Evening meetings of the Nicola Naturalist Society are held once a month from September through May. We generally meet at 7PM on the third Thursday of the month in the Lecture Theatre of NVIT (Nicola Valley Institute of Technology) on Belshaw Road, Merritt. Admission is free to members. We have awesome raffles.
Field Outings are usually held in spring, summer and fall and are listed below. Members will receive e-mail notices too. Field trips are restricted to members (but visitors can sign up as a member for the day for a nominal fee).
NNS members are eligible to attend BC Nature camps, meetings and other events. Click this link to get more details: BC Nature.
Upcoming events
Click on any of the links below to see details of upcoming Nicola Naturalist Society events:
Information on past events:
Nicola Naturalist Society hosted a Spring BC Nature Camp – 29 May – 1 June 2014. For a report on this camp and many photos click here: Spring Camp
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall events 2024
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Spring Events 2024
- Snow Bunting Shiver – Feb 2024
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall and Winter events 2023-24
- Coutlee Bioblitz – 17 May 2023
- Sandhill Crane surveys 2023
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count 2022
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall, Winter & Spring events 2022-23
- Sandhill Crane outing – 17 April 2022
- Snow Bunting Shiver Outing – February 2022
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Winter & Spring Events 2022
- Christmas Bird Count for Kids – Merritt, January 2022
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count 2021
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall & Winter Events 2021-22
- Nicola Naturalist Society – April 2021 “Nature News”
- Sandhill Crane outings – April 2021
- Sandhill Crane monitoring in the Douglas Lake Plateau
- Nicola Naturalist Society – January 2021 “Nature News”
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count 2020
- Nicola Naturalist Halloween Outing – Oct 2020
- Nicola Naturalist Society – October 2020 “Nature News”
- Kane Valley – spring outing 20 June 2020
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Winter events 2019/2020
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall events 2019
- Nicola Naturalist Society – members’ camp 2019
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Spring & Summer events 2019
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Winter & Spring events 2019
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count – 16th December 2018
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall Events 2018
- Nicola Naturalists’ first club camp – July 2018
- Spring and Summer 2018 – photos from our outings
- Nicola Naturalist Society – spring & summer events 2018
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count – December 2017
- Nicola Naturalist Society – winter events 2017-2018
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall Events 2017
- Nicola Naturalist Society outing to Kane Valley – 17 June 2017
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Summer Events 2017
- Nicola Naturalists Butterfly Outing – 3 June 2017
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Spring events 2017
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count – December 2016
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Winter & Spring Events 2017
- Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall Events 2016
- Outing with Vermilion Forks Naturalists – 5 June 2016
- Winter/Spring Programs – January to May 2016
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count – Sunday 20th December
- Nicola Naturalist Society fall programs – 2015
- Spring programs – April-June 2015
- Winter evening programs – January-March 2015
- Results – Merritt Christmas Bird Count, 14 December 2014
- Winter Bird Identification Workshop – Saturday 6th Dec 2014
- “Fur and forests: habitat management in BC interior forests for wildlife and biodiversity” – Dr. Tom Sullivan. Thursday Nov 20th, 7PM at NVIT Theatre
- “The South Okanagan – Similkameen National Park proposal” with Doreen Olson. Thursday Oct 16, 2014. 7PM, NVIT Theatre
- Spring Camp 2014 – Nicola Naturalists host BC Nature visitors
- Spring outing to the Douglas Lake Plateau IBA – 21 April 2014
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count – 15 December 2013
- Nicola Naturalist Evening Presentations Jan-Apr 2014
- Winter bird identification workshop – Saturday 7th December 2013, 1 PM at NVIT
- “Antarctica – the icy wildlife paradise” with Alan Burger. Thursday 21st November 2013, 7 PM at NVIT theatre
- “Photographing nature in BC” with Ian Routley. Thursday 17 October 2013, 7 PM at NVIT lecture theatre
- Member’s Photo Night and Annual General Meeting, 19 Sep 2013, 7 PM Room 001 NVIT
- Nicola Naturalists grasslands birding adds data to IBA – 2 June 2013
- “British Columbia’s Majestic Thompson River” by Bernie Fandrich. Thursday 23rd May 2013, 7PM at Merritt Civic Centre
- “Ecology of the Great Basin Spadefoot at its Northern Limit” by Jocelyn Garner. Thursday 18th April 2013, 7PM at NVIT Theatre
- “Williamson’s Sapsuckers: the Weird, the Wily and the Wonderful” – with Les Gyug. Thursday 21st March 2013, 7PM at NVIT Theatre
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count Results – 16 December 2012
- “Eradication of High Risk Invasives in the Thompson Drainage” by Steve Maricle. Thursday 21st February 2013, 7 PM – NVIT lecture theatre
- “Bats – Creatures of the Night” – with Dr. David Kerridge. Thursday 17 January 2013, 7 PM at NVIT
- “Forestry in the Nicola Valley: Managing for Multiple Values” with Aline Lachapelle & Jenn Reid. Thursday Nov 15, 7 PM NVIT Theatre
- “Raptors of Canada” with John Neville. Wednesday 10 October 2012, 7 PM at NVIT lecture theatre:
- Annual General Meeting and Members’ Photo Night – Thursday 20 Sep 2012, 7 PM at NVIT
- Birding outing to the Douglas Lake grasslands and Beaver Ranch Flats – Sunday 16 September, 8 AM – 3PM
- Photos from the Harmon Interpretive Forest outing – 26 May 2012
- Visit to the Harmon Interpretive Forest – 26 May 2012
- Workshop: Basics of Using a GPS – with Murphy Shewchuk. Saturday 21 April, 1 PM at NVIT, room U029
- Snowy visit to Harmon Lake Interpretive Forest – photo gallery
- “Sharkwater” – award-winning feature documentary. Wednesday March 28th, 7 PM at NVIT theatre
- Gardening with native plants in the Southern Interior – an evening with author Eva Durance. Thursday 19 April, 7 PM at NVIT
- What we don’t know about mosquitoes: West Nile Virus research in the Nicola Valley. Thursday 15th March, 7 PM at NVIT
- Restoring Nature in the Thompson Highlands – Thursday 16th February, 7 PM in the NVIT Lecture Theatre
- Merritt Christmas Bird Count – 2 January 2012
- Amphibians in peril: conserving frogs in a changing world – 26th January 2012, 7 PM at NVIT
- Winter bird identification workshop – Saturday 10 December 2011, 12-2 PM
- Across the top of Russia: wildlife adventures on the Northeast Passage – 17 November 2011, 7 PM at NVIT
- Birding outing held on 11 June 2011
- NNS Amphibian Workshop a big success, 14-16 May 2011
- Wonders of the High Arctic in a Changing Climate – 13 January 2011 at NVIT
- Bunchgrass, Buzztails, and Burrowers: conserving our native grassland predators – 18 Nov 2010
- Cowboy Country Critters – by Jared Hobbs. Tuesday Oct 19, 2010
- Grizzly Bear Conservation in Southwest BC – Thursday 7 April at NVIT
- NNS field outing on 26 June 2010
- Painting with Light: Creativity in Outdoor Photography – Thursday 21 April, 7 PM at NVIT
- Bear Awareness – Thursday 17 March 2011, 7 PM at NVIT
- Burrowing Owls – Thursday 17 Feb 2011, 7 PM at NVIT