forest safe for wildflowers by removing invading non-native shrubs.
- 9:00 am, Upper Arboretum, bridge over Spring Creek
May 2019
Monday, May 20th
- Harvey Stork: Botany Professor and Founder of the Arboretum
- Andy Hoyt '19 (History) presents a profile on Harvey Stork, a former Botany Professor at Carleton and founder of the Arb.
- 7:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
