The August 21 Take Five Fridays With Pam from the PA Parks and Forests Foundation is now available featuring articles on--

-- Get Acquainted With Swimming In State Parks, Forests - Video

-- Finding Less Busy Places To Recreate - Video - Spanish

-- General Rules In State Parks, Forests - Video - Spanish

-- Volunteer Day Samuel Lewis State Park Aug. 29 - Home Of The Let It Grow Video

-- 2020-21 State Parks Calendar Now Available - Proceeds Benefit Parks & Forests

-- Check Foundation Calendar and DCNR Calendar for events 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: Three Musketeerettes’ Picnic Spot, Ohiopyle State Park, Fayette County by Wendy Duchene.

NewsClip:

Grad Student Visited All 121 PA State Parks In 303 Days, Give That Guy A Bandanna

Related Articles This Week:

-- Republicans Want To Charge You For Admission, Parking At State Parks As Pennsylvanians Rush To Parks To Avoid The Pandemic

-- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Launches Campaign To Replace Fire Rings, Grills, Picnic Tables In Camping Areas During Unprecedented State Park & Forest Use

-- 4th DCNR Wildfire Crew Leaves For California; National Wildfire Center Raises Preparedness To Highest Level

-- DCNR Good Natured Blog: For Cleaner Water, Convert Some Lawn

-- Penn State Extension: Improving Local Water Quality Thru Lawn Conversion To Meadows

-- PA Horticultural Society Offering Basic Tree Tenders Training In September

-- DCNR Accepting Comments On Wild Resource Conservation Program Funding Allocations

-- DCNR Good Natured Pennsylvanians: Ben Mummert, Central PA Conservancy

-- PA Land Trust Assn: Sept. 22 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access On Recreational Trails Online Workshop

-- Wildlands Conservancy: Lehigh River Sojourn Set For Sept. 19-21, Register Now!

-- PA Farmland Preservation Program Adds 2,512 Acres, 33 Farms; 586,884 Total Acres Preserved

-- Aug. 19 Resource Newsletter Now Available From DCNR

-- Washington & Jefferson College To Lead Plants In The Human-Altered Environment Online Teaching Tools Project To Improve Habitats

[Posted: August 22, 2020]

8/24/2020