High Plains Environmental Center’s 2023 Native Plant Sale starts March 31st and will run through September. New varieties of prairie and Rocky Mountain native plants will be added throughout the season as they become available in the HPEC nursery. Native plants help to conserve water and support native wildlife, especially pollinators! Get a sneak peek […]
Interpretive Guides: Kristin Oles (Restoration Ecologist & Project Manager), Jack Landen (Lead Field Technician), OR JT Love (Field Technician) Join us on the Second Saturday of each month, January-December from 9am – 10:30am, for a fun and casual interpretive walk between Hout Reservoir and Equalizer Lake, guided by our Restoration Ecology staff & Certified Interpretive Trail Guides. […]
Sheila Webber will be guiding a bird walks at Chapungu Sculpture Park on Sunday, June 24. This walk combines two of our favorite things- Art & Birds! Walking will be at a slow pace on approximately 2 miles of level walking paths. Consider bringing binoculars and a field guide to enhance your birding experience. The […]
Join us on on the FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH from 9:00am-11am for Bird Banding with Scott Rashid (Director of the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute) followed by a casual bird walk at Equalizer Lake with Sheila Webber of the Fort Collins Audubon Society. Participants meet at the High Plains Environmental Center, 2698 Bluestem […]
Interpretive Guides: Kristin Oles (Restoration Ecologist & Project Manager), Jack Landen (Lead Field Technician), OR JT Love (Field Technician) Join us on the Second Saturday of each month, January-December from 9am – 10:30am, for a fun and casual interpretive walk between Hout Reservoir and Equalizer Lake, guided by our Restoration Ecology staff & Certified Interpretive Trail Guides. […]
Sheila Webber will be guiding a bird walks at Chapungu Sculpture Park on Saturday, July 22. This walk combines two of our favorite things- Art & Birds! Walking will be at a slow pace on approximately 2 miles of level walking paths. Consider bringing binoculars and a field guide to enhance your birding experience. The […]
Starting March 1st, annual garden boxes are available to members of High Plains Environmental Center and Centerra community residents. Be sure to email info@suburbitat.org on March 1st, 2021 after 9 am to sign up if you would like to reserve a community garden box. Box assignments and community garden details will be sent out by March 15th. […]
Now through January 1, 2020 Winter Wonderlights returns for the 2020 holiday season from November 14 through January 1 at the Chapungu Sculpture Park at Centerra in Loveland, just east of Macy’s at The Promenade Shops retail center at U.S. Hwy. 34 and I-25. Each night, visitors can walk through the beautiful park and enjoy […]
Online Lecture Series: Botany, Part 2 Saturday, December 12, 2020, 9:00am-10:00am MT Instructor: Jim Tolstrup, HPEC Executive Director This course is designed to help beginners identify common woody native plants in the field. Participants will learn basic botanical terms that distinguish plant parts, and how to “key out” plants, identifying families based on broad commonalities […]
Online Lecture Series: Botany, Part 1 Saturday, November 14, 2020, 9:00am-10:00am MT Instructor: Jim Tolstrup, HPEC Executive Director This course is designed to help beginners identify common herbaceous native plants in the field. Participants will learn basic botanical terms that distinguish plant parts, and how to “key out” plants, identifying families based on broad commonalities […]
Whether you’re a seasoned birder or an amateur, join Sheila Webber for a bird walk around Equalizer on the First Saturday of each month 8am-10am from February-November in 2020. Walking will be at a slow pace on approximately 2 miles of level walking paths. Consider bringing binoculars and a field guide to enhance your birding […]
This FREE annual spooktacular event is going Open Air Style in 2020! Featuring a family-friendly drive-in with Halloween favorites at the Centerra Marketplace (in the parking lot east of Jimmy John’s and south of Marshall’s). Don’t delay and reserve your tickets when they go on sale this week, limited space available. Each vehicle will receive […]