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Anais Martinez Autumn 2017 Calendar All activities begin at the Osprey House unless otherwise noted. For directions and more information on these events, and to fnd out about additional activities, contact the Center or check the website. September 17 – Lehigh Gap Bike & Boat November 3-12 – Nature in Art Exhibition 12:30-4:30 p.m. Explore the Lehigh Gap by bike and canoe Our ffth annual juried art exhibition. View and/or purchase on a guided excursion hosted by LGNC and Wildlands works from local artists. Vote for the People’s Choice Conservancy. Bikes and canoes provided. Tickets available Award. Artists’ reception November 12. for $25 at the following link: bit.ly/LGNCBandB. November 4 – Fall Campfre and Astronomy September 23 – Migration Fest 6:30 p.m. Join us for a campfre, s’mores, and stars. 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Our annual celebration of hawk November 11 – More or Less 10K Trail Run (and 2-Mile migration and Applachian Mountain ecology. Learn about Scamper) the annual fall spectacle of hawks and butterfies migrating 9:00 a.m. See www.lgnc10k.com for more information. along the Kittatinny Ridge. Live raptor program at 1:00 p.m. Other festivities to be announced. November 16 – Cabin Fever Book Club 10:00 a.m. The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf October 14 – Second Saturday Bird Walk 9:00 a.m. Visit Bake Oven Knob to see migrating Sharpies November 18 – Hawk Watch Celebration and falcons. Meet at the Osprey House at 9:00 a.m. or go 6:30 p.m. All are welcome to celebrate the 57th Bake Oven directly to the lookout. Knob Hawk Count. Following a presentation of the count data by Bob Hoopes, guest speaker Dave Levandusky October 21 – LGNC and Allentown Hiking Club Autumn will show us some of his wildlife photos Refuge Hike from the past year. 1:00 p.m. Hike with us along the Prairie Grass and Chestnut Oak trails. Wear sturdy shoes and bring water. December 2 – Holiday Open House This will be a six-mile hike with a 600-foot elevation gain. 1:00-3:00 p.m. Join us for holiday crafts and explore Great views. nature in winter. Bring some goodies to share and make a holiday decoration for your home. December 7 – Cabin Fever Book Club August 15 - November 26 10:00 a.m. The Secret Lives of Bats by Merlin Tuttle Bake Oven Knob Hawk Count Join us on the lookout to help with the PLEASE TELL US WHAT YOU 57th annual Autumn Hawk Count as a THINK OF WILDLIFE ACTIVIST volunteer counter or spotter, to learn Contact Information about the raptors, their ecology and Phone: 610-760-8889 migrations, or just to enjoy the view and Email: [email protected] the spectacle of the hawk fight. The Website: http://lgnc.org lookout is staffed daily by our research Also on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter intern or by LGNC volunteers. Lehigh Gap Nature Center Administration and Management The day-to-day operations of the Lehigh Gap Nature Center are managed by the Executive Director, Dan Kunkle, and two Program Specialists, Chad Schwartz and Brian Birchak. Kate Brandes runs our Landscaping for Communities and Wildlife program. Governance of the organization rests with the volunteer Board of Directors. A Board of Advisors serves in various advisory capacities on an as-needed basis to the executive director and the Board of Directors. Anne Zagarella and Jane Borbe are the Information Specialist team leaders. Jim Gabovitz is our Trail Specialist. Reuben Kunkle serves as our Financial Secretary, and Donna Gasser is our Membership Coordinator. Many thanks to our dedicated volunteers! Board of Directors Board of Advisors Anita Collins, Ph.D., President Keith L. Bildstein, Ph.D. Roland Kushner, Ph.D. Diane Husic, Ph.D., Vice President John Dickerson Chris Martin Ron Kline, Ph.D., Secretary Holly A. Heintzelman, Esq. Carl Oplinger, Ph.D. Robert Hoopes, Treasurer Miriam Huertas David Shaffer George Beam Janet Mauer Towlene Jackson Sue Tantsits Frederic Brock Nelson Markley, Ph.D. Barb Egerton Isidor “Bill” Mineo, Ph.D. Marilyn Jordan, Ph.D. WILDLIFE ACTIVIST A Newsletter Devoted to Wildlife and Habitat Protection and Restoration at Lehigh Gap on the Kittatinny Ridge and Beyond. Published by the Lehigh Gap Nature Center Autumn 2017, Number 81 Contents 3 Executive Director’s Message: Building Resilience by Dan R. Kunkle 4 President’s Message by Anita Collins 5 Our Forests are Disintegrating by Marilyn Jordan 7 The Unlikely Origins of Our Ubiquitous Invasives by Chad Schwartz 10 The Forgotten Forests of Itasca State Park by Bruce Rabenold 11 Don Heintzelman: A Lifetime of Conservation Work by Dan R. Kunkle 12 Ken the Kestrel by Donald S. Heintzelman 13 Anais Martinez: The Future of Conservation by Chad Schwartz 14 Refections on E.O. Wilson’s Half Earth by Dan R. Kunkle 15 Board Member Spotlight: Isidore “Bill” Mineo by Dan R. Kunkle 17 Volunteer Spotlight: Bonnie Pancoast by Chad Schwartz 19 Lehigh Gap Nature Center News and Events LGNC Hosts Three Ecology-themed Summer Camps; An Active Year for LGNC’s Youth Clubs; CorreCtion Regarding St. George’s ChurCh; Color of Nature Program Update; Nature in Photos 2017; Eagle Scout Project to Beneft LGNC Grasslands; and 2017 Quilt Raffe 27 LGNC Events and Highlights in Photos 29 Featured Book Reviews: Oil and Honey and American Canopy original painting by Brad Kunkle Prairie Warbler, 30 Wildlife Book Reviews 41 Donations, New Members, Volunteer Service, Business Members 45 Endowment Fund Update Front Cover: White-tailed Deer Buck Photo by Dave Levandusky, Design by Brad R. Kunkle Back Cover: White-tailed Deer Fawns, Photo by Dave Levandusky Wildlife Activist (ISSN 0894-4660) is the newsletter of the Lehigh Gap Nature Center (Wildlife Information Center, Inc.), a member-supported, nonproft, tax-exempt wildlife conservation organization whose mission is to “to protect the wildlife and enhance the habitats of our Refuge, the neighboring Kittatinny Ridge, and the Lehigh River Watershed through conserva- tion, education, research, and outdoor recreation to improve the quality of life of present and future generations.” Members receive Wildlife Activist two times per year as part of their annual membership benefts. Send requests for permission to reprint items contained herein to: Lehigh Gap Nature Center, PO Box 198, Slatington, PA 18080-0198, 610-760-8889, [email protected], www.lgnc.org. Single copy price, $8. Copyright © 2017. A copy of the offcial registration and fnancial information for Wildlife Information Center, Inc. may be obtained by calling the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charities, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. 3 Wildlife Activist No. 81 Autumn 2017 Executive Director’s Message: psyche by providing programs about the restoration to many community groups and by seeking support in the Building Resilience form of memberships from the community. By giving Our Board of Directors Vice President, Diane people an opportunity to support the Nature Center, Husic, recently gave a talk at a conference in Uganda we gave them a vehicle to support the restoration. featuring Lehigh Gap Nature Center and focusing on Membership in the organization has been developing “building resilience and community.” In preparing her the environmental education center on the Superfund poster for the conference, she shared with me some of land – the only such transformation of a Superfund the key points she was asked to address and asked me site to an environmental education center in the to share my opinions about them. I thought it would be country. In addition, we have involved the academic worth sharing the points and my responses with you – institutions of the area in helping us perform research after all, they heard about it in Uganda – I guess you to answer questions for which we need information to should know! help guide our management decisions. A) Why/how is the landscape more resilient now? C) Share two or three key lessons emerging from How does this ecological resilience affect human your research. resilience or adaptive capacity? 1) Partnerships and collaborations are key to We started with zero resilience in the landscape. success. Zero organic layer in the soil, zero O horizon of 2) “…forget that the task of planet saving is soil (topsoil layer), zero life in most places. Now we not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by have a somewhat tentative and fairly non-complex people who know what is not possible. Do what needs community of organisms, but there are enough species to be done, and check to see if it was possible only that no single species dominates. Therefore there is after you are done.” Paul Hawken redundancy/resilience in the system. While the metals 3) With unique restoration problems, beware remain in the soil, there is almost no danger of a of experts with knowledge of what will not work. The collapse of the ecosystem because of the diversity that warm season grasses we used were not supposed to occurs here on formerly barren, contaminated land. grow when broadcast – they need to be incorporated An organic layer is developing slowly, and organic into the soil very precisely with a seed drill. That is matter is being added to the soil annually. what the experts said and that is true in a fertile feld Humans don’t live on this land or use it for because the weeds will overgrow them and choke them their physical needs. However, this restoration has out. There was no competition from weeds in the early provided valuable recreational space for many, and stages of our project because of the unique nature the psychological resilience of people of the area has of the site.
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