Washington Crossing State Park’s Nature Center is set to host five events in February, including a maple sugaring demonstration.
A screening of a nature video called Animals of the Abyss is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. Feb. 8. The video is about invertebrates inhabit the deepest recesses of the ocean. Some are quite large, others tiny yet, they build some of the largest living structures on the planet.
A screening of a nature video called The Insects is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. Feb. 15.
A presentation titled The Paleo and Archaic Indians of New Jersey is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Feb. 16.
Jim Wade, former archivist and researcher with the N.J. State Museum, is set to discuss the last ice age, when the earliest Native American peoples entered what is now New Jersey. Discover how these Paleo-Indians lived and survived in an arctic landscape filled with prehistoric fur-covered animals, like the woolly mammoth, great elk, and musk oxen.
The program includes a slide presentation and Native American artifacts will be on display.
A screening of a nature video called Reptiles and Amphibians is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. Feb. 22. The video is about reptiles around the wold and how they employ a variety of interesting techniques to secure food, evade predators and reproduce.
Maple sugaring is scheduled for 1:30 to 3 p.m. Feb. 23. This event is a participatory demonstration in the procedures of home maple sugar production. Advanced registration required.
Washington Crossing State Park is located 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville.
More information is online at state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/washcros.
