Annual Appeal
 We are writing today to ask for your support of the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s 2018 Annual Fund.
The Annual Fund is a critical piece of our operating budget. For the Center to continue to provide the full complement of programs throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we rely on your assistance and generosity.
Examples of what your donation to the Lloyd Center Annual fund will do:
- Provide butterfly nets for a small group of students ($50);
- Feed Koko our screech owl, used in education programs, for one month ($100);
- Provide a summer program scholarship for a child ($250);
- Provide four classrooms with an interactive field study ($1,000);
- Fund a research intern for the summer ($2,500);
- Provide a year-long education program for an entire class ($10,000).
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Second Lloyd Center building project getting underway
 By Douglas McCulloch, Dartmouth Week
The iconic treehouse visitor center at the Lloyd Center for the Environment — originally built as a private home — is set to receive a makeover as part of the center’s $1.5 million expansion project.
The nonprofit environmental education center has experienced pronounced growth in programming and visitors, especially in the past five years. That necessitated more space for learning, explained Executive Director Rachel Stronach.
The center partners with schools across the state, and welcomes between 12,000 and 15,000 students each year to its Potomska Road location (and in classrooms) for educational hikes, science expeditions, and environmental programming. Combined with an additional 20,000 visitors, staff have struggled with space constraints within the main building, constructed in 1975.
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Erosion
 by Katie Houseman, Lloyd Center Educator/Naturalist
Did you know that the Lloyd Center is integrated into the Dartmouth public school curriculum?
In 2017, the Lloyd Center expanded from district-wide in third and fifth grades to district-wide in grades two through five in Dartmouth schools! The Lloyd Center staff hosts on-property field trips and visits students in their classrooms, aligning all programs to the Massachusetts Science and Technology/ Engineering Frameworks. Currently, we are beginning our in-school lesson with Dartmouth fourth-graders, educating students about erosion. The Erosion and Weathering Program consists of an introduction to these terms followed by hands-on activities through which students explore how these forces affect beaches, mountains and create landmarks.
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Upcoming events
Click HERE for more details and to pre-register. Pre-registration is required for most events.
Nature Discoveries: Saturday, November 10, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Turkey Trot: Saturday, November 17, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
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Lloyd Center has a new online Wish List
Check out our Wish List on Amazon.com. Help if you can!
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Hardscrabble Nature Preserve Visitor Hours
The Lloyd Center's Visitor Center is open from 10:00am to 4:00pm, Tuesday through Saturday and on Sundays, June - September, free of charge.
Trails are open from dawn to dusk, seven days a week.
Lloyd Center for the Environment
430 Potomska Road in Dartmouth MA 02748
508-990-0505 www.lloydcenter.org
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