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Outdoor community calendar for week of July 4

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. SMART FISHING WHERE: Little Pine State Park WHEN: Thursday, July 4 at 9:30 a.m. NOTES: Have kids ...

Pine Creek Rail Trail is an asset to all those who use the trail

Pennsylvania state representative Jamie Flick, R-South Williamsport, represents the 83rd district and the City of Williamsport, but he’s more than familiar with Jersey Shore and the Pine Creek Rail Trail. That’s because he was a former Bulldog, having graduated from Jersey Shore, and ...

Research rediscovers ‘extinct’ ivory-billed woodpecker

The ivory-billed woodpecker, long-thought extinct, has been found to be alive and well — at least a few — by our very own Pennsylvanian Steve Latta. The largest woodpecker in North America, the ivory-billed woodpecker historically ranged from the Carolinas to Texas and up the Mississippi ...

Everyone can help save the planet

Green spaces flourish, healthy landscapes thrive, when trees and plants conducive to wildlife species are introduced, according to a noted entomologist and environmental figure. Doug Tallamy, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, recently addressed a local audience on ways for landowners to be good stewards of the environment by tending to their own properties. His message during a recent evening lecture at Lycoming College was a heartening message to anyone concerned about doing their part for the planet at a time when the ...

Volunteers needed to count state’s birds

HARRISBURG — Those birds you see in the backyard, around camp, while hiking or otherwise outside? They’re more important than you think. Reporting your observations of them is, too. The Game Commission, together with Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, is conducting the third Pennsylvania Bird Atlas in state history. Between now and February 2029, it will document what birds live in Pennsylvania, where and in what numbers. “The atlas will provide a snapshot of the population status and distribution of birds in the Commonwealth,” said Game Commission Ornithologist Sean Murphy. “No ...