Seasonal Nature Walks

Bring Mike to your site to lead a nature walk that interprets your site and its plants, animals, habitats, and more, sharing his lifetime as a naturalist with your members and friends. In any season and on any site, Mike engages your audience in a better understanding of the diversity of life and our connections to it while sharing cutting-edge information on front-burner issues like climate change. Throughout the walk, Mike weaves stories of hope and sustainability, leaving participants empowered to make a difference.

Walking Climate Change

At any natural area you’d like, Mike leads a group along an interactive nature walk, interpreting the plants and animals you meet through the lens of climate change. What's the evidence for climate change locally? What are the trends for Philly’s temperature and rainfall? How will it impact local ecosystems? And what are viable solutions to the climate crisis? It’s a nature walk like none you've ever had before!.

From Ants to Eagles: Walking Biological Diversity

The preservation of our planet’s stunning biological diversity is one of the key issues of the 21st century. On an interactive walk through a natural area, Mike not only interprets the life histories of the plants and animals you meet, but presents cutting-edge and surprising information on the Earth’s diversity-- and the threats and solutions therein. You’ll even learn the history behind our understanding of extinction, and leave inspired to protect our biological wealth.

Secrets of the Solstice: A Winter’s Walk

In December, natural symbols celebrating the holidays abound: evergreens, hollies, mistletoe, even branching menorahs and the first fruits of Kwanzaa. What exactly happens at the solstice? And what is the strange and wonderful history of these– and other– symbols? On a  guided walk through a winter forest, Mike Weilbacher shares the science, legends, and traditions of the season from around the world and across time. At long last, you’ll understand why we kiss under the mistletoe.