This past spring, the Pennsylvania Society of Ornithology awarded Rider Park funds from their 2024 PA Breeding Bird Blitz fundraiser. Rider Park will use the nearly $7,000 award to improve American Woodcock habitats at the park. Locals also participated in the 2024 blitz. “Each year during ...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Department of Education secretary Dr. Khalid N. Mumin and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced the third-annual Pennsylvania Summer Learning and Literacy Road Trip, which provides virtual early learning and literacy activities for kids that inspire kids to read and learn more about the great outdoors. The Summer Learning and Literacy Road Trip is an eight-week virtual road trip throughout Pennsylvania, geared towards families with young children up to kindergarten age -- but easily adaptable for older ...
RIDER PARK BLUEBIRD TRAIL WHERE: Rider Park WHEN: See lycomingaudubon.com for details as date and time are subject to change NOTES: Explore the Lycoming Audubon Bluebird Trail while monitoring nest boxes. You’ll be able to learn about the bluebirds, their calls, nests, habitat and how they raise their young. Please email Bruce Buckle at bcbuckle60@gmail.com beforehand to confirm as the monitoring schedule is subject to change. The program is free and open to the public. SUMMER WILDFLOWERS OF LITTLE PINE WHERE: Little Pine State Park WHEN: Friday, July 19 at 8 ...
Several weeks ago, I went grocery shopping with Mary Alice. I watched as she selected a carton of eggs and I was surprised at the cost range of a dozen eggs. One carton of a dozen free roaming chicken eggs was priced at $6.12. I read on the carton that these chickens had 108 square feet per hen to roam about. There were also brown eggs from free roaming chickens priced at $4.75 a dozen, however there was no information on the carton as to the area allowed for these chickens to roam. The price for regular white eggs from pen-raised chickens was $2.50. I asked Mary Alice if the ...
HARRISBURG — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced the department is seeking applicants for its NextGen Advisory Council. The Council strives to have members with a broad range of cultures, experiences, and perspectives to inform the agency’s work and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Council members will aid in creating lasting change and necessary conditions to ensure all Pennsylvanians -- especially the next generation -- can connect to public lands, natural resources, recreation, and conservation. “The ...
Sixteen middle school girls from across the Susquehanna Valley visited the Montour Preserve on Thursday, June 27, for a special CSIU STEM Camp program.They got to visit various popular areas of the preserve, getting a wide variety of experiences designed to expand their STEM skills while ...
