Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to investigate everything that makes a rock rock; shape, size, color, material and more!

Did you know that the health of any lake is determined not only at the shoreline, but throughout the surrounding landscape, its watershed? From gardens and wooded slopes to driveways, wetlands, and backyard runoff, the lake begins uphill.

Join us for an engaging presentation by Bill Weeks, Advanced Master Gardener, about the Sunapee Uplands and the fascinating journey water takes across this glacially formed landscape before reaching the lake. Designed for gardeners, homeowners, and anyone who loves lakes, this presentation connects natural history with practical stewardship.

Discover how native plants, healthy soils, buffers, and thoughtful garden design can help slow runoff, support pollinators, and protect water quality. Along the way, you'll gain a new understanding of how your own property fits into the larger watershed—and how small actions can make a meaningful difference.

Come away with fresh ideas, a deeper appreciation for the landscape around you, and a new perspective: your garden is not separate from the lake—it is part of its protection system.

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Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to sniff out incredible facts about coyotes and why they are so clever.

Join us to celebrate! Midge Eliassen and others will present about the restoration work, now completed, on Lake Sunapee's iconic lighthouses. Learn about how this major project to rebuild the support base of two of Lake Sunapee’s historic lighthouses evolved, from LSPA’s past efforts, through the selection of a solution, then the construction of the new platforms.  We’ll also highlight this summer’s work to be sure that the wooden structures are in good shape, and to install new solar-powered light systems.  All thanks to the efforts of volunteers and very generous donors who love these iconic symbols of our lake. 

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Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to soar with the monarchs, learning about what makes them unique and the long journey they make each year.

Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to wish farewell to the warm days of summer and welcome fall and all of the special things it brings.

This erosion control field day is designed for code compliance officers, public works personnel, town boards that approve plans and service professionals working in soils, erosion control, water quality and stormwater system designs.  Click here to view a brochure for the event.

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Join LSPA for an excursion aboard the MV. MT. Sunapee II under the light of the full moon.

Refreshments will be served during this annual fundraiser for LSPA’s education programs.

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Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to fly with the raptors and find out what hawks, falcons and more are migrating south and why.

Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to traverse the magnificent world of mushrooms. With their variety different colors, shapes, and more there’s so much to explore!

Instructors from UNH T2 (Technology Transfer Center) will be spilling some hot tea about an icy topic: liquids and treated salts for winter operations! In this session, they'll discuss misconceptions and gossip about materials to help reduce chlorides in anti- and de-icing operations, and give you the straight truth about adding new materials to your winter operations toolbox (want some sugar with that?). They'll review how they work, when they work, and how to increase your program's efficiency and effectiveness, including even cost-effectiveness, while being aware of your environmental footprint. 

This workshop is geared for municipal attendees and private contractors. 

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Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to examine the wide variety of nuts and seeds in our area and where they come from.

Prepare your teams & equipment for winter with a full day "Snowfighters' Seminar" with UNH T2!  We'll review best practices & innovations in winter operations including equipment and anti-icing & de-icing options as well as information and resources to support calibration.  Discussion will include how salt works - and how it doesn't work - brine, liquids, and pre-treat & pre-wet options, as well as determining application rates from awareness of pavement and air temperature, weather forecast, and other variables.  We'll also discuss winter safety, as well as driver wellness and defensive & safe driving. 

This training is geared for private snow contractors. Emphasis on parking lots, sidewalks, and commercial site maintenance. 

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Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us for a pumpkin palooza, a celebration of the pumpkin from its seed to its stem.

Come join LSPA educators at the Center for Lake Studies to explore the natural world. Each Tuesday morning will be filled with hands-on learning through sensory experiences, guided exploration, creative play, art, and music. LSPA’s story time is designed for young children and their caregivers. Come to one session or all - each program is organized around a different ecological theme. Come join the fun! This Tuesday morning join us to learn about New Hampshire’s bats and their awesome attributes.