Feature - Be Inspired – Digest Features Highlight Wildlife, Good Works, Cutting Edge Ideas

The frequent Features articles in the PA Environment Digest in 2006 highlighted a variety of issues related to wildlife management, environmental protection and restoration and the good works of many trying out cutting edge ideas.

Here are just a few of the features we published in the Digest in 2006.

Watershed Groups in Rural Pennsylvania Have Gone Mainstream

Urban Oasis: The Overbrook Environmental Education Center

Interest in Native Plants Growing for Nurseries Like Octoraro

Northern Saw-Whet Owl Banding Project Completes 9th Year

No-Till Economics Can Brighten Bottom Line

Part I - Townships Collaborate with Conservation Districts

Part II - Townships Collaborate with Conservation Districts

Desilting Basin Finds New Life as Wildlife Habitat, Educational Sanctuary

Chase Away Those Bluebird Blues, By Joe Kosack, Game Commission

Annual Migration of Snow Geese, Tundra Swans Delights Visitors at Middle Creek

Mine Water Could Help Provide Make Up Water in Susquehanna Basin Drought

Conservation Easement Assistance Helps Land Trusts Conserve 6,153 Acres

Caring for William Penn’s Great Oak, By Jim Crater

Remembering the Accident at Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979

Along Mill Creek, Amish Do The Right Thing, By Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era

Got Hummingbirds?

Earth Day 36 Years Young

Loyalhanna Watershed Assn. Recognized With Governor’s Award

Tom Ridge Environmental Center Now Open at Presque Isle in Erie

Celebrating Partnerships in the Bennett Branch Watershed

Audenreid Treatment Project Dedicated, Will Clean Up 34 Miles of Catawissa Creek

Final State Budget Restores Some Environmental Funding Cuts, Not Big Ones

Bald Eagle Nests Top 100 For First Time in More Than a Century

Natural Challenges Confront Elk Calf Study Team, By Joe Kosack, Game Commission

Backyard Bird Oases, By Joe Kosack, Game Commission

State Historical Marker Dedicated at Quecreek Mine Rescue Event

Pennsylvania’s Wildlife Action Plan Praised

Paddlers Congregate on Lake Erie’s Shoreline During the Final PA River Sojourn

Fall Autumn’s Gold Includes Millions of Monarch Butterflies Migrating South

Junior Environment Corps Pilot Project Launched in the Wissahickon Watershed

Pennsylvania Birders Still Needed to Help With Atlas

Ospreys Call Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Home for the Next Few Weeks

Project WILD Helps Educators With Wildlife Conservation Curriculum

This Grocery Store Does More than Whet the Appetite

Game Commission Intensifies Efforts to Help Endangered Birds

Edge Density Key to Controlling Gypsy Moth Spread

French Creek Watershed, One of PA’s Last Great Places

Professor Reintroduces River Otter to Pennsylvania

Dickinson Students Engage in Chesapeake Bay, Lower Mississippi River Watershed

Allegheny-Butler Senior Environment Corps Protects Pine Creek Watershed

Citizen Scientists Join In Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count


12/29/2006

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