The email newsletter Take 5 Fridays With Pam from the PA Parks & Forests Foundation is filled with lots of good stories every week about activities that have happened or will happen in Pennsylvania’s State Parks and Forests.

The new Labor Day Weekend edition offered some great contrasts in photographs: the masthead photo was a blooming native Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus. 

Later on there was a photo from the Mud Day celebration in May at Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center where participants were invited to make a mud pie, paint with mud, throw mud at a target, or jump in the mud pit. Bring a towel, plastic bag, and a change of clothes visitors were reminded.

Such are the contrasts and opportunities in Pennsylvania’s State Parks and Forests.

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NewsClips:

Presque Isle Trail Still A Treasure After 15 Years

28 Things Happening At Presque Isle In September

Mid-State Poe Paddy Tunnel Design Accommodates Bats & Hikers

Take 5 Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation

Bike Repair Training Helps Refugees In Erie

23 Youth Tackle 170-Mile Watershed Sojourn In PA, NJ

Walkable Communities, Pave The Way To Obtain Health Benefits

Op-Ed: Save The Island Cabins On The Susquehanna River

Editorial: Martic Twp Residents Can Ante Up For Holtwood Park

National Parks In The Pokemon Go Era

Op-Ed: Are National Parks Still Relevant?

9/5/2016