Science in Conversation Join the Natural History Institute for a webinar series that asks scientists to uncover the natural history in their science. Program Director Jessie Rack engages scientists across a spectrum of nature-based fields to find out why natural history matters, and why it still deserves a place in scientific thought. Register now for […]
NHI Art Gallery Presents The Art of Natural History Highlights from the Josephine Michell Arader Collection Historically, the practice of natural history is what birthed the natural sciences. Art was a means to communicate observations of nature in all its beauty, though red in tooth and claw. In this exhibition, the Natural History Institute […]
Join Liz Makings, collections manager of the Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium, for a field workshop focused on the annual plants of the Sonoran Desert. Liz will explain the details of some important desert flowers with the help of a hand lens (strongly recommended) and guide participants in the basics of recognizable field characters […]
City of Prescott Recreation Services presents Trekabout Hiking Club Treks around the Prescott area are held year-round, every Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 7:00 a.m. during the summer and 8:00 a.m. during winter, and vary in length and difficulty. Hikes are led by staff and volunteers from the Prescott Recreation Services Department, Yavapai County Community […]
Nature Niños is a free community program for families with children ages 0-8 in the Greater Prescott Area. Park Rangers and community partners (including NHI!) will lead child-centered play events at a different family friendly trail each month. At every Nature Niños event there will be take-home freebies, creative nature activities, storytime, a raffle, and […]
Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves A reciprocal healing series from the Natural History Institute There is a growing awareness of the positive mental, physical, and physiological benefits that humans can reap from time spent in nature. Join the Natural History Institute in this new series where we ask: how can we heal ourselves in nature? […]
Gratitude is a Way of Life: A webinar with Kathleen Dean Moore We are only now beginning to understand how fully we depend on the Earth’s freely given gifts of life, health, emotional well-being, meaning, and so much more – everything, endlessly, on and on. Earth’s gifts call us fundamentally to gratitude, a glad appreciation […]
We’re excited to head to a hotspot of marine and desert biodiversity. The Gulf of California, México: Wild Islands, Rich Desert will include boat trips to witness seabirds, dolphins, whales, sea turtles, and more, as well as exploration of one of the world’s most diverse deserts - the Central Gulf Coast Subdivision of the Sonoran Desert - […]
Science in Conversation Webinar Series Presents Saving Nature in the Heat Age: A Natural History of Climate Change Climate change is already causing living things to move, adapt, or die. Unfortunately, we aren’t very good at knowing which species are most at risk. We lack natural history information – basic biology such as movement patterns […]