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THE FRIENDS of RIDLEY CREEK STATE PARK the Friends THE FRIENDS OF RIDLEY CREEK STATE PARK The Friends VOL XI ISSUE 1 SPRING/SUMMER 2018 JOIN THE STREAMS CLEANUP PROJECT ON APRIL 21! The Friends of Ridley Creek Gradyville Road from the INSIDE THIS ISSUE State Park will be celebrating east, this bridge is at the Earth Day Weekend this bottom of the hill just before year by working with the the Ridley Creek State Park CRC STREAMS 1 Chester Ridley Crum (CRC) entrance. The equestrian CLEANUP Watershed Association trail runs under the bridge at their 21st Annual CRC at this location. For safety Streams Cleanup. The event reasons we do not intend to PHILLIP 2 SCHMIDT will be on Saturday, April 21, clean up along Gradyville Road. There will be a ASH TREE 3 CRC Event sign placed REMOVAL on the bridge to make the area easy to find. HYNER VIEW 4 If you volunteer, you STATE PARK will be provided with work gloves, bottled FRIENDS 6 water, and granola PHOTO bars. You will also CONTEST receive a CRC T-shirt for your participation. You should wear a PPFF PHOTO 6 CONTEST long sleeve shirt, long pants, and be prepared to wade through the FRIENDS 7 Creek to complete our PICNIC mission. from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM. CALENDAR OF 7 We will clear the creek EVENTS Our work area will be the bridge on Gradyville Road of any debris and place it where the road crosses in trash bags for collection over Ridley Creek. We are by CRC. Trash bags will recruiting Friends volunteers be placed along Gradyville Editor to clean up the stream and Road for pickup at the end Joan Nikelsky banks on both sides of the of the event. Once we clear bridge and we invite you to the area around and under Designer be one of them! the bridge and place our Cathleen Bolduc collected trash for pickup, When traveling down cont. on page 6 FRIENDS OF RCSP VOICEMAIL PLEASE CONTACT YOUR FRIENDS AT ANY TIME WITH YOUR COMMENTS AND/OR QUESTIONS. LEAVE A MESSAGE AT 484-442-0223, AND SOMEONE WILL GET BACK TO YOU ASAP! PAGE 2 VOL XI ISSUE 1 MEET OUR PARK MANAGER PHILLIP SCHMIDT There’s a new guy in Phillip gave a big shout on this land. It’s our job to town -- well, not actually out to our Friends group protect it.” new since he’s a native and volunteers who help Phillips has a couple of Philadelphian! Please maintain the trails and help short term goals he has set welcome Phillip Schmidt keep the park so beautiful. for himself and his team: as our new Park Manager. He said, “Our budget is (1) Get some of the invasive Phillip comes to us from so small, and there is so species to a managed Caledonia State Park- which much to do, we couldn’t level (friends…I think he’s is just west of Gettysburg- accomplish it all without our calling) and (2) Getting the where he served as Park volunteers. We appreciate history of the Park out to the Manager. community and So, why did he visitors. Two good head back this goals to be sure. way, besides the So, if you’re ready fact that our park to help, Phillip will is amazing? He put you to work! wanted to be If you haven’t closer to friends already, we hope and family, of you get a chance course. And to meet Phillip like any true - he’s a great Philadelphian, addition to our when I asked him Park system. His where he went enthusiasm for to school, he told Ridley is palpable me Lincoln High and his love for School, then went the outdoors on to tell me Penn abundant, “This is State where he the best job ever. studied Wildlife & As a manager it’s Fishery Science. fun to plan what’s Saying your high going to happen school first is at the park and always a dead see the change giveaway! happen. What An interesting more could I ask fact as we get for? I absolutely to know Phillip love this job!” better - back in 2003 he was everything they do for us.” Now that he’s back home part of a project that took Taking the job here and settling in - a dog just GPS readings from the field might be in the future of and created park maps. at Ridley Creek holds interesting challenges for this new park manager. We Two guesses at who helped will see. In the meantime, create the Ridley Creek Phillip. He talked about being way out in the country welcome Phillip! We are State Park maps we use glad you’re here. today? I hope you guessed and protecting those lands, Phillip! So, needless to say, but then brought it closer Lauren Bacigalupi is a he‘s been all over the park to home. “This is more of member of the Friends of Ridley and trails and he really loves an urban setting, so it’s Creek State Park. them. so important to make sure Sinnemahoning State Park people are not encroaching SPRING/SUMMER 2018 PAGE 3 RIDLEY CREEK STATE PARK ASH TREE REMOVAL PROJECT In case you’ve been to the As of March 1st, park recently and wondered most of the work has about so many trees been completed. At being cut down, here’s the this point, the rest scoop – Ridley Creek State of the work will take Park has many ash trees place in the forest throughout the park which stands along the north are dramatically impacted section of Sandy Flash by the emerald ash borer, an Drive. Because of this, invasive wood-boring insect. that section of road This insect kills nearly will remain closed every ash tree in a forest for the duration of stand once it becomes the project. The tree infected. These dead felling and removal trees then pose a hazard is expected to be to anyone and anything in completed by May the surrounding area. With 2018. Once removal the many severe storms we is complete, re- have had in the last several planting plans will be years, these trees can and implemented. will come down at the most The emerald ash inopportune times. It’s borer infests all ash better to take them down species. The larvae under control rather than live and feed just have the trees come down under the tree bark. on their own. This damage disrupts In early January, in the transport of water cooperation with the and nutrients between Bureau of Forestry of the the roots, leaves, and products industry, said Department of Conservation growing tissues, causing DCNR Secretary Cindy and Natural Resources a rapid decline and death Adams Dunn. She added (DCNR), Ridley Creek State of the tree. The structural that “active monitoring and Park started an ash tree traits of ash, those that also management for invasive harvest. The timber salvage make ash an excellent wood species such as the emerald sale is being used to remove for baseball bats, render ash borer is essential if ash and hazardous trees at dying trees hazardous. Pennsylvania forests are various areas throughout When branches break off or to survive the last several the park, mainly in areas trees come down it is often decades of changing of higher usage such as quick and unpredictable -- climate, land-use patterns, picnic and pavilion areas, resembling a baseball bat declines in forest health, around the historic Hunting shattering. and the economic recession Hill Mansion, and along Pennsylvania’s 17 million that threaten forest-related the heavily used Multi-Use acres of forestland provide values and reduce the Trail. Overseen by DCNR’s critical values to society, number of forest-based Bureau of Forestry, the including clean water, jobs.” salvage harvest effort will recreation opportunities, entail retention of all other plant and animal habitat, This article was contributed healthy, hardwood tree and raw materials for a species in the area. by Park Manager Phillip long-established forest Schmidt. PAGE 4 VOL XI ISSUE 1 EXPLORING PENNSYLVANIA’S PARKS: HYNER VIEW STATE PARK So far in this State Parks Conservation Corps during neat perspective of passing Series we have looked the Depression Era. The motorists on the roadway at several very special stone platform sits high on a below. places found within hillside at the end of a long For those who are not the Commonwealth of winding road that twists keen on heights, Hyner View Pennsylvania. This time its way up the mountain may take a few moments around is no different -- and through the woods for to warm up to. However, Hyner View State Park is over 4 miles. Once visitors even visitors who don’t find a unique treasure like the arrive at the top, however, the 1,300 ft drop off to be others. This time we are they are greeted with a vertigo-inducing may likely going to Clinton County in dramatic 1,300 foot drop to be taken aback by some of North Central Pennsylvania. the valley floor below. From the park’s frequent users: Being only 6 acres, Hyner the observation deck you hang-gliders who “hang View doesn’t win many can see for miles in many out” just below the stone accolades for its size; directions. The most notable platform on wooden decks. however, it does provide feature is the west branch On any day with decent its own one-of-a-kind of the Susquehanna River weather and moderate to charm through its vertical winding across the valley no wind you will almost presence.
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