PA Environment Digest Blog: May 20 Take Five Fridays With Pam From PA Parks & Forests Foundation

The May 20 Take Five Fridays With Pam is now available from the PA Parks & Forests Foundation.

Lots of events on the Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events for activities happening near you.

Click Here to read the entire Take Five.

For more information on programs, initiatives, special events and how you can get involved, visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundation website. Click Here to sign up for regular updates from the Foundation, Like them on Facebook or Follow them on Twitter or tune in to their YouTube Channel. Click Here to become a member of the Foundation.

The Foundation and their 46 chapters mobilize 65,000 volunteers annually to steward YOUR state parks and forests.

(Photo: Locust Lake State Park, Schuylkill County by Tom Buehl.))

Funding Needed To Repair State Park, Forest Infrastructure!

-- Crunch time is coming for the state budget. The time is now to advocate for using federal American Rescue Plan dollars to repair State Park, Forest Infrastructure. Click Here to learn more.

NewsClips:

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Forestry Camp Continues To Give PA Inmates Marketable Skills In Arboriculture

-- Erie Times: Summer Fun Ahead At Presque Isle State Park

-- TribLive: Allegheny Health Network, County Create ‘Ecotherapy Trail’ In North Park

-- York Daily Record: She Hiked The Appalachian Trail For Her Son And Found Herself

-- Scranton Times: Presents Meets Past At Fmr Marvine Colliery Section Of Lackawanna River Heritage Trail In Scranton

-- TribLive: Monroeville Begins Planning For Westmoreland Heritage Trail Connector Bridge

-- Reading Eagle: Funding Announced To Close Last Montgomery County Gap In Schuylkill River Trail

-- Shippensburg Chronicle: Stream Of Consciousness - Kayaking Our Way To Clean Streams

-- Erie Times - Brain Whipkey: Here’s How To Find A Kayak That Fits Your Needs, Size

-- Penn State Ethnobotanist Gets DCNR Grant To Improve Conservation Of PA Medicinal, Edible Plants

-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Point State Park In Pittsburgh Gets A Visit, Boost From DCNR Secretary [Funding To Pay For $1.4 Billion Maintenance Backlog]