The Beaver Brook Association is a non-profit nature center a

conservation area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...

Hollis Hollis may refer to: *Hollis (singer) *Hollis (name) Places * Hollis, Alaska * Hollis, Kansas * Hollis, Maine * Hollis, Missouri * Hollis, New Hampshire * Hollis, Oklahoma * Hollis, Queens, neighborhood in New York **Hollis (LIRR station), its Lon ...

Brookline Brookline may refer to: Places in the United States * Brookline, Massachusetts, a town near Boston * Brookline, Missouri * Brookline, New Hampshire * Brookline (Pittsburgh), a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Brookline, Vermont See ...

, and

Milford, New Hampshire Milford is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States, on the Souhegan River. The population was 16,131 at the 2020 census, up from 15,115 at the 2010 census.United States Census BureauU.S. Census website 2010 Census figures. Re ...

,United States.It takes its name from Beaver Brook,a tributary of the

Nissitissit River The Nissitissit River is a river in southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts in the United States. It is a tributary of the Nashua River, itself a tributary of the Merrimack River, which flows to the Gulf of Maine. This river is part of ...

and

Nashua River The Nashua River, long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 3, 2011 is a tributary of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the United States. It i ...

Geography

Its more than 4000 acres of land contains about of trails going through an area located between

Northern hardwood forest The northern hardwood forest is a general type of North American forest ecosystem found over much of southeastern and south-central Canada, Ontario, and Quebec, extending south into the United States in northern New England, New York, and Pennsyl ...

s and southern

Northeastern coastal forests The Northeastern coastal forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of the northeast and middle Atlantic region of the United States. The ecoregion covers an area of 34,630 sq miles (89,691 km2) encompassing the Piedmont a ...

. It contains a large amount of wetland areas which run along the brook.

History

The Beaver Brook Association was founded in 1964 on a lot by Hollis P. Nichols and Jeffrey P. Smith.

Activities

The mission of Beaver Brook Association is "to promote an understanding of the interrelationships in the natural world and to demonstrate natural resource stewardship". The association runs activities year round, including nature and fitness hikes, herb and gardening classes, survival skills, orienteering, snowshoeing, mindfulness in nature, forest ecology classes and more. They offer week long sessions of summer nature camps. In addition, environmental education programs are offered at schools, libraries, clubs and other public forums. Over 10,000 people attend these programs each year. The association often sponsors educational events on its campus as well as at nearby museums, schools and libraries. It has pollinator plots, a compost education court,a group campsite with cabins and fire circles, multiple historic buildings for classrooms and meeting spaces plus 14 theme gardens maintained by volunteers. Nearly 200 volunteers a year assist Beaver Brook with its mission. The nature center is open from sunrise to sunset everyday of the year.

References

External links

Official website
{{Coord, 42, 43, 21, N, 71, 36, 23, W, type:forest, display=title Protected areas of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Nature reserves in New Hampshire Nature centers in New Hampshire Hollis, New Hampshire Brookline, New Hampshire Milford, New Hampshire