From beaubaire at bhwp.org Tue May 5 14:52:48 2009 From: beaubaire at bhwp.org (Nancy Beaubaire) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:52:48 -0400 Subject: [PAEE] Spring Native Plant Sale at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Starts This Weekend Message-ID: Spring Native Plant Sale at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Preserve Members' Day (join on the spot or in advance by calling (215) 862-2924 or visiting the Preserve) Friday, May 8 1-2 p.m. - Lecture by Bob Mahler, Nursery Manager, features Sale highlights 2-7 p.m. - Sale open to Members only. Sale Open to the Public Saturday and Sunday, May 9 & 10 and 16 & 17, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. More than 200 species of nursery-propagated native perennials, shrubs, trees, vines and ferns native to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the Delaware Valley region will be offered for sale. Knowledgeable staff and volunteers are available to help you choose plants and answer questions. The largest selection of plants is available on the sale weekends, but plants also can be purchased during the week in between. The Spring Native Plant Sale Catalog can be downloaded at http://www.bhwp.org/pdf/PlantSaleCat09.pdf. The Sale is held at the Preserve, located on 1635 River Road (PA Rt. 32) about 2.5 miles south of New Hope, Pennsylvania and convenient to I-95. For directions, visit www.bhwp.org (click on Visiting BHWP, then Location, Directions & Map). Native plant sales help support the Preserve's education and conservation programs. Selected plants also are available to buy at the Preserve during the growing season. Nancy ___________________ Nancy Beaubaire Director of Communications Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve P.O. 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Spring Birding - May 15-16 $65 Intro to PA Forests - July 9 $45 Climate Change Institute - July 21-23 $75 Water, Ice & Rocks - Aug 7 $45 Fran Fran Bires, Director McKeever Center 55 McKeever Lane Sandy Lake, PA 16145 724.376.1000 724.376.8235 fax fran at mckeever.org www.mckeever.org Please consider the environment before printing this email. Kathy Powell, Secretary McKeever Environmental Learning Center 55 McKeever Lane Sandy Lake PA 16145 Phone 724-376-1000 Fax 724-376-8235 Email: kathy at mckeever.org Website: www.mckeever.org Please consider the environment before printing this email -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adevine at state.pa.us Wed May 6 13:03:49 2009 From: adevine at state.pa.us (Devine, Ann) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:03:49 -0400 Subject: [PAEE] Peregrine Falcon Banding Event - May 27th In-Reply-To: <21F1DB4CCF74A24D955C79B50F0F414513E9AD4900@ENHBGMBX03.PA.LCL> Message-ID: <21F1DB4CCF74A24D955C79B50F0F414513E9AD4901@ENHBGMBX03.PA.LCL> Educators and Students Invited to Attend Peregrine Falcon Banding Event on May 27th On Wednesday, May 27th, the Dept. of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania Game Commission will host its annual Peregrine Falcon banding event in the Rachel Carson State Office Building's auditorium in Harrisburg from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Teachers, non-formal educators and students are invited to attend this event where biologists will weigh and band five newly-hatched nestlings. To register for this event, please either reply back through email or call me at (717) 772-1644, for a registration form. There is no cost to attend the banding event. Since 1997, a pair of Peregrine Falcons have made their home on the 15th floor ledge of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg. The falcon pair has successfully reproduced since 2000, and this Spring, the female falcon again laid a clutch, or nest, of five eggs. Thanks in advance, and should you have any questions, please let me know. Ann Devine Ann Devine | Environmental Education Regional Program Coordinator Department of Environmental Protection Rachel Carson State Office Building 400 Market Street | Harrisburg, PA 17101 Phone: 717.772.1644 | Fax: 717.705.4093 www.depweb.state.pa.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rroperti at zoominternet.net Wed May 20 16:31:16 2009 From: rroperti at zoominternet.net (rroperti at zoominternet.net) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:31:16 -0400 Subject: [PAEE] Fw: Heard Around PA Parks (and Forests) Message-ID: <04c701c9d989$ece6b7a0$6401a8c0@D9V66M11> Newsletter ----- Original Message ----- From: Pam Metzger To: rroperti at zoominternet.net Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:18 PM Subject: Heard Around PA Parks (and Forests) Heard Around the Parks (and Forests) Public Input Needed for Pennsylvania Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources staff, along with Penn State University researchers, will host three public input sessions to provide comment and recommendations for the 2009-2013 Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan. Attendees will get a chance to provide input on a set of draft recommendations produced by a multi-agency task force of recreation specialists. Every five years, Pennsylvania produces a plan that provides citizens, policymakers, and recreation professionals with a snapshot of current trends and issues in outdoor recreation. The plan also helps set the agenda for state recreation policy, planning, funding, and implementation for the next five years and beyond. Public input to this process is critical-ensuring a broad representation of interests, views and ideas. The sessions, all 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., will be held: . Monday, June 1 - Four Points by Sheraton, 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars; . Tuesday, June 2 - Ramada, 1450 S Atherton Street, State College; and . Wednesday, June 3 - DeSales University, 2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley. Come and let your voice be heard in support of your parks and forests! Help Make Ohiopyle Pittsburgh's #1 Park Speaking of letting your voice be heard, Nickelodeon's very cool parenting website, Parents Connect, has announced its annual Parents Pick competition, encouraging its users in many great American cities to choose their favorite kid-friendly things and places. In the Pittsburgh region, Ohiopyle State Park is one of the choices for park or playground. So get on that website (http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/parents-picks/pittsburgh-pa-usa/best-pittsburgh-playground-or-park) and register your vote for one of our own! Right now we're in second place behind Frick Park (admittedly a lovely place) but the lead is not insurmountable. Vote daily from now until July 15th and let's put Ohiopyle on the map! This message was sent from Pam Metzger to rroperti at zoominternet.net. It was sent from: PA Parks & Forests Foundation, 420 Jacobs Street, Confluence, PA 15424. You can modify/update your subscription via the link below. 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I need a descriptive paragraph or two, directions, best time of year, and other details needed and helpful (like a great little diner nearby). A picture would be greatly appreciated, but not absolutely necessary. If I get a decent response, I will work this into a PAEE JOURNAL article to share with all. THANKS, Ruth Ruth Roperti 965 Edgewood Road Beaver Falls, PA 15010 rroperti at zoominternet.net 724 843 7046 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjgibson at epix.net Sat May 30 10:28:00 2009 From: mjgibson at epix.net (Mary Jo Gibson) Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 10:28:00 -0400 Subject: [PAEE] Great Sunflower Proj expands Message-ID: <940B6D13F8D74C52809309663BAD6334@D94YHV91> Second posting The Great Sunflower Project While most persons have heard about Colony Collapse Disorder in honey bees, few realize that all of our pollinators, butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles, wasps, and native bees may also be in decline. Gretchen LeBuhn of San Francisco State University has created a citizen science project to study the population of bees in North America. The Great Sunflower Project uses a native annual plant, the sunflower, to attract bees. Citizens simply plant sunflowers and twice monthly record the time it takes five bees to visit a blooming flower. If no bees arrive in 30 minutes, the observation time is finished. The Great Sunflower Project is giving small seed packets of the variety 'Lemon Queen' to participants to reduce variables in the experiment. 'Lemon Queen' grows five feet tall with 4-5" blossoms of clear yellow petals around a dark chocolate center and is just right for flower beds & even containers. For participants who are able, distinguishing among five different kinds of bees will give even more information to the project. The bee categories are simple: honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, green metallic bees, and "other" bees. All data is submitted on-line or by mail. This is a very well-planned project and it has received high praise from Sigma Xi, an honor society for science researchers. The Great Sunflower Project can be completed by anyone and everyone. Pollinators, especially bees, are essential to our food supply. Bees are responsible for every third bite of food. Please visit this website for more information: http://www.greatsunflower.org/ The Great Sunflower Project has expanded to include these other plants: * While we really want Sunflower data from everyone, many people have asked if they can collect data from some other species. So, we have expanded the list of plants that we are collecting data from to include Bee balm (Monarda), Cosmos (only the purple one), Tickseed (Coreopsis), Rosemary (non-native, herb), Lacy Phacelia, Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) and Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis). When you go to the submit observations page, you will have the option to choose Lemon Queen sunflower or any of these from the pull down menu. You can follow the same procedure that you do for a sunflower. If you would really like to send us data from a plant not on the list, please do so, however, it isn't really useful to us unless we have many people collecting from exactly the same varieties. We also do not want to bias our data by having everyone only pick the plant that has the most bees in their garden!! Mary Jo R. Gibson Penn State Master Gardener Columbia County Coordinator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: