The April 29 Take Five Fridays With Pam is now available from the PA Parks & Forests Foundation.

Plant A Tree - Create A Healthier Planet

Reminder: PPFF never solicits donations over the telephone.

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: Fed Woods Trail, Elk State Forest by Daniel Minjack.)

NewsClips:

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Outdoor Recreation Contributes Nearly $60 Billion In PA, New Study Says

-- Bay Journal: Volunteers Needed In PA To Help Maintain Trails Strained By Record Use - By Ad Crable

-- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Wildfire Fighters Train With Controlled Blazes In Parks Township

-- Patch: New Stretch Of Schuylkill River Trail Opens In Chester County

-- The Center Square: Surface Drilling On State Lands In PA Could Spur Hundreds of Millions In Royalties [No, 65% Of Current Shale Gas Leases On State Forest Land Are Undeveloped]

Related Articles This Week:

-- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership: Outdoor Recreation Spending In PA Up 26% 

-- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: Outdoor Recreation Contributes Nearly $60 Billion In PA, New Study Says

-- Bay Journal: Volunteers Needed In PA To Help Maintain Trails Strained By Record Use - By Ad Crable

-- DCNR Dedicates Trailhead Signs In Lebanon, Schuylkill Counties To Honor George H. Kaufman, Former Jonestown Mayor, Longtime DCNR Employee

-- DCNR Celebrates Induction Of Boyd Big Tree Preserve In Dauphin County Into The Old-Growth Forest Network 

-- Lancaster Conservancy's Otter Creek Nature Preserve In York County Inducted Into Old-Growth Forest Network 

-- Western PA Conservancy Protects 289 Acres Of Forestland, Headwater Streams In Westmoreland County

-- Ross Family Partners With Natural Lands To Preserve Haycock Mountain In Bucks County 

-- Musser Gap To Valleylands Conservation Plan Moving Forward With Community Input In State College

-- DCNR To Begin Spraying Forests In Spongy Moth Suppression Effort

-- DCNR Announces $250,000 Grant For Dickson City Park Rehab Project In Lackawanna County

-- DCNR Announces $70,000 Grant For Greenfield Twp. Park Project In Lackawanna County

-- Bay Journal Forum: Only Heavenly Waters Will Do For Eastern Hellbenders

[Posted: April 29, 2022]

5/2/2022