Gilman Mounds Walk - Women in Conservation Film and Panel at Lussier Center

Talk a group walk before sunset to the Gilman Mounds and bring a thermos. Afterwards, watch a short award-winning documentary and live panel discussion with women conservationists, who save bats from White Nose disease. Lussier Heritage Center is our host. Tickets are FREE with suggested donation of $5 or $10. The walk, starting at 4:45PM, will proceed if temperatures are above 30 degrees, no snow or rain, and the paved trail is in good condition. (Sunset is at 6:56PM- we will have light!) The film and panel discussion, starting at 6PM will go on regardless of the weather. The distance is 0.5 miles from the Lussier Center, where you should park, to the Gilman Indian Mounds, so 1 mile round trip. The Lussier center will have light refreshments.

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The event features "The Invisible Mammal", a feature-length documentary film about bats, infectious disease, and women in science. In this intensely cinematic film, bats are rendered poetically visible: spectacularly streaming out of caves or bridges, or cradled in a gloved hand, wings extended. This film follows a team of women scientists trying to save bats from the deadly White-nose Syndrome, which is putting North American bats at threat of extinction. Following the film, engage with a diverse panel of women working in the conservation field. They will explore career challenges, ways to get more women into environmental sciences and conservation, and an opportunity to connect with women in the field.

The Gilman Mounds is a beautiful area. The Indian mounds date from 12,000 years ago. It is a small climb up to the mounds, but it is very gradual, and can introduce you to one of the loveliest areas for bike riding, when the blooms start to appear,

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