The outing to Saratoga Spa State Park on February 20th begins at 1:30PM at the park. We spoke with a park administrator to confirm there are indeed bathrooms, the skating pond is not open yet this year, but the warming hut is open. They rent snowshoes and recommend “spikes” over a boot for hiking. The loop down by the geysers is open and there is a ring road to hike on. The drive afterward to the ancient fossils (in Lester Park) is about 10 minutes. Contact Paula Shaw (email: georgeandpaula@icloud.com or phone: 518 847 2927) for more info or visit the Green Sanctuary table after the service. Alternate date: 2/26.

The next Union College in person environmental lecture in the Nott Memorial will be at 5:00PM on February 15th. The speaker is Professor Sonali McDermid from NYU. The topic will be adapting crops to climate change while reducing GHG’s. (Google: “2023 Union College Winter Seminar Series” for more info. The next ECOS speaker series lecture is at 7PM on the third Thursday of February and will feature Jeff Leon of Strawberry Fields Nature Preserve on “Road to Net Zero”. This virtual lecture may be accessed from: ecosny.org (the ECOS website). For more info go to the same web site or to the Green Sanctuary table on Sunday.