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FEBRUARY Program Guide 2020

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Fight the Frost Festival 3 | Birds of Prey Day 5 | Winter Nature Retreat 7 FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY LOCATION Off Site (CWC) CanalWay Center (MSRR) Mill Stream Run Rocky River Nature Center 2 • Kayaking 1: Basic Strokes 1 – 29 • Hunt of the Month Reservation (cont’d) 5 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 1 • Investigating Tracks 7 • Drop-In: A Century of Winter Fun 23 • Bird Banding Ray’s MTB 2 • Story and Stroll 15 • Dog Hike 23 • Cabin Fever Hike 5 • Ice Climbing Adventure Pre-Trip 4 • Snowflakes or Sunglasses? 22 • Weekend Trekking 23 • Snake School 12 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 6 • Cleveland Astronomical Society 26 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers Ray’s MTB 8 • Great Lakes Exposition 1936 – 1937 (NCR) North Chagrin Reservation Association 18 • Urban Explorations: Burke 9 • Vintage Valentines 1 • Adaptive: Snowshoe/Hike & Camp 29 • From Sun to Syrup Lakefront Airport 11 • Canalway Critters Cooking 29 • Black History Month: The Hero, 19 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 13 • Eager Eagles 1 • Try-It: Snowshoeing Garrett Morgan Ray’s MTB 14 – 17 • Great Backyard Bird Count 17 • Jr. Girl Scouts Day Hike Badge 23 • Adaptive: Kayaking 1 15 • Sloths and Sabretooths: The Ice Age 22 • Adaptive: Snowshoe/Hike & Camp (SCR) South Chagrin Reservation 23 • Kayaking 1: Basic Strokes in Ohio Cooking 1 • Cleveland Natural Science Club 26 • Urban Explorations: Burke 15 • Snow Hike 22 • Try-It: Snowshoeing 2 • One Trail Twelve Times Lakefront Airport 15 – 16 • Drop In: Build a Birdfeeder 29 • Sleeping Giants 7 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert 26 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 15 • How the Ohio and Erie Canal Series: Bill Lestock Trio Ray’s MTB Created Cleveland (NCNC) North Chagrin Nature 8 • Nature’s Palette: Stories About Color 26 • Kayaking 2: Rescues 16 • Lower 40 Loop Locomotion Center 8 • Nature Journaling 16 • Cargo Ships 1 • Birds and Coffee 14 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert (AR) Acacia Reservation 17 • Presidents’ Day Promenade 1 • Saturday Night Speaker Series: Series: Brittany Riley Band 27 • New Moon Hike 18 • All About Squirrels Savoring Sicily 15 • Winter Nature Retreat 19 • Dabble with Ducks 2 • Don’t be a Groundhog Play Day 21 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert (BeR) Bedford Reservation 19 • Young Explorers 3 • North Chagrin Nature Photography Series: Thorne Musica 1 • Frozen Waterfalls Hike 20 • The Frog with a Superpower Club: Hard Water 23 • Craft Workshop: Upcycled Tote Bag 4 • Winter Waterfall 22 • Fight the Frost Festival 8 • Surviving in a Beaver’s World 28 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert 6 • Cross-Country Skiing 1: Strides – Cookies and Cocoa 8 • Saturday Night Speaker Series: Series: The Swamp Rattlers 11 • Winter Beeches – Carpet Skating Spring in the British Isle 29 • Nature Writing 13 • Cross-Country Skiing 1: Strides – Snow Play 9 • Love Bug Valentine Card Making 18 • Hiking for the Young at Heart – Feathers at the Feeder 13 • Our Treasured Trees Lecture Series (WSC) Watershed Stewardship 22 • Woodlands of Bedford: Winter – Winter Walk 15 • Sweetheart Hike Center Wonderland Trek – Winter Weather 15 • Cabin Fever Folk Tales 6 • Monthly Movie: Inventing Tomorrow 23 • Cross-Country Skiing 1: Strides 23 • Winter Weeds 15 • Pre-K Nature Play 7 • FrogWatch Citizen Science 25 • Forbes Forest 23 • Train Training Talk 15 • Saturday Night Speaker Series: 8 • Drop-by: Papermaking for Our 27 • Outdoor Adventures for 26 • Discovery Days: The Mitten Ghosts of El Dorado Valentines Homeschoolers: Frozen Waterfalls 26 • Wednesday Walk 18 • Little Ducklings: Snow 8 • Tales Around the Emerald Necklace Hike 29 • Backyard Birds 21 • Family Friday Night: The Fantastic 15 • Boneheads for Boneheads 29 • Winter Woodland Wandering Four 20 • For Adults Only: Birds I (CMZ) Cleveland Metroparks Zoo 22 • Dog Hike 21 • For Adults Only: Birds II (BCR) Big Creek Reservation 1 • Boy Scout Vet Badge Overnight 23 • Winter Kids Play Day 22 • For Adults Only: Birds III 7 • Fullish Moon Friday Hike 7 • Tiger Tracks Overnight 22 • Scouts BSA Merit Badge: Mammal 8 • Tiger Tracks Overnight (RRNC) Rocky River Nature Center Study I (BNC) Brecksville Nature Center 11 • Homeschool – Marsupials in the 1 – 27 • Gallery Wall: Gabe Leidy 23 • Scouts BSA Merit Badge: Mammal 1 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* Land Down Under 1 • Geology Drop By Study II 2 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 17 • Zoo Career Day 2 • Super Mammals Hike 29 • Bedazzled Bugs 2 • Drop-in Discovery: Groundhogs 21 • Tiger Tracks Overnight 2 • What’s a Whistle Pig? Day 22 • Tiger Tracks Overnight 4 • Western Cuyahoga Audubon (WCR) West Creek Reservation 5 • Animal Crackers 28 • Tiger Tracks Overnight Society 8 • New Trail Exploration Hike 7 • Almost Full Moon Hike 29 • Cub Scout Adventure Overnight 4 • Trout Unlimited 14 • “Coup-Owls” Hike 8 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 5 • Northern Ohio Association of 19 • West Creek Night Hike: Stories of 9 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* (ECR) Euclid Creek Reservation Herpetologists the Stars 9 • Full Moon Hike: The Snow Moon 21 • Phenology Friday Hike 5 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers 21 • Frosty Forests Hike 15 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 29 • Birds Along the Creek Association 15 • Drop-in Discovery: Flint & Steel 6 • Little Explorers: Frozen 15 • Pie Iron Cooking: Dinner Entrées (GPC) Garfield Park Center 7 • Nature Baby: Dunkleosteus ABBREVIATIONS: 16 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 1 • Groundhog Day Discovery 8 • Bird Walk AR Acacia Reservation 16 • Drop-in Discovery: Ohio Mammals 7 • Winter Wellness Walk 8 • Homemade Suet BCR Big Creek Reservation 16 • Evening Movie 14 • Heart Healthy Hike 8 • Love Bug BeR Bedford Reservation 20 • Nurture with Nature 18 • Winter Backpacking Pre-Trip 9 • Birds of Prey Day BNC Brecksville Nature Center 21 • Breakfast for the Birds 10 • Southwest Camera Club BR Brookside Reservation 22 • Read and Feed (HiR) Hinckley Reservation 10 • Cuyahoga Astronomical Association BrR Brecksville Reservation 12 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers 22 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 2 • Worden’s in Winter BWR Bradley Woods Reservation Association 23 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* CMZ Cleveland Metroparks Zoo 23 • Sunday Crafternoon: Pinecone (HuR) Huntington Reservation 13 • Bat Romance CWC CanalWay Center 15 • Star-Crossed Lovers ECR Euclid Creek Reservation Masterpieces 16 • Winter Stinks! 23 • Stories with the Stars: Winter 16 • Snake School GPC Garfield Park Center 18 • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Constellations (LR) Lakefront Reservation GPR Garfield Park Reservation 29 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 19 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers HiR Hinckley Reservation 2 • Gulls Galore Association HuR Huntington Reservation 5 • Migrators on the River (BrR) Brecksville Reservation 20 • Homeschool Happenings: Book LR Lakefront Reservation 5 • Waterbirds at Wendy Study MSRR Mill Stream Run Reservation 1 • Emerald Necklace Art Club 5 • Skills & Thrills Series 22 • Family Hike NCNC North Chagrin Nature Center 15 • Extreme Hiking 7 • Birds of the Lakefront 22 • Fauna Folklore NCR North Chagrin Reservation 19 • Skills & Thrills Series 22 • Black History Month: Phillis OECR Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation (BR) Brookside Reservation 28 • The River That Changed a Nation Wheatley Association RRNC Rocky River Nature Center 1 • Balto: Hero of Brookside RRR Rocky River Reservation SCR South Chagrin Reservation NEW THIS ISSUE! Look for the child’s hand symbol next to programs that are designed for our WR Washington Reservation youngest audience. These programs provide education about nature or wildlife with indoor or WCR West Creek Reservation outdoor activities, story-telling, crafts or sing-alongs in a fun, non-competitive environment. WSC Watershed Stewardship Center

2 Emerald Necklace February 2020 | Vol. 69 #2 * See feature block on page 3 for Hand-feed a Chickadee FREE ALL DAY ACTIVITIES! FIGHT THE FROST Join the CanalWay staff and cure your cabin fever with both inside and outside activities for all ages. Join us all day for: • Cookies and Cocoa • Carpet Skating FESTIVAL • Snow Play • Feathers at the Feeder Saturday, February 22 Noon – 4 p.m. Plus other indoor & outdoor activities: CanalWay Center Winter Weather Winter Walk Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation This program will discuss the Join us for a 30 minute walk into the power of water in the winter. Cuyahoga River Valley. We’ll discuss 4524 E. 49th St., Cleveland, OH 44125 The frosty demonstrations some of the birds and other wildlife For more information: 216-206-1000 will last approximately that stay active here all winter long. or clevelandmetroparks.com 20 – 30 minutes. 12:30, 2:00 and 3:30 p.m. 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Terrain: paved trail, 1 mile

Programs for Young Children FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE

Birds and Coffee Balto: Hero of Brookside Investigating Tracks 1 – 29 • FEBRUARY Drop in anytime during the posted Learn the story behind this Become a detective while enjoying Hunt of the Month: Boots hours to brush up on your bird sled dog’s Alaskan journey and the outdoors. We’ll look for clues in This month join us as we hunt for I.D. skills and enjoy a hot cup of connection to our Cleveland the snow telling us which animals are missing boots. We have hidden 20 coffee as we watch for cardinals, community. Balto’s heroic out and what they are doing. If there boots around the center for you woodpeckers, chickadees and expeditions will captivate is no snow, we will hike anyway. to find. After finding them, lace up more through our one-way glass children and adults alike, as his 2 – 3 p.m. CWC your boots and take a hike of your windows. tale is told along the trail. Age: 6 – 12 years with adult own! 10 a.m. – noon NCNC 1 – 2:30 p.m. BR Terrain: paved, natural surface, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mon. – Sun. Nature Education Building Meadow Ridge Picnic Area muddy, 1 mile CWC Terrain: paved, natural surfaces, Groundhog Day Discovery hills, ice possible, 2 miles Frozen Waterfalls Hike Learn about groundhogs 440-887-1968 Join Naturalist Pam Taylor as we 1 – 27 • FEBRUARY on this “shadowy” occasion. We’ll trudge into the gorge of Bedford enjoy a story, make a craft and Geology Drop By Reservation in search of seasonal Gallery Wall: Gabe Leidy take a short walk. Stop by to learn about the rocks waterfalls. Frozen or not, you won’t From the Hocking Hills to the 10 – 11:30 a.m. GPC in the Rocky River Valley. See want to miss this hike! Be sure to shores of Lake Erie, Gabe Leidy Age: 3 – 5 years with adult samples of the different rocks dress appropriately, the trail may strives to capture the natural Terrain: possibly icy, 0.25 mile and discover what they are made be icy. beauty found right here in the Register by phone of and what that tells us about 2 – 4:30 p.m. BeR Buckeye State and beyond! Come beginning January 20 the earth’s history. Egbert Picnic Area check out this gallery of Gabe’s 216-341-1707 1 – 4 p.m. RRNC Terrain: strenuous hills, 2.5 – 3 miles favorite all-time captures. 440-526-1012 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. RRNC

1 • SATURDAY Saturdays & Sundays • February 1 – 29 Emerald Necklace Art Club Draw and paint with us! Members Hand-Feed a Chickadee of the Emerald Necklace Art 10 a.m. – noon Club are invited to bring their favorite medium as we Brecksville Nature Center appreciate the signs of the Looking for something to do with your family and season. Not a member? Sign up at clevelandmetroparks.com/ENAC friends? Stop by to hand-feed the chickadees. 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. BrR We’ll supply the black oil sunflower seed Age: adults and instructions that help make this Annual fee: $30; Renewal: $20 experience one to remember. 440-473-3370 Now through February 29.

For all Outdoor Recreation activities, see page 11 for a complete listing.

clevelandmetroparks.com 3 Programs for Young Children FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE Boy Scout Veterinary Medicine Story and Stroll Animal Crackers Badge Overnight Come in out of the cold 4 • TUESDAY Join Miss Jenny as we search Boy Scouts will learn what it and join Naturalist Natalie Snowflakes or for signs of mammals and their takes to become a veterinarian Schroder in the Nature Nook. Sunglasses? tracks through a hike, activities and and the many different types We will read two stories about Winter looks very different than a craft. of job opportunities within this the winter season. Afterwards, summer. Bring your pre­schooler to 10 – 11:15 a.m. or 1 – 2:15 p.m. profession. Program covers all we will head outside for a short learn what is unique about winter. We’ll BNC items required to earn Veterinary walk to see who is active. do a craft and take a hike. Trailside Program Center Medicine Merit Badge. 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. CWC 10 – 11 a.m. CWC Age: 3 – 5 years with adult 7 p.m. – 10 a.m. CMZ Age: 5 years & under with adult Age: 3 – 5 years with adult Terrain: mostly flat, 0.5 mile Age: 6 years & over with adult Terrain: paved, may be icy, up Terrain: paved, 0.5 – 1 mile Register by phone Fee: $42 to 0.5 mile beginning January 20 Register online Winter Waterfall 440-526-1012 Super Mammals Hike Join Naturalist Jake Kudrna on a hike Cleveland Natural Science While groundhogs are down to the Great Falls of Tinker’s Northern Ohio Association of Club: Secret Lives of Turkey hibernating, other furry animals Creek with hopes of a snowy scene. Herpetologists Vultures are still active in the park. We 1 – 2 p.m. BeR Twinsburg Naturalist Stanley Stine Enjoy footage from hidden trail will hike around looking for Viaduct Park parking lot will give a brief history of the cameras that have captured mammals as well as their tracks Terrain: paved, natural surface, hills, park’s natural habitat and how it what turkey vultures are really and scat along the trail. potential for ice, 1 mile was preserved. He will also discuss up to when no one is around. Noon – 1 p.m. RRNC 216-206-1000 the wide variety of reptiles and Presentation by Naturalist Tami Terrain: natural surface, 2 miles amphibians in Northeast Ohio. Gingrich of the Geauga Park Trout Unlimited 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. RRNC One Trail Twelve Times District. Join us for a presentation from the Embrace the changing of Greater Cleveland Beekeepers 7:30 – 9 p.m. SCR Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating seasons over the course of Association: Beginner Look About Lodge Agency (NOACA), a federally a year with Naturalist Selby Beekeeping Course 440-473-3370 designated water quality planning Majewski Bean. We’ll observe entity for Greater Cleveland. They This four-part course is for anyone Saturday Night Speaker Series: and photograph the natural address water quality on a regional interested in learning more Savoring Sicily cycle of plant and animal life basis, at the watershed level, and about honey bees and can help Take a tour of the sights and in an area where the forest within individual communities. you decide if beekeeping is for wonders of Sicily with Kathy has recently undergone major 7 – 9 p.m. RRNC you. Topics include basic honey Coffman, who will detail her change. bee biology and beekeeping visits to Greek temples, Roman 1:30 – 3 p.m. SCR Western Cuyahoga Audubon techniques, best management ruins and stunning scenic views. The Shelterhouse Picnic Area Society: Shaping the Air – The practices, bee diseases and more. 7:30 – 9 p.m. NCNC Terrain: hilly, natural surface, up Structure of Bird Wings 6:45 – 9 p.m. RRNC to 3 miles Bird wings are iconic symbols of speed Fee: $75 440-473-3370 or flight, but beneath the feathers is a Register online or at 2 • SUNDAY system of bones, muscles and tendons greaterclevelandbeekeepers.com What’s a Whistle Pig? that governs flight mechanics. Dr. Gulls Galore Curious about the seemingly Join Naturalist Jen Brumfield for Tobin Hieronymus of NEOMED will odd tradition of Groundhog explore the evolutionary­ story and 6 • THURSDAY a workshop on gull identification. Day? Join a naturalist to find anatomy of bird wings. Little Explorers: Frozen We’ll sort through thousands of out how this holiday came to 7:30 – 9 p.m. RRNC Bring your little explorer to common gulls looking for rare be and learn about the star of learn about snow and ice. We’ll winter specialties. Meet by the the show: the groundhog! read a story, make a craft and fishing pier. 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. RRNC 5 • WEDNESDAY explore the winter wonderland in 10 – 11 a.m. LR Terrain: few hills, natural Migrators on the River our forest. The cold never bothered Edgewater Park surface, 0.5 mile Terrain: mostly flat, icy, 0.5 mile We’ll walk the Scranton Flats portion us, anyway! 440-734-6660 Worden’s in Winter of the towpath in search of waterfowl. 10 – 11 a.m. or 1 – 2 p.m. RRNC Worden’s Ledges are beautiful This revitalized area provides habitat Age: 3 – 5 years with adult Drop-in Discovery: anytime of the year. Join for winter migrators. Meet at the Terrain: mostly flat, potential ice, Groundhog Day Naturalist Kelly McGinnis to Cleveland Script Sign – Tremont. 1 mile Groundhogs, woodchucks learn about the carvings and 10 – 11 a.m. LR Register by phone or whistle pigs? Stop by and explore this area in winter. Parking lot at the corner of Abbey Ave. January 18 – February 4 celebrate Groundhog Day by 3 – 4 p.m. HiR and W. 14th St. 440-734-6660 learning about this common Worden’s Trailhead Terrain: paved, possible ice, up to Cleveland Astronomical Society: Ohio mammal. Terrain: hills, rocky, possibly icy, 2 miles The Violent Lives of Cluster 10 a.m. – noon BNC 1 mile 216-206-1000 Galaxies 440-526-1012 Don’t be a Groundhog Waterbirds at Wendy Chris Mihos from CWRU Astronomy Play Day Join Naturalist Jen Brumfield to seek explains how galaxy clusters are Groundhogs are still snuggled 3 • MONDAY wintering ducks, geese, gulls and other the most massive structures in the up for their long winter’s sleep, waterbirds in the greater Cleveland universe. As galaxies orbit within but kids are ready to play. North Chagrin Nature harbor off of Wendy Park. Meet in the the cluster, they collide frequently Families are welcome to stop in Photography Club: Hard lot just east of Whiskey Island Marina. with one another, leading to a for some winter special fun and Water 10 – 11 a.m. LR dramatic transformation of the adventure in the nature center. Bring in seven pictures with Wendy Park cluster galaxy population. 10 a.m. – noon NCNC snow, ice or frost as one of the Terrain: mostly flat, icy, 0.5 mile 6:30 – 7 p.m. Meeting CWC important features. 440-734-6660 7 – 8:30 p.m. Speaker CWC 7 – 8:30 p.m. NCNC 4 Emerald Necklace February 2020 FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE Monthly Movie: Inventing Almost Full Moon Hike Tomorrow Experience the sights and sounds Birds of Prey Day This 2018 documentary insists of a winter evening with Naturalist Sunday, February 9 that the future is brighter Jenny McClain as the waxing gibbous than we think. It follows moon lights the way. We’ll look and 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. passionate teenage innovators listen for calling owls, flying squirrels, Rocky River Nature Center as they prepare projects for and other nocturnal wildlife. Don’t miss the incredible free opportunity to view hawks, owls and the Intel International Science 6:30 – 8 p.m. BNC falcons up close! Get close encounters with live birds of prey in live & Engineering Fair. You’ll be Terrain: icy,stairs, hills, up to 2 miles bird shows, enjoy a hike and presentations from some of Northeast inspired by these teens tackling Fullish Moon Friday Hike Ohio’s foremost raptor experts. Presentations by Medina Raptor the world’s environmental Center, Ohio School of Falconry and Lake Erie Nature & Science Center. threats. Explore the Lake-to-Lake Trail after 7 – 9 p.m. WSC dark to discover which of our local animals are moving about in this New Trail Exploration Hike Drop by: Papermaking for Our urban park under the moonlight. Explore the new Center Loop Valentines 7 • FRIDAY 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. BCR Singletrack at West Creek Create some eco-friendly valentines Lake Isaac parking lot Birds of the Lakefront Reservation. Curving through by making your own paper! Give a Terrain: paved, boardwalk, level, road The Cleveland Lakefront Nature mature forested hillsides, this path special someone this unique, plant- crossings, 5 miles Preserve is a well-known haven is sheltered from fierce February based gift. 440-887-1968 for birds. Join Naturalist Jake winds. 1 – 3:30 p.m. WSC 9:30 – 11 a.m. WCR Age: adults, 10 years & over with Kudrna on a hike through this Look About Lodge Fireside human-made oasis in search Monarch Bluff Picnic Area adult Concert Series Terrain: paved, natural surfaces, of our feathered friends. Bring The Bill Lestock Trio is coming Love Bug binoculars, some available to gentle inclines, 3 miles back to Look About Lodge. Bill is a 440-887-1968 We will start by learning about borrow. phenomenal mandolin player and the different parts of insects and 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. LR songwriter. This evening will be Nature’s Palette: Stories About spiders. Then we will build bugs Lakefront Reservation filled with original mandolin pieces Color out of recycled materials and craft Administration Building with blends of baroque, blues and Are you fascinated by color? In this supplies! Terrain: natural surface, potential bluegrass. monthly lecture series we’ll explore 2 – 3 p.m. RRNC for ice, 2 miles 7 – 8:15 p.m. SCR the importance of color culturally, Age: 4 – 8 years with adult 216-206-1000 Look About Lodge historically, and in nature. Register online Fee: $5 Nature Baby: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. SCR January 17 – February 7 Register online Dunkleosteus Look About Lodge December 18 – February 5 Great Lakes Exposition The winter forest is awaiting so Age: adults 440-473-3370 440-473-3370 1936 – 1937 let’s get baby out to explore. The biggest party Cleveland’s We’ll check out the model of Drop in: A Century of Winter Fun Homemade Suet ever seen was held on a lakefront Dunkleosteus inside the nature Cleveland Metroparks visitors Naturalist Beth Whiteley will show garbage dump! Historical center, then hike to the river to have enjoyed winter recreation you how to make your own suet Interpreter Doug Kusak reveals explore the shale rocks that once for generations. While enjoying cakes that will attract wintering how Cleveland celebrated its held Dunk’s fossil remains. your dollar hot dogs, join Historian birds to your feeders. Participants 100th birthday in the midst of the 10 – 11 a.m. RRNC Judy MacKeigan for an indoor and will go home with four cakes Great Depression, showing off its Age: 3 years & under with adult informal program featuring photos of suet made from natural bird industrial might and its cultural and Terrain: mostly flat, natural and stories of winters past. enticing ingredients. natural history. surface, 0.5 mile 7 – 9 p.m. MSRR 10:30 a.m. – noon RRNC 2 – 3:30 p.m. CWC Register online The Chalet Age: adults, 6 years & over with Register online January 24 – February 6 216-954-3402 participating adult beginning January 21 Fee: $5 Winter Wellness Walk Tiger Tracks Overnight Surviving in a Beaver’s World Beat your winter blues on this Register online Over the course of the evening, by February 1 A beaver’s world is fascinating. frosty forest walk. Relax your campers will track an Amur tiger There are many legends told about mind, body, and spirit as we through the taiga, look for clues that Nature Journaling this aquatic rodent and true tales unwind amongst the trees and they have been in the habitat and Experience nature through the in history and science that will wildlife of the winter forest. explore the many ways that tigers seasons. We will record our captivate you. Bring a spirit of 10 – 11:30 a.m. GPC survive in the Russian Far East. observations in a journal of our curiosity as we learn indoors and Garfield Park Center parking lot 7 p.m. – 10 a.m. CMZ own creation. You may want to outdoors near a beaver’s lodge. Terrain: natural surface, some Age: 6 years & over with adult bring a camera. 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. NCNC hills, 1.25 miles Fee: $42 1 – 3 p.m. SCR Terrain: natural surfaces, 0.3 mile 216-341-1707 Register online Look About Lodge Tales Around the Emerald FrogWatch Citizen Science Age: adults Annual fee: $20 (supplies) Necklace Don’t croak—monitoring frogs 8 • SATURDAY Call it traditional storytelling, is fun. This introductory training Terrain: natural surfaces, Bird Walk 0.5 – 1 mile spoken word performance will give you the tools to identify or narrative theater. Excellent frogs in our region. Learn to listen The Second Saturday walks are a Register online great opportunity for birders of all January 20 – February 5 storytelling artists bring for their calls and help us gauge entertaining and enlightening the health of our amphibian skill levels to enjoy the woods and 440-473-3370 wetlands around the nature center. stories to you. After hearing their populations through citizen tales, enjoy refreshments and tales science. Meet in the parking lot. 9 a.m. – noon RRNC shared by audience members. 6 – 7:30 p.m. WSC 7 – 8:30 p.m. WSC Age: adults, teens Terrain: natural surface, 2 miles clevelandmetroparks.com 5 Programs for Young Children FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE Tiger Tracks Overnight Cuyahoga Astronomical “Coup-Owls” Hike (Details) Association: Lucy in the Sky 13 • THURSDAY Join a naturalist on a search for owls 7 p.m. – 10 a.m. CMZ with Asteroids! “coupling” up for the breeding season. CAA member Kai Getrost will “Whooo” knew that owls celebrated Saturday Night Speaker Series: talk about NASA’s Lucy mission Valentine’s Day, too? Dress warmly Spring in the British Isles to explore the Trojan asteroids. for this hoot of a program. Enjoy Join Jane Baldwin on a journey Learn why scientists are so complimentary hot chocolate along through four lesser-known gardens interested in these asteroids the way. and natural areas in England and near Jupiter and how amateur Eager Eagles 6:30 – 8 p.m. WCR Ireland. astronomers are helping Join Naturalist Jake Kudrna on Monarch Bluff Picnic Area 7:30 – 9 p.m. NCNC scientists obtain data to plan the a mission to observe the bald Terrain: paved, natural surfaces, mission. eagles of Ohio & Erie Canal 2 miles 9 • SUNDAY 7:30 – 9 p.m. RRNC Reservation as they prepare 440-887-1968 their nest for mating season. Birds of Prey Day 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. CWC Look About Lodge Fireside Concert: (see feature on page 5) 11 • TUESDAY Terrain: paved, natural surface, Brittany Riley Band potential for ice, hills, 3 miles Northeast Ohio singer/songwriter 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. RRNC Homeschool: Marsupials in the Brittany Riley will be bringing her Land Down Under Vintage Valentines Bat Romance band to the lodge for a dynamic Marsupials are unique animals. Ever wonder how the holiday Learn about courtship behaviors concert full of soulful bluegrass, Join us as we discover more of Valentine’s Day got its start? Join in animals. Take home some country and roots music. about these animals, their us to make homemade cards using saucy facts to share with your 7 – 8:15 p.m. SCR habitats and adaptations. some natural elements while we loved ones this Valentine’s Day. Look About Lodge 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. CMZ learn some of the holiday’s history. 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. RRNC Fee: $5 The RainForest 2 – 3 p.m. CWC Register online Age: grades K – 8 with adult Our Treasured Trees Lecture Age: adults, 4 years & over with December 18 – February 12 Fee: $10 member/ Series adult 440-473-3370 Join us for an in-depth year-long Fee: $2 $15 nonmember celebration of trees. We will Register online Register online explore the cultural and natural beginning January 21 15 • SATURDAY Canalway Critters history of our favorite treasured Love Bug Valentine Your preschooler will trees that beautify Northeast Extreme Hiking Card Making love this immersive learning Ohio landscapes. February’s This “extreme hike” is one of the Stop in the nature center to make experience in the natural world. featured trees are white pine, shorter ones, but the scenery is some bug-themed Valentine’s Join Naturalist Natalie Schroder red oak and black cherry. spectacular! Final distance will depend Day cards. Children will learn to on a search for clues to find out 7 – 8 p.m. NCNC upon weather and trail conditions. appreciate and enjoy insects as they who is trekking through the Peer-to-peer carpooling is necessary in order to get back to our starting make take-home cards for friends. snow. Please dress to be outside. 14 • FRIDAY 2 – 4:30 p.m. NCNC 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. or location. 9 a.m. – noon BrR 1 – 2:15 p.m. CWC Heart Healthy Hike Jaite Wayside (Vaughn Road) Age: 3 – 5 years with adult February is Heart Awareness parking lot Terrain: paved, natural surface, month. What better way to Terrain: hills, creeks, 5 – 7 miles may be icy, 0.75 mile get a healthy heart than by 440-526-1012 Register online hiking with us at Garfield Park Full Moon Hike: The Snow Moon January 17 – February 8 Reservation? See you there. Drop-in Discovery: Flint & Steel Join us for a short hike under the full 9 – 10:30 a.m. GPC Winter Beeches How did people start fire before Snow Moon. We’ll finish with some Garfield Park Center parking lot Join a naturalist to hike among lighters or matches were invented? hot cocoa, an activity, and a folktale Terrain: gravel, paved, stairs, hills, the beech trees that thrive in the Stop by to learn the primitive method or two, all revolving around snow! 1.5 miles uplands of Tinker’s Creek. We’ll of striking flint against steel to create a 8 – 9 p.m. BNC 216-341-1707 discuss their value to winter spark, the first step in starting a fire. Trailside Program Center wildlife and what may threaten 10 a.m. – noon BNC Age: adults, 8 years & over with their survival in Eastern U.S. adult forests. Terrain: flat, slippery, 0.5 mile 2 – 3:30 p.m. BeR Great Backyard Bird Count Register by phone Bridal Veil Falls parking lot Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday beginning February 1 Terrain: natural surface, hills, 440-526-1012 February 14 – 17 potential for ice, 2 miles 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. • CanalWay Center 216-206-1000 Stop by anytime between February 14 – 17 to help count backyard 10 • MONDAY birds. People across the continent will be doing the same. We’ll have Southwest Camera Club 12 • WEDNESDAY a list of the birds you might see, field guides and binoculars to use. We will begin with a panel Greater Cleveland Beekeepers discussion on cameras and Plus… Drop In: Build a Birdfeeder Association: Beginner photography, followed by a Saturday & Sunday Beekeeping Course competition. Categories are Nature February 15 & 16 Class 2 of 4 and Pictorial. Each club member 9:30 a.m. – noon • CanalWay Center (Details) may enter two images in each This weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count, 6:45 – 9 p.m. RRNC category. Nonmembers can learn stop by CanalWay Center to see what birds are from our judges’ critiques. visiting our feeders. We’ll have supplies to build 7:30 – 9 p.m. RRNC a birdfeeder for your home. 6 Emerald Necklace February 2020 FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE Sweetheart Hike Winter Stinks! No reservations or black Skunks begin to emerge from Winter Nature Retreat tie needed. Lace up your their dens this time of year to Saturday, February 15 hiking boots and explore the find mates before spring. Think 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. SCR Buttermilk Falls Trail with your thoughts of warmer weather as Look About Lodge sweetheart. Next, cozy up by the you learn about other animals Get rid of your winter blues and embrace campfire and enjoy a cup of hot that are starting their families for the season with a day-long retreat into chocolate. spring. nature. We will hike or snowshoe through 3 – 4:30 p.m. NCNC 1 – 2 p.m. HuR a hemlock forest, do some creative Terrain: natural surface, may be Wolf Picnic Area journaling and needle-felting, and icy, 1.5 miles Terrain: natural surface, 1.5 miles meet a live owl. Lunch provided. 440-734-6660 Dog Hike Age: adults Bring your furry family member Cargo Ships Fee: $60 out to get fresh air and exercise. Cleveland is a port city and Terrain: hills, roots, up to 1 mile Beat cabin fever and learn some ships are vital to our economy. Register online fun nature facts while walking Historical Interpreter Doug January 20 – February 7 with a naturalist. Dogs must be Kusak will help you understand 440-473-3370 on leash. Walkers without dogs how these behemoths of also welcome. transportation work, and where Cabin Fever Folk Tales Snow Hike 3:30 – 5 p.m. MSRR you can go to see them in Are you and the children around Join a naturalist for an afternoon South Quarry Picnic Area action. you getting stir crazy? Take a break winter hike. We’ll walk part of the Terrain: natural surface, 1 mile 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. CWC and join Naturalist Foster Brown for Mountain Bike Trail to explore 440-734-6660 Register online an hour of funny animal tales and the winter wonderland of the beginning January 21 legends that will help break through park. If there is at least 4 – 6 Saturday Night Speaker the winter doldrums. inches of snow cover, snowshoes Series: Ghosts of El Dorado Evening Movie 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. NCNC will be available for a fee and by Karen Beck will share a historic Bring the family to learn about reservations only. If no snow, we and informative look at the gold our local owls. We’ll then enjoy Sloths and Sabretooths: The Ice Age will still enjoy a free hike. and silver rushes of the Colorado the movie Hoot. Popcorn will be in Ohio 1 – 2:30 p.m. CWC Rockies. Hear tales of failure provided. Bring a comfortable Did you know mammoths once Age: adults and fortune amidst incredible chair. roamed Ohio or that ice hundreds of Fee: $9 (snowshoes) scenery, told through the voices 6 – 8 p.m. BNC feet thick once covered the spot you Terrain: snow covered trail, of the ghost towns. Trailside Program Center are standing on? Join us at CanalWay 1 – 2 miles 7:30 – 9 p.m. NCNC Register by phone Center as we talk about the Ice Age Register by phone beginning February 1 and the animals that lived then. beginning February 1 440-526-1012 11 a.m. – noon CWC 216-206-1000 16 • SUNDAY Age: 9 – 12 years with adult Drop-in Discovery: How the Ohio and Erie Canal 17 • MONDAY Ohio Mammals Star Lab: Star-Crossed Lovers Created Cleveland Drop by the Brecksville Nature Zoo Career Day What better way to celebrate The 1832 opening of the Ohio Center to touch some pelts, Explore the professional fields Valentine’s Day than by learning and Erie Canal created an learn about our Ohio mammals, of animal care, veterinary about the destined and doomed love economic boom that drew and then make a craft to take medicine, education and more. stories written in the stars. Each short hundreds of entrepreneurs home. Get close with small animals, program will take place inside Rocky westward to find their fortunes. 10 a.m. – noon BNC meet the Zoo staff, take a River Nature Center’s StarLab. Historian Judy MacKeigan shares behind-the-scenes tour and get 11:30 a.m. – noon, 1 – 1:30 p.m., the history of Ohio’s “Big Ditch” Lower 40 Loop Locomotion a closer look at the real work or 2 – 2:30 p.m. RRNC and its impact on Northeast Historical Interpreter Doug involved with these exciting Age: adults, 14 years & over with adult Ohio. Kusak is your guide on a hike careers. Register online 3 – 4 p.m. CWC from CanalWay Center, down 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. CMZ February 1 – 14 Age: adults, 12 years & over with to the Lower 40 Loop Trail, and Reinberger Education Center adult Pre-K Nature Play back. We’ll keep moving to stay Age: grades 5 – 8 warm. Immerse your child in a sensory Pie Iron Cooking: Dinner Fee: $47 member/$52 10 – 11 a.m. CWC exploration of nature’s wonder during Entrées nonmember Terrain: paved, hill, 1.5 miles this indoor/outdoor program. Local Cooking over the fire and coals Register online weather and wildlife will provide the really is quite simple, if you have Snake School backdrop for our physical movement, the right tools. Join us for a pie Join Naturalist Jen Brumfield Presidents’ Day Promenade language, and fine motor skills iron dinner. We’ll prepare a few to learn the how-to’s of snakes! Historical Interpreter Doug exercises. different recipes to share. Pie We’ll have up close encounters Kusak is your guide on a hike 1 – 2 p.m. NCNC irons and all the makings will be with a live snake at the nature from CanalWay Center to the Age: 3 – 5 years with adult provided. center and learn how to find Furnace Ridge Overlook, and Terrain: natural surface, up to 0.5 mile 3 – 4:30 p.m. BNC them. Indoor program. back. We’ll cover a bit of history Trailside Program Center 10 – 11 a.m. RRNC while we keep moving to stay Boneheads to Boneheads warm. In regards to our anatomy, we are Age: adults, 12 years & over with Age: 4 – 12 years with adult participating adult 1 – 3 p.m. CWC all boneheads. What can a skull tell Terrain: paved, hill, 3 miles you about an animal? Come learn Fee: $5 how skulls can help with wildlife Register online identification. February 1 – 10 1 – 2:30 p.m. WSC clevelandmetroparks.com 7 Programs for Young Children FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE Jr. Girl Scouts Day Hike Badge Project Healing Waters Fly Take a step back in time as we Fishing: Using Composite 20 • THURSDAY 21 • FRIDAY explore the old growth forest at Dubbing Techniques Homeschool Happenings: Breakfast for the Birds North Chagrin Reservation. Meet at Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Book Study Did you know that every bird has the A.B. Williams trailhead and we’ll is dedicated to the physical and Homeschoolers will be asked its own special tool to eat their hike to the overlook to observe emotional rehabilitation of active to read McCrephy’s Field by food? Join Seasonal Naturalist winter wildlife up close. military personnel and veterans Christopher A. and Lynne Born Georgia Tillotson for a mid-winter 1 – 2:30 p.m. NCR who are disabled through fly Meyers before attending the program about bird beak Forest Picnic Area fishing and associated activities. program. Students will explore adaptations. Get the chance to Age: 9 – 11 years with adult Program open to veterans or the concepts of the book through make and take-home feeders for Fee: $2 persons interested in volunteering naturalist-led hands-on activities. backyard birds. Terrain: natural surface, some stairs, may join. 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. RRNC 10 – 11 a.m. BNC 1.5 miles 5 – 7 p.m. RRNC Age: grades 1 – 6 Trailside Program Center Register online Cuyahoga County and Hinckley Age: 7 years & over with adult January 20 – February 15 19 • WEDNESDAY Twp. residents: Register by phone 440-473-3370 Register online February 7 – 17 Dabble with Ducks February 1 – 7, 440-526-1012 18 • TUESDAY Join Naturalist Jake Kudrna on Out-of-county residents: hike along the Cuyahoga River in Register online Frosty Forests Hike Hiking for the Young at Heart search of overwintering waterfowl. February 3 – 7 Come wander the woods with This month we’ll head down into 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. CWC us as we enjoy wondering about a floodplain where we can witness Terrain: paved, natural surface, The Frog with a Superpower nature on a frosty morning. We some past beaver activity and a hills, potential for ice, 2.5 miles Wood frogs look like most other will walk over to Lookout Ridge. few seasonal waterfalls. frogs: they have long legs and Warm up with a cup of hot cocoa 9:30 a.m. – noon BeR Young Explorers slimy skin, but they have a survival at the Watershed Stewardship Egbert Picnic Area What lives beneath the ice in strategy that is nothing short of Center fireplace afterwards. Terrain: strenuous hills, winter? Bring your preschoolers to super. Join us to learn about these 10 a.m. – noon WCR 2.5 – 3 miles CanalWay Center to find out. incredible amphibians and do a Monarch Bluff Picnic Area 440-526-1012 We’ll investigate how animals and craft. Terrain: natural surface, stairs, plants survive the cold. 4 – 5 p.m. CWC uneven, 1.5 miles Little Ducklings: Snow 1 – 2 p.m. CWC Age: 8 – 12 years with adult 440-887-1968 Bring your baby to the park Age: 3 – 5 years with adult for songs, stories, exploration and Terrain: paved, 0.5 – 1 mile Nurture with Nature Phenology Friday Hike nature play with new friends. This Register online or by phone Bring your family for a Phenology is the study of month, we’ll experience snow. beginning February 1 monthly program to explore seasonal natural changes. 10 – 10:45 a.m. NCNC 216-206-1000 nature through books, games, Naturalist Foster Brown will lead a Age: 3 years & under with adult hikes and other activities. Tonight monthly hike in search of cyclical Terrain: flat, natural surface, West Creek Night Hike: we’ll learn about the water cycle. natural phenomena on Cleveland 0.25 mile Stories of the Stars 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. BNC Metroparks trails throughout Embark on a leisurely evening Trailside Program Center 2020. This winter hike will be on hike as we look to the night sky to Age: 3 years & over with adult the Glenridge Loop. explore the stories written in the Terrain: mostly flat, 0.5 mile 2 – 4 p.m. ECR stars. Register by phone Highland Picnic Area 6 – 7:30 p.m. WCR beginning February 1 Terrain: hills, exposed roots, wet, Monarch Bluff Picnic Area 440-526-1012 possible snow, ice, 2.5 miles Terrain: paved, natural surfaces, 440-473-3370 All About Squirrels For Adults Only: Birds I Join Naturalist Sarah Winkler 1.5 miles 440-887-1968 If you’ve ever wondered why a Tiger Tracks Overnight as we discover how squirrels live, species migrates, or how birds (Details) what they eat and different types Greater Cleveland Beekeepers learn to sing, this three-part 7 p.m. – 10 a.m. CMZ of squirrels. We will also play a Association: Beginner (February 20 – 22) program is game and do a craft. Beekeeping Course for you. Two evenings will be Look About Lodge 10 – 11 a.m. CWC Class 3 of 4 spent examining birds inside and Fireside Concert Age: 4 – 6 years with adult (Details) out, followed by a bird walk on Thorne Musica, the duo of King & Kovac, will perform music of Urban Explorations: Burke 6:45 – 9 p.m. RRNC Saturday morning. The Genius various European traditions. The Lakefront Airport of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman is duo present a mix of Tangos, You’ve “flown by” Burke at 50 included. Mazurkas, Waltz’s, Jigs & Reels on mph, but Historical Interpreter 7 – 9 p.m. WSC piano, violin, accordion, Spanish Doug Kusak hopes to lift your Age: adults guitar, mandolin, ukulele & banjo appreciation of the country’s only Fee: $22 (includes three parts and and vocals. downtown airport. We’ll soar book) 7 – 8:15 p.m. SCR through Burke’s history and inner- Register online Look About Lodge workings and tour the International by February 12 Fee: $5 Women’s Air & Space Museum. Register online 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Off site December 18 – February 19 Age: adults Cleveland Metroparks is committed to providing quality 440-473-3370 Fee: $8 recreational opportunities to the people of Greater Cleveland. If Register online you need special assistance to attend a program or visit a facility, please beginning January 21 call ahead to the number listed for the event or see the directory pro- 216-206-1000 vided on the back cover. You may also visit clevelandmetroparks.com. 8 Emerald Necklace February 2020 FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE Family Friday Night: The Fight the Frost Festival Fantastic Four (see feature on page 3) Winter Kids Play Day Beavers, bats, coyotes and flying Noon – 4 p.m. CWC Sunday, February 23 • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. squirrels share common traits. North Chagrin Nature Center These mammals have super Scouts BSA Merit Badge: senses and special abilities that Mammal Study Part I We can have fun no matter the weather! Join us for help them survive in our wild Join our certified merit badge indoor and outdoor nature play for the kid in all of us. areas and backyards. A live bat counselors for an interactive Schedule of events: Games, crafts, campfire and flying squirrel are part of the program designed to complete 10 a.m. – noon and hot chocolate program. requirements 1 – 2 & 4 – 5 of this Toddler play for available all day. Free 7 – 8 p.m. NCNC badge. Participants must attend ages 2 –5 years snowshoe try-its for kids both parts (Part II on 2/23). ______(weather dependent, For Adults Only: Birds II Noon – 4 p.m. WSC Noon – 2 p.m. limited equipment (Details) Age: scouts with adult Big kid play for available to borrow; ages 6 – 10 years 7 – 9 p.m. WSC Fee: $20 (includes Parts I and II + ______please call in advance materials) 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to confirm) Register online or by phone Fireside storytime 440-473-3370 22 • SATURDAY by February 14 440-887-1968 For Adults Only: Birds III Winter Weeds Craft Workshop: Upcycled Tote Bag (Details) Black History Month: Phillis Moths, midges and mantids. Use upcycled, colorful, sturdy materials 8 – 10:30 a.m. WSC Wheatley Association What do these insects have to make your own unique shopping Read and Feed For over 100 years, the Phillis to do with winter? They are bag. Bag will be large enough to carry Join Miss Jenny around the Wheatley Association has served easily found in the meadow at least four cereal boxes. fire for storytime before heading the black community of Cleveland. when the leaves are gone. 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. or 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. out to hand-feed the birds. Learn this fascinating story and We will wander through the SCR 9 – 10 a.m. BNC their connection to Rocky River meadow discovering what Look About Lodge Age: families with children 6 Reservation with Historical is hiding beneath the winter Age: adults, 13 years & over with adult years & under Interpreter Jen Graham. This is an weeds. Fee: $10 indoor program. 10:30 a.m. – noon CWC Register online Weekend Trekking 1 – 2 p.m. RRNC Terrain: paved, potential for January 17 – February 19 Join Naturalist Marty Calabrese ice, up to 2 miles 440-473-3370 on a technical deep-woods hike Family Hike through the forests of Royalview. Is your family starting to climb the Scouts BSA Merit Badge: Train Training Talk Check twitter.com/CMPmtb for walls this winter? Join a naturalist Mammal Study Part II Did you ever wonder what those trail condition updates. to get some wiggles out and learn (Details) trains are hauling through Ohio & Erie 9 – 11:30 a.m. MSRR about nature with fun games! Noon – 4 p.m. WSC Canal Reservation? Rail cars come in a Royalview Reserved Picnic Area 3 – 4 p.m. RRNC variety of shapes and sizes. Historical Age: 4 years & over with adult Cabin Fever Hike Interpreter Doug Kusak will take a Terrain: rocky, dirt trails, 5.5 miles Walk with Naturalist Karen 440-734-6660 Terrain: flat, natural surface, 1 mile novice’s approach to help you connect Lakus around the Mt. the train cars with their designed use Woodlands of Bedford: Winter Dog Hike Pleasant Loop Trail. Look for during this indoor presentation. Wonderland Trek Taking your dog to the park signs of wildlife as you enjoy 3 – 4 p.m. CWC Follow a terraced forest trail is a great way to rack up your a brisk winter walk. Dogs are Age: adults, 10 years & over with adult down to Tinker’s Creek on this daily steps. Bring your furry welcome. Register online hike lead by Fred Losi. Several friend out for some exercise and 1 – 2 p.m. RRNC beginning January 21 remote waterfalls (hopefully socialization. We will hike in search Terrain: hills, stairs, natural frozen) and towering shale cliffs of interesting sights and smells. All surface, 2 miles Stories with the Stars: Winter are welcome. Constellations will be visited. Please bring a Snake School light lunch and be prepared for 3 – 4:30 p.m. NCNC Come for the stories, stay for the stars. Terrain: natural surface, hills, (Details) You’ll get to hear folk tales and myths potentially difficult mid-winter 2 – 3 p.m. RRNC conditions. 3 – 3.5 miles about our constellations, and then 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. BeR we’ll take a short stroll outside to Tiger Track Overnight Sunday Crafternoon: Egbert Picnic Area stargaze. (Details) Pinecone Masterpieces Terrain: natural surface, hills, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. BNC 7 p.m. – 10 a.m. CMZ Let the beauty of nature 4 miles Trailside Program Center inspire the artist in you in Terrain: flat, 0.25 mile 216-206-1000 this quarterly series. This 23 • SUNDAY month, we’ll lead you in Fauna Folklore creating a beautiful flower- 25 • TUESDAY Many of Ohio’s animals are tied Bird Banding inspired wall-hanging made to legends and stories handed Better than binoculars, see by painting pinecones found Forbes Forest down from one generation to intricate details of birds as we in our backyards. The transition from dairy farm to forest the next. Listen to some of these capture and band birds from the 2 – 4 p.m. BNC is a slow one. Let’s examine the young tales as you sit in the warm feeders. Learn about bird banding, Trailside Program Center forest of Forbes Woods and learn how comfort of the nature center. an essential tool for learning about Age: adults it will mature into the forests of the 11 a.m. – noon RRNC our feathered friends. Program will Fee: $10 surrounding hillsides. be canceled during rain. Register online 10 – 11 a.m. BeR Drop in any time between February 1 – 19 Forbes Woods parking lot 9:30 a.m. – noon RRNC Terrain: paved, potential for ice, 0.5 mile 216-206-1000 clevelandmetroparks.com 9 Programs for Young Children FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE 26 • WEDNESDAY 28 • FRIDAY Backyard Birds Sleeping Giants A naturalist, field guides, and The trees of the Sylvan Loop are Urban Explorations: Burke The River That Changed binoculars will be provided to assist dormant, but their branches and Lakefront Airport a Nation you in learning some of our common hollows provide shelter for wild (Details) The Cuyahoga River played birds in winter. We’ll enjoy learning turkeys and barred owls. Learn about 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Off site a major role in America’s about our feathered friends that visit how old-growth forests protect environmental movement. Let’s our feeders from the warmth of our winter wildlife on this stroll through Discovery Days: take a deeper look into the revival bird viewing room. A.B. Williams Memorial Woods. The Mitten of the river and discuss future 10 – 11 a.m. CWC 2 – 3:15 p.m. NCR We’ll discover ways animals stay projects to further its restoration. A.B. Williams Memorial Woods warm in winter when mittens Meet at the Cleveland Script Sign From Sun to Syrup Trailhead can’t be found. We will share – Tremont. Maple sugaring transforms tree sap Terrain: natural surface, may be icy, discoveries, stories, a craft and 2 – 3 p.m. LR into edible syrup. Join Naturalist 2.5 miles spend time outdoors. Parking lot at the corner of Marty Calabrese for an introductory 440-473-3370 11 a.m. – noon CWC Abbey Ave. and W. 14th St. presentation revealing the whole Age: 3 – 6 years with adult or Terrain: paved, hills, up to 2 miles process. Enjoy photos from the Winter Woodland Wandering in-home daycare provider 216-206-1000 Cleveland Metroparks sugar bush Discover how our woodlands and its Register online or and discover procedural subtleties creatures adapt to winter as we make by phone Tiger Tracks Overnight resulting in the finest maple syrup. our way from the Scenic Overlook 216-341-1707 (Details) 10 – 11 a.m. RRNC to the beautiful Bridal Veil Falls and 7 p.m. – 10 a.m. CMZ back. Wednesday Walk Black History Month: The Hero, 3 – 5 p.m. BeR Join a naturalist for a dusk walk Look About Lodge Fireside Garrett Morgan Tinker’s Creek Gorge Scenic Overlook along the canal. We’ll look for Concert Learn the tragic story of the 1916 Terrain: paved, natural surfaces, hilly, evidence of some of our winter You won’t want to miss The tunnel explosion under Lake Erie 2 miles wildlife as we take this brisk walk Swamp Rattlers. Paul Pira and and the triumphant success of 440-887-1968 around the Lower 40 Loop Trail. his band will be bringing their Garrett Morgan, an African American 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. CWC hard-hitting acoustic blues rock inventor, who was called upon to Cub Scout Overnight Terrain: paved trail, 1 mile and country blues act to Look help save lives. This is an indoor Cub Scouts will explore the outdoors, About Lodge for our final concert program. making observations of wildlife Greater Cleveland Beekeepers of the winter. 1 – 2 p.m. RRNC and using tools to guide their way. Association: Beginner 7 – 8:15 p.m. SCR Activities will address some of the Beekeeping Course Look About Lodge Bedazzled Bugs requirements for the Wolf and Bear Class 4 of 4 Fee: $5 Let’s create some jewelry framed Adventures. (Details) Register online around our creek-dwelling critters. 7 p.m. – 10 a.m. CMZ 6:45 – 9 p.m. RRNC December 18 – February 26 Discover the role of insects in fashion Age: 6 years & over with adult 440-473-3370 and art in this hands-on program. Fee: $42 27 • THURSDAY 1 – 2:30 p.m. WSC Register online Age: 8 years & over with adult Outdoor Adventures for 29 • SATURDAY Homeschoolers:­ Nature Writing LOOK AHEAD TO MARCH Frozen Waterfalls Hike Join Writers Jenny Clark and Join a fast paced hike that will Linda Tuthill as they prompt travel through the steep and us to express our creative side Outdoor Experiences Summer Camp Registration wild ravines surrounding Tinker’s through natural history. Take a Online Registration • Tuesday, March 3 Creek. We’ll visit several frozen short, naturalist-led hike, explore Mark your calendar! Summer Camp Registration for Cuyahoga County waterfalls on our excursion. themed writing prompts, and and Hinckley Township residents begins March 3. Summer camp 10 a.m. – noon or 1:30 – 3:30 enjoy lunch in the historic setting dates, descriptions and fees are available to view on our website. p.m. BeR of Look About Lodge. Please contact your nearest nature center if you have any questions Egbert Picnic Area 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. SCR Age: grades 3 – 8 Look About Lodge regarding summer camps or if you are in need of a scholarship. Terrain: strenuous hills, 2.5 – Age: 16 years & over 3 miles Fee: $25 Up With Upcycling Fair Register online Terrain: level, 0.5 mile Saturday, March 14 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. beginning February 1 Register online North Chagrin Nature Center 440-526-1012 January 20 – February 22 North Chagrin Nature Center will be holding their 4th year New Moon Hike 440-473-3370 of celebrating upcycling, the art of repurposing throwaways. Experience the natural world Birds Along the Creek Professional artisans will be exhibiting and selling their useful and while the moon is hidden. Listen Ohio’s winter months are the artful creations. Come make your own free take away upcycling crafts. and look for coyotes, owls and perfect time to learn resident bird planets with Naturalist Selby species. Join us along Euclid Creek World Water Day Celebration Majewski Bean. in search of our wonderful winter 7 – 8 p.m. AR Saturday, March 21 • Noon – 4 p.m. residents. Watershed Stewardship Center Meet in the parking lot 9:30 – 11 a.m. ECR Terrain: paved, moderate hills, Highland Picnic Area This annual family-friendly fest will explore how clean water is 2 miles Terrain: natural surface, may be impacted by climate change worldwide. Try traditional crafts, listen 440-473-3370 icy, up to 2 miles to folk music and enjoy ethnic food tastings. Free wagon rides and 440-473-3370 parking shuttle provided. In partnership with Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District and West Creek Conservancy. 10 Emerald Necklace February 2020 Cleveland Metroparks Outdoor Recreation offers a series of year-round programs from Outdoor introductory experiences and skills classes to advanced trips and certification courses. These class levels allow novices interested in an activity to gain the skills and knowledge to safely and Recreation confidently participate in these activities on their own while still challenging the avid recreationist. ADAPTIVE DAY DATES TIME PARK AGES FEE** Snowshoe/Hike & Camp Cooking Sat Feb 1 4 – 6 p.m. NCR 14+* $15.00 Adaptive Sat Feb 22 4 – 6 p.m. NCR 14+* $15.00 Learn how to kayak or discover the art of camp cooking during Kayaking 1: Basic Strokes Sun Feb 23 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Off site 14+* $45.00 these programs specifically designed for people with BACKPACKING disabilities. Winter Backpacking Pre-Trip Tue Feb 18 6 – 8 p.m. GPC 14+* $65.00 Backpacking (Mandatory pre-trip meeting) Learn the art of backpacking under the guidance of Trip: Feb 22, 11 a.m. – Feb 23, 11 a.m. experienced backpackers through a series of classroom programs Land Navigation 1 Sat Mar 7 9 a.m. – noon NCR 14+* $15.00 to multi-day trips where education and helping you gain the skills to CYCLING backpack on your own is the goal. Mountain Biking Skills Clinic Wed Feb 5 6 – 9 p.m. Off site Adult $20.00 Cycling at Ray’s MTB Wed Feb 12 6 – 9 p.m. Off site Adult $20.00 Enhance your mountain biking Wed Feb 19 6 – 9 p.m. Off site Adult $20.00 skills this winter indoors at Ray’s Wed Feb 26 6 – 9 p.m. Off site Adult $20.00 Mountain Bike Park under the guidance of a certified mountain CLIMBING bike instructor. Bring your own bike or rent one from Ray’s. Ice Climbing Adventure Pre-Trip Wed Feb 5 5 – 7:15 p.m. Off site 16+* $130.00 Climbing (Must attend one of the pre-trip meetings) or 7 – 9 p.m. Learn how to ice climb as we Trip: February 8, 6 a.m. – 8 p.m. travel to Fenton, Michigan to climb a 45’ and 72’ ice tower created by CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING the Peabody Ice Climbing Club. Cross-Country Skiing 1: Strides Thu Feb 6 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. BeR 10+* $25.00 Cross-Country Skiing (3 hr. sessions) Thu Feb 13 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. BeR 10+* $25.00 Learn the basics of cross-country Sun Feb 23 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. BeR 10+* $25.00 skiing from try-it sessions to introductory classes focusing on SNOWSHOEING basic terminology, strides, turning, Try-It: Snowshoeing Sat Feb 1 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. NCR 10+* $15.00 and going up and down small hills. (2 hr. sessions) Sat Feb 22 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. NCR 10+* $15.00 Snowshoeing KAYAKING Learn basic snowshoeing Kayaking 1: Basic Strokes Sun Feb 2 9 a.m. – noon Off site 14+* $45.00 terminology, turning, going up and down small hills, how to easily go Sun Feb 23 9 a.m. – noon Off site 14+* $45.00 over obstacles, and why going Kayak 2: Rescues Wed Feb 26 6 – 9 p.m. Off site 14+* $45.00 backwards usually isn’t a good idea. RACES/TOURS/EVENTS Kayaking Skills & Thrills Series Wed Feb 5 6 – 8 p.m. LR All ages* $5.00 Learn efficient strokes and rescue with light appetizers Wed Feb 19 6 – 8 p.m. LR All ages* $5.00 techniques that will prepare you Wed Mar 4 6 – 8 p.m. LR All ages* $5.00 for paddling on longer trips or tours. Wed Mar 18 6 – 8 p.m. LR All ages* $5.00 Skills & Thrills Series Life Outdoors Film Fest Fri Mar 20 7:30 – 9 p.m. RRNC All ages* $10.00 Hear inspiring outdoor adventures Adventure University & Gear Swap Sat Mar 21 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Off site All ages* Free as well as learn new skills you can apply to your next adventure CERTIFICATIONS during this winter series. Light appetizers provided. Ohio Boating Education Course Sat Mar 7 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. WSC 13+* $15 –$25 Wilderness First Aid Wilderness First Aid Sat – Sun Apr 4 – 5 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. BrR 16+* $215.00 Become a SOLO certified WFA during this hands-on training * Must have registered and participating Adventure University & Gear Swap course that will help you prepare adult accompanying youth. for the unexpected in the Saturday, March 21 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. • Baldwin Wallace University backcountry. ** Early bird fee shown. Fee includes all Listen to exhibitors, local adventures, and certified professionals share inspiring stories, equipment needed to participate. learn a new skill, try kayaking, or buy/sell gear for your next trip during the gear swap. Site abbreviations listed on page 2 Partnership between Cleveland Metroparks and Baldwin Wallace University. clevelandmetroparks.com 11 4101 Fulton Parkway PRSRT STD Cleveland, Ohio 44144-1923 U.S. POSTAGE PAID DATED MATERIAL DO NOT DELAY Cleveland, Ohio Permit No. 2911

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Emerald Necklace® Directory Published monthly by: Board of Park Commissioners Cleveland Metroparks Volunteer Services Cleveland Metroparks Bruce G. Rinker Dan T. Moore Administration Offices 440-331-8237 President Vice President clevelandmetroparks.com/ 216-635-3200 216-635-3200/24-hour info Debra K. Berry Brian M. Zimmerman 4101 Fulton Parkway volunteer clevelandmetroparks.com Vice President Chief Executive Officer Cleveland, OH 44144 clevelandmetroparks.com Rental Facilities 216-635-3304 Cleveland Metroparks Police Accidents or Emergencies Nature Centers: 440-333-4911 Brecksville Nature Center Cleveland Metroparks Zoo & 9000 Chippewa Creek Drive The RainForest Brecksville, OH 44141 216-661-6500/24-hour info Brecksville Reservation 3900 Wildlife Way 440-526-1012 Cleveland, OH 44109 futureforwildlife.org CanalWay Center 4524 E. 49th Street Cleveland Metroparks Golf Cuyahoga Heights, OH 44125 Golf Services/440-232-7247 Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation (general course info & inquiries) 216-206-1000 clevelandmetroparks.com/golf North Chagrin Nature Center The Chalet Recreation Area 401 Buttermilk Falls Parkway 16200 Valley Parkway Mayfield Village, OH 44094 Strongsville, OH 44136 North Chagrin Reservation Mill Stream Run Reservation 440-473-3370 440-572-9990 Rocky River Nature Center Lakefront Reservation 24000 Valley Parkway Administration Building North Olmsted, OH 44070 8701 Lakeshore Blvd. Rocky River Reservation Cleveland, OH 44108 440-734-6660 216-881-8141 Watershed Stewardship Center Outdoor Recreation 2277 W. Ridgewood Drive 216-341-1704 Parma, OH 44134 Cleveland Metroparks app available for download for iPhone® and Android®. clevelandmetroparks.com/or West Creek Reservation iPhone®and iPad® are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. 440-887-1968 Android® is a trademark of Google LLC Outdoor Experiences 216-881-8141 Cleveland Metroparks does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age or disability in employment, services or access to programs or activities. Cover photo: Amur Tiger at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Emerald Necklace is also available online at clevelandmetroparks.com Additional photos courtesy of Cleveland Metroparks photo archive, unless © Registered trademarks of Cleveland Metroparks. otherwise noted.