A film on monarch butterflies will be shown on March 18. Photo: Thomas Bresson/Wikimedia Commons
An illustrated naturalists’ program and a film about butterflies will be presented in March by the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust.
On Sunday, March 2 from 2-3 p.m. in Bemis Hall, Mary Holland, naturalist and author, will give an illustrated program, “Naturally Curious—Wood Frog to Black Bear: Exciting Worlds of the Northeast” that will take viewers through the most memorable natural history events occurring in each month of the year. Her books will also be for sale. On display will be collected items from her forays into New England habitats such as skulls, scat, feathers, and antlers. Free admission; donations welcome. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lincoln Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies, the last movie in the LLCT’s environmental film series, will be shown on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the LLCT office (above the post office at the mall) . Orange and black wings fill the sky as PBS’s NOVA charts one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To capture a butterfly’s point of view, NOVA’s filmmakers used a helicopter, ultralight and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the transcontinental route. This wondrous annual migration, which scientists are just beginning to fathom, is an endangered phenomenon that could dwindle to insignificance if the giant firs that the butterflies cling to during the winter disappear.