Watershed Wonders is a student-centered exhibition exploring how water shapes our landscapes, ecosystems, and communities. The exhibition is a collaboration between Woodstock Land Conservancy, Woodstock Elementary School, Woodstock Day School, Middle Way School, and Woodstock Library. It features work from five distinct projects across eight classrooms at three local elementary schools.

Each project invited students to investigate watersheds through art, ecology, and place-based learning, and was supported by an in-class visit from a local expert in watershed health. The projects encourage students (and exhibition visitors)  to consider their roles as watershed protectors and to better understand how local ecology is connected by water.

Vernal Fling is the unofficial kickoff for spring celebrations in Woodstock, an event where we celebrate the season while recognizing leaders in environmental work with the William R. Ginsberg Stewardship Award. This year we will be inaugurating a new award, the Emerging Leader Award. We will be honoring the Longyear family — Kathy, Matt and Heather — as our Ginsberg Award winners and Zoe Keller as our Emerging Leader winner.

Attendees of all ages will enjoy delicious bites, intriguing drinks and opportunities to take home lovely gifts through both a raffle and a silent auction while supporting our conservation efforts.

This year’s featured art is “Planting Utopia (Tree of Life)” by Julia Whitney Barnes. It will be available to add to your home at the Vernal Fling silent auction.

Purchase tickets here.

Join WLC, the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program, Jennifer Zackin of “Mapping the Sawkill,” and others for an afternoon of community dialogue and interactive mapping at the Woodstock Library. This free series is part of the Ashokan Watershed Conference ‘Summit to Stream: Building a Resilient Watershed Together’. Together participants will explore what has been learned from past experiences with flooding in this region and examine how landowners and stewards can protect our watershed through collective action.