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Pack up for 2024 summer learning, literacy road trip

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 ...

Community Outdoor calendar for week of July 16

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 ...

Reflections in Nature: No difference between color of chicken eggs

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 ...

Preparing for the future: DCNR seeks applicants for NextGen advisory council

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 ...

Success outdoors measured in mindful immersion

As Michael Kinney and his girlfriend, Missy, bedded down after a storm two nights before the final leg of their epic 24-day, 228-mile kayaking/canoeing West Branch Adventure, they shared a unique experience. “We slept in a mass hoard of hellgrammites. They were everywhere, crawling on us, ...