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P Ennsylvania Forests Pennsylvania Forests QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION Volume 111 Number 1 Spring 2020 quarterly magazine of the pennsylvania forestry association YOUR Forest Landowner Pennsylvania forests LOCAL VOLUME 111 | NUMBER 1 MISSION STATEMENT The Pennsylvania Forestry Association is a broad-based citizen’s organization that provides leadership and LINK Associations education in sound, science-based forest management; we promote stewardship to ensure the sustainability of all forest resources, resulting in benefits for all, today and into the future. Joining a local association dedicated to forest stewardship is an excellent way to become involved in sustaining Pennsylvania’s forest COVER resources. Currently, nearly 1,000 people are members of the 21 local associations involved in forest stewardship in Pennsylvania. While a Money Rocks County Park spans over 300 acres of woodland in the Welsh majority of members own forestland, most groups do not require land ownership. Mountains of eastern Lancaster County. The pride of the park is a rocky spine of boulders called Money Rocks, so-named because farmers in the Pequea Valley The objective of most Forest Landowner Associations is to provide educational opportunities for members. Although each group is allegedly hid cash among the rocks. The ridge offers beautiful views of farmland, independent, and missions and membership policies differ, most use meetings, field demonstrations, tours, seminars and newsletters to towns, and distant wooded hills with spectacular lines of boulders. The rocks provide information about forests and sound forest management to their members and people in the local communities. are patched with lichens, mosses, and ferns. Black birch trees dominate the surrounding woodland with a thick understory of mountain laurel. The Welsh If learning more about the stewardship of Pennsylvania’s forest resources interests you, consider joining one of the local organizations listed Mountains harbor the second-largest continuous forest left in Lancaster County, here. If there is no group in your area, consider starting one. superseded only by Furnace Hills. Money Rocks County Park preserves a nice part of that forest, which is in various stages of natural plant succession. A network For more information, contact the Penn State Forest Resources Extension office at 1.800.235.9473 (toll free) or visit of mining and logging dirt roads makes much of this wooded park accessible to extension.psu.edu/natural-resources/forests/private/woodland-owners-associations. nature lovers. The cover photograph is by Nicholas A. Tonelli, taken in Money Rocks County Park, Caernarvon Township, Allegheny Mountain Woodlands Association Mercer County Woodland Owners Association Tioga County Woodland Owners Association Lancaster County, PA. on 8 April 2012. You can find more examples of his beautiful work at https://www.flickr. c/o Paul Noll, 524 Noll Road, Loretto, PA 15940 PO Box 530, Mercer, PA 16137 c/o Anne Alexander, P.O. Box 2 com/people/nicholas_t/. http://amwa.treesofpa.com Email: [email protected] Nelson, PA 16940 (Cambria County) http://www.mcwoa.org Email: [email protected] SPRING ARTICLES www.TCWOA.org Plan to Host a Walk in Penn’s Woods in 2020 .....................................................................................................................7 Bradford-Sullivan Forest Landowners’ Association Mifflin Juniata Perry County Woodland Owners 2020 PFA Conservation Dinner ....................................................................................................................................... 8-9 PO Box 473, Wysox, PA 18854 c/o Lucas Book, 4455 Big Spring Road Tri-County Woodland Owners Association Request for Nominations: Sandy Cochran Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Education ...................................10 Email: [email protected] Blain, PA 17006 c/o John Nissen, 845 Park Road, Elverson, PA Request for Nominations: PFA Mira Lloyd Dock Outstanding Woman Conservationist Award .......................................10 https://www.facebook.com/ 717-536-3191 • Email: [email protected] 19520-9523 Request for Nominations: Joseph T. Rothrock Award .....................................................................................................11 BradfordSullivanForestLandownerAssociation/ 610-582-9660 • Email: [email protected] Pennsylvania Foresty Association Memorial Forestry Education Fund ...........................................................................12 North Central Forest Landowners Association (Lancaster, Berks, and Chester Counties) Purple, A New Color in the Woods ...................................................................................................................................12 Central Susquehanna Woodland Owners PO Box 141, Port Allegheny, PA 16743 PDA Adds 12 Counties to Pennsylvania’s Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine .......................................................................13 Association http://ncfla2.wixsite.com/website Westmoreland Woodlands Improvement Leave No Trace Earth Day Hiking ......................................................................................................................................33 c/o Williams, 348 Sereno Hollow Road, (Cameron, Elk, McKean, and Potter Counties) Association John Muir; America’s Naturalist ........................................................................................................................................34 Millville, PA 17846 218 Donohoe Road, Greensburg, PA 15601 Email: [email protected] Northwest Pennsylvania Woodland Association 724-837-5271 ext. 106 SPECIAL ARTICLES - EARTH DAY AT 50 (Columbia, Luzerne, Montour, Northumberland, c/o Guy Dunkle www.westmorelandwoodlands.org Earth Day 50 and the PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry .................................................................................................... 14-15 Snyder, and Union Counties) Email: [email protected] Origins of Earth Day .................................................................................................................................................... 16-17 https://sites.google.com/site/ Woodland Owners of Clarion-Allegheny Valley 1970 - The First Earth Day at PFA ............................................................................................................................... 18-19 Cumberland Woodland Owners Association nwpawoodlandassociation/ PO Box 194, Corsica, PA 15829 Earth Day 50 ................................................................................................................................................................20-21 c/o Mike Waldron, 165 Clines Church Road (Crawford, Erie, and Warren Counties) 814-354-6206 • Email: [email protected] Oh, The Memories .............................................................................................................................................................22 Aspers, PA 17304 http://www.thewocav.org Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire ...................................................................................................................................23 Email: [email protected] Pike-Monroe Woodland Owners (Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Impact & Inspiration ....................................................................................................................................................24-25 http://cumberlandwoodlandowners c/o Garrett Beers, DCNR, 2174A Route 611, and Venango Counties) Planting Memories of Earth Day .......................................................................................................................................25 association.blogspot.com Swiftwater, PA 18370 Earth Day at 50: Pennsylvania Milestones in Forestry ................................................................................................26-28 570-895-4039 • Email: [email protected] Clarion County Forest Stewardship Committee PA Earth Day 50 Events And Activities ..............................................................................................................................29 Dauphin County Woodland Owners Association http://delawarehighlands.org/initiatives/pmwog c/o Lee Swoger, 158 2nd Street Pennsylvania Forests: Looking at the Past to See Into the Future ............................................................................. 30-32 c/o Andy Brought, 2800 White Oak Road, Clarion, PA 16214 Halifax, PA 17032 Southeast Forest Resources Association 814-226-1901 • Email: [email protected] REGULAR FEATURES 717-362-1152 c/o George Kaufman, 1825 Upper Ridge Road, Forest Landowner Associations..........................................................................................................................................2 Email: [email protected] or Green Lane, PA 18054 Woodland Owners of the Southern Alleghenies PFA 2020 Officers and Board of Directors ..........................................................................................................................4 [email protected] (Bucks and Montgomery Counties) PO Box 253, Everett, PA 15537 Membership and Contributions ..........................................................................................................................................4 www.dcwoa.org 717-485-3148 • http://www.thewosa.org Timber Market Report .........................................................................................................................................................4
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