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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 superseded only by Furnace Hills.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 Southwestern PA Woodland Owners’ Association (Bedford and Fulton Counties) Thank You ...... 4 Huntingdon County Landowners Association 261 2nd Street, Oakmont, PA 15139 President’s Message ...... 5 c/o DCNR, 181 Rothrock Lane http://www.swpwopa.com Upcoming Wood and Forest Landowner Activities ...... 6 Huntingdon, PA 16652 (Allegheny, Washington, & Greene Counties) Pennsylvania Forests 2020 Advertising Rates ...... 6 814-643-2340 PFA E-mail List ...... 6 Susquehanna County Forest Landowners’ Membership Dues ...... 11 Laurel Highlands Forest Landowners Association Association Connecting Kids to Nature ...... 35 c/o Russell Gibbs, DCNR c/o Doug Sheldon, 1115 Potter Hill Road PA Profiles Will Return In The Next Issue. (724) 437-7983 Thompson, PA 18465 Email: [email protected] http://scfloa.org • http://scfloa.wordpress.com (Fayette and Somerset Counties) Be sure to take advantage of your organization’s THE PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION WELCOMES MANUSCRIPT AND HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBMISSIONS FOR CONSIDERATION. THE Complimentary PFA Conservation Dinner Ticket in 2021! SUMMER 2020 ISSUE WILL FOCUS ON “THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF DCNR’S BUREAU OF FORESTRY.” THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 15 JUNE 2020. THE PFA EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE WELCOMES YOUR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS; SEND THEM TO [email protected]. 2 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org quarterly magazine of the pennsylvania forestry association Pennsylvania forests VOLUME 111 | NUMBER 1 SPRING 2020 (ISSN 0031-4501) Official publication of the Pennsylvania MISSION STATEMENT Forestry Association. Formerly known as The Pennsylvania Forestry Association is a broad-based citizen’s organization that provides leadership and Forest Leaves; first published in 1886. education in sound, science-based forest management; we promote stewardship to ensure the sustainability of Dedicated to environmental protection all forest resources, resulting in benefits for all, today and into the future. and wise natural resource use. Joining a local association dedicated to forest stewardship is an excellent way to become involved in sustaining Pennsylvania’s forest COVER PFA Education• and 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 Communications Committee 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 Carol Alerich, Nancy Baker, Renee’ Carey, boulders called Money Rocks, so-named because farmers in the Pequea Valley Andrew Duncan, Jim Finley, Linda Finley, 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, Mike Klimkos, John D. Laskowski, Marc Lewis, 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 Richard Lewis, and Matt Sampson. 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 PENNSYLVANIA FORESTS• is published quarterly— 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, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Subscription rate: magazine included in 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 annual membership dues. 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 nature lovers. The editor regrets any inadvertent• omission or extension.psu.edu/natural-resources/forests/private/woodland-owners-associations. acknowledgement of any copyrighted material and requests such omissions be called to her The cover photograph is by Nicholas A. Tonelli, taken in Money Rocks County Park, Caernarvon Township, attention for correction in future issues. 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 Anne Alexander, P.O. Box 2 com/people/nicholas_t/. Periodical postage paid at Harrisburg, Nelson, PA 16940 2301 N. Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17110 Email: [email protected] SPRING ARTICLES Postmaster: Send address changes to PFA, 300 N. Second Street, Suite 1002, Harrisburg, PA 17101. www.TCWOA.org Plan to Host a Walk in Penn’s Woods in 2020 ...... 7 2020 PFA Conservation Dinner ...... 8-9 • Tri-County Woodland Owners Association Request for Nominations: Sandy Cochran Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Education ...... 10 Printed by: c/o John Nissen, 845 Park Road, Elverson, PA Request for Nominations: PFA Mira Lloyd Dock Outstanding Woman Conservationist Award ...... 10 Art Communication Systems, Inc. 19520-9523 Request for Nominations: Joseph T. Rothrock Award ...... 11 1340 North 17th Street 610-582-9660 • Email: [email protected] Pennsylvania Foresty Association Memorial Forestry Education Fund ...... 12 Harrisburg, PA 17103 (Lancaster, Berks, and Chester Counties) Purple, A New Color in the Woods ...... 12 717.232.0144 PDA Adds 12 Counties to Pennsylvania’s Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine ...... 13 Westmoreland Woodlands Improvement Leave No Trace Earth Day Hiking ...... 33 • Association John Muir; America’s Naturalist ...... 34 Address correspondence to: 218 Donohoe Road, Greensburg, PA 15601 The Pennsylvania Forestry 724-837-5271 ext. 106 SPECIAL ARTICLES - EARTH DAY AT 50 Association www.westmorelandwoodlands.org Earth Day 50 and the PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry ...... 14-15 300 N. Second Street, Suite 1002 Origins of Earth Day ...... 16-17 Woodland Owners of Clarion-Allegheny Valley Harrisburg, PA 17101 1970 - The First Earth Day at PFA ...... 18-19 Phone: 1-800-835-8065 PO Box 194, Corsica, PA 15829 Earth Day 50 ...... 20-21 814-354-6206 • Email: [email protected] Oh, The Memories ...... 22 or 717-234-2500 http://www.thewocav.org Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire ...... 23 Email: [email protected] (Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Impact & Inspiration ...... 24-25 http://www.paforestry.org and Venango Counties) Planting Memories of Earth Day ...... 25 Earth Day at 50: Pennsylvania Milestones in Forestry ...... 26-28 PFA is a state• affiliate of the Clarion County Forest Stewardship Committee PA Earth Day 50 Events And Activities ...... 29 National Woodland Owners Association c/o Lee Swoger, 158 2nd Street Pennsylvania Forests: Looking at the Past to See Into the Future ...... 30-32 374 Maple Ave., E., Suite 310, Vienna, VA 22180 Clarion, PA 16214 814-226-1901 • Email: [email protected] REGULAR FEATURES Address all editorial• inquiries to: Forest Landowner Associations...... 2 Art Communication Systems, Inc. Woodland Owners of the Southern Alleghenies 1340 N. 17th Street, Harrisburg, PA 17103 PFA 2020 Officers and Board of Directors ...... 4 PO Box 253, Everett, PA 15537 717. 232.0144 • FAX 717.232.8823 Membership and Contributions ...... 4 717-485-3148 • http://www.thewosa.org [email protected] Timber Market Report ...... 4 (Bedford and Fulton Counties) Thank You ...... 4 President’s Message ...... 5 Upcoming Wood and Forest Landowner Activities ...... 6 Pennsylvania Forests 2020 Advertising Rates ...... 6 PFA E-mail List ...... 6 Membership Dues ...... 11 Connecting Kids to Nature ...... 35 PA Profiles Will Return In The Next Issue.

THE PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION WELCOMES MANUSCRIPT AND HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBMISSIONS FOR CONSIDERATION. THE https://www.facebook. Be sure to take advantage of your organization’s com/PAforestry Complimentary PFA Conservation Dinner Ticket in 2021! SUMMER 2020 ISSUE WILL FOCUS ON “THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF DCNR’S BUREAU OF FORESTRY.” THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 15 JUNE 2020. THE PFA EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE WELCOMES YOUR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS; SEND THEM TO [email protected]. Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 3 MEMBERSHIPS and CONTRIBUTIONS NEW MEMBERS CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS President’s Haleigh Aucoin – Harrisburg, PA Melvin Lewis – White Pine Lori Daniels – Stone Harbor, NJ Joe & Donna Petrone – White Pine Eric Desenberg – Red Lion, PA Bill Thomas – White Pine Daniel Dietrich – Kempton, PA Matthew Veltri – White Pine message Zachery Fisher – Mountaintop, PA Harold Wolfinger – White Pine 2020 OFFICERS AND Garrett Foltz – Enola, PA Brenda Beal – Oak BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary Gelenser – New Cumberland, PA Richard Lewis – Oak Nathan Hartley – Carlisle, PA John Miele – Oak Steven Hoover – Wellsboro, PA Joseph Newell – Oak The Annual PFA Conservation Dinner was a huge success Mark Ott, President with all tickets sold and a great variety of quality auction Anna Pauletta – Mechanicsburg, PA Andrew Reese – Oak Gary Gilmore, Vice President items donated. I started my “hunkering” the day after. As Robert Renz – Hanover, PA James Tritt – Oak an EMT, I have been trying to beat the Covid 19 curve to Gay Thistle, Secretary Georgia Townsend – Fayetteville, PA Randall White – Oak be available to respond when the call volume rises. Right Dave Alerich, Treasurer UNRESTRICTED CONTRIBUTIONS PFA ENDOWMENT FUND now, our call volume is unusually low in our rural section of Centre County. Please be sure your emergency is really an Karen High Mark Haughwout emergency before using 911 resources. DIRECTORS, Richard Kellogg Donald McCann TERMS EXPIRE 2020 Dwight Lewis Lumber We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day this year. I Nancy Baker, Michael Eckley, Marc Lewis was 12 years old when our first Earth Day occurred. Unlike Dave Jackson, Terry Meiser others who tell us of their experiences on the first Earth Day John D. Laskowski, Charles Merroth in this issue of Pennsylvania Forests, I have no memory Dave Trimpey, Scott Weikert, of that event. In subsequent years, however, I participated Randy White in many Earth Day activities, and the result was a raised awareness of my individual impact on both the planet and in DIRECTORS, THE PENNSYLVANIA my corner of the woods. I have participated in tree plantings, TERMS EXPIRE 2021 habitat improvements, trash dump clean-ups, recycling, Dave Twining, Matt Sampson FORESTRY ASSOCIATION switching from coal to wood heat, switching to LED lights, turning lights off, a constant eye on consumption, seeking DIRECTORS, WISHES TO THANK out and using local foods and products both at home and in TERMS EXPIRE 2022 my career as a Chef (well before it became the thing to do). Renee’ Carey, Ken Manno, Tom Albright, USDA Forest Service, All these and more have become a regular way of life. Most Mike Powell, Rachel Reyna, Ryan Reed and Jeff Woleslagle, DCNR Bureau of Forestry, now come automatically. Others require more thought and Julianne Schieffer, work. Jim Walizer Hope Sampson, Wellsboro High School, It heartens me to see Earth Day’s continuity and strength. IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Eric Minghella, Marketing Communications, Every year more preschool and kindergarten children are Richard Lewis And the PFA Members who Shared their Stories with Us, introduced to it, and older children have the basic principles of sustainability and care for our planet reinforced. Adults PA FOREST LANDOWNER FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THIS ISSUE OF participating in these events continue to grow their ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVE PENNSYLVANIA FORESTS. ecological mindset. I believe members of the Pennsylvania TO THE BOARD, Forestry Association (PFA) are inherently aware of and TERM EXPIRES 2020 care about the health of our planet. Landowners/woodland Linda Finley owners and Tree Farmers, foresters, loggers, sawyers, the lumber industry, ecologists, biologists, arborists, farmers, STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE #FORESTPROUD #resourcefirst hunters, professors and students, writers and artists, and Zack Sparks many others - all are represented in our membership. CHECK OUT THE MOST UP-TO-DATE PENN STATE TIMBER MARKET REPORT All take on some part of espousing the benefits of our AT https://extension.psu.edu/forests-and-wildlife/forestry-business-and- Pennsylvania Forests. We work constantly to enlighten the economics/timber-market-report public on the threats to our forests and the work we all do to You’ll also find commentary, explanations, log rule conversions, the Timber train, inform, guide and promote all things forest related. Market Archives and 10 year price trends at this website.

4 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org MEMBERSHIPS and CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS President’s Melvin Lewis – White Pine Joe & Donna Petrone – White Pine Bill Thomas – White Pine Matthew Veltri – White Pine message Harold Wolfinger – White Pine Brenda Beal – Oak Richard Lewis – Oak John Miele – Oak Joseph Newell – Oak The Annual PFA Conservation Dinner was a huge success Andrew Reese – Oak with all tickets sold and a great variety of quality auction James Tritt – Oak items donated. I started my “hunkering” the day after. As an EMT, I have been trying to beat the Covid 19 curve to Randall White – Oak be available to respond when the call volume rises. Right PFA ENDOWMENT FUND now, our call volume is unusually low in our rural section of Mark Haughwout Centre County. Please be sure your emergency is really an Donald McCann emergency before using 911 resources.

We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day this year. I was 12 years old when our first Earth Day occurred. Unlike others who tell us of their experiences on the first Earth Day in this issue of Pennsylvania Forests, I have no memory of that event. In subsequent years, however, I participated The PFA has partnered with the PA Earth Day 50 Coalition in many Earth Day activities, and the result was a raised to celebrate the Year of the Tree, Earth Day and 50 years of awareness of my individual impact on both the planet and in increasing environmental awareness. Many activities were my corner of the woods. I have participated in tree plantings, being planned by DCNR, DEP, PA Parks & Forests Foundation habitat improvements, trash dump clean-ups, recycling, and PFA. We have purchased thousands of pollinator switching from coal to wood heat, switching to LED lights, friendly native flower seed packets to distribute at PFA turning lights off, a constant eye on consumption, seeking events and have offered to obtain them for other entities to out and using local foods and products both at home and in distribute at their events. The PFA was to be directly involved my career as a Chef (well before it became the thing to do). in three events, all either already cancelled or likely to be. All these and more have become a regular way of life. Most We were looking forward to an Earth Day Celebration at the now come automatically. Others require more thought and Governor’s Mansion in Harrisburg with hundreds of students work. from a host of schools. Our PFA Forest Heritage Committee was coordinating a Penn’s Woods: Cradle of Conservation It heartens me to see Earth Day’s continuity and strength. Documentary showing. Our annual Tree Planting Ramble in Every year more preschool and kindergarten children are Sproul State Forest on April 25th was to be our tree planting introduced to it, and older children have the basic principles celebration for the Year of the Tree- Earth Day Celebration. of sustainability and care for our planet reinforced. Adults As you may not now be able to partake of any of the many participating in these events continue to grow their exciting Earth Day activities that were being planned, at ecological mindset. I believe members of the Pennsylvania least go out and plant a tree on April 22. Better yet, plant a Forestry Association (PFA) are inherently aware of and hundred. Have a happy and productive Earth Day and be care about the health of our planet. Landowners/woodland safe. owners and Tree Farmers, foresters, loggers, sawyers, the lumber industry, ecologists, biologists, arborists, farmers, #FORESTPROUD #resourcefirst hunters, professors and students, writers and artists, and Mark many others - all are represented in our membership. CHECK OUT THE MOST UP-TO-DATE PENN STATE TIMBER MARKET REPORT Mark Ott All take on some part of espousing the benefits of our AT https://extension.psu.edu/forests-and-wildlife/forestry-business-and- Pennsylvania Forests. We work constantly to enlighten the PFA President economics/timber-market-report public on the threats to our forests and the work we all do to [email protected] You’ll also find commentary, explanations, log rule conversions, the Timber train, inform, guide and promote all things forest related. #FORESTPROUD #RESOURCE FIRST Market Archives and 10 year price trends at this website.

Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 5 UPCOMING WOOD AND FOREST LANDOWNER ACTIVITIES PLAN TO HOST A WALK IN PENN’S WOODS IN 2020! What’s “The Walk in Penn’s Woods?” The Walk in Penn’s Woods is a day for people across Pennsylvania to visit and learn about Woodland Owner Events: For information on a Forest/Woodland Owner group near you, check the inside front the forests that enhance our well-being. cover of this magazine. Most groups schedule year round programs and events; they will welcome your interest. A Forests are always working for us, providing statewide events calendar can be found at: http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/centers/private-forests/events recreation, wildlife habitat, beauty, improved water quality, clean air, wood products, carbon storage and more.

Attention Forest/Woodland Owners: Insurance The Walk in Penn’s Woods, a statewide coordinated event on the First Sunday in The National Woodland Owners Association has made it possible for forest/woodland owners to obtain October, Oct 4th in 2020. The Walk in Penn’s affordable Woodland/Timberland Liability, and/or Hunt Lease Liability Insurance. Woods strives to encourage people to learn how their local woods work, see forests in Contact [email protected] or 703-255-2700 for details. new ways, and appreciate and love the forest so that we can all care for it. For the past The Pennsylvania Forestry Association is three years, we’ve had participation from a state affiliate member of NWOA. nigh on a thousand commonwealth citizens who rave about the experience, rain or shine! With a goal of getting people in every county across the state out in the woods, we need many landowners, partners in state and municipal parks and forests, forest industry, land trusts, trail groups, and others to provide accessible walks to get the public out into Penn’s Woods. Pennsylvania Forests 2020 Advertising Rates

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Could we have your attention? PFA would love to add you to our e-mail list so you’ll get our latest updates on forest management, reforestation, timber harvesting, forest tax, recreation, hunting and other important, timely and interesting forest issues, not to mention up-to- The Independence Conservancy hosted a 2019 Walk in Penn’s Woods at Beaver County’s newest park, Rocky Bend Nature Preserve in the minute info about interesting events. Please call 1-800-835-8065 or email [email protected] and we will add you Potter Township. Members of the Conservancy led eighteen people on a one-mile hike to explore the scenic Raccoon Creek Greenway with to our email list to receive future electronic issues of the monthly PFA “News You Can Use” e-newsletter. That helps your timeline and our its rocky cliffs, wooded hillsides and quiet shorelines. Scientists and naturalists walked with the group to answer questions about geology, bottom line! streams, wetlands, fisheries biology and local history. And know that it is always the policy of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association to keep membership information strictly confidential. Rocky Bend Nature Preserve is a public-private partnership between Potter Township municipal government and Independence Conservancy. 6 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org UPCOMING WOOD AND FOREST LANDOWNER ACTIVITIES PLAN TO HOST A WALK IN PENN’S WOODS IN 2020! What’s “The Walk in Penn’s Woods?” Why host? Worried it will be too much work? Trained The Walk in Penn’s Woods is a day for people As someone who cares about Penn’s Woods, volunteers are willing to help you. across Pennsylvania to visit and learn about you are our best advocate to others to share Don’t know how? We will share resources Woodland Owner Events: For information on a Forest/Woodland Owner group near you, check the inside front the forests that enhance our well-being. that care! that walk you through the nuts and bolts of a cover of this magazine. Most groups schedule year round programs and events; they will welcome your interest. A Forests are always working for us, providing You can host one of the Walks in Penn’s successful woods walk. statewide events calendar can be found at: http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/centers/private-forests/events recreation, wildlife habitat, beauty, improved Woods! “WHO ME?” you say? YES, YOU! Worried you don’t know enough? Natural water quality, clean air, wood products, Because: resource professionals across the state have carbon storage and more. • You’re an expert in your woods. You love it, expertise to share. A partnered event eases everyone’s burden. Attention Forest/Woodland Owners: Insurance The Walk in Penn’s Woods, a statewide you own it, you are taking care of it – and coordinated event on the First Sunday in careful tending is a story that people want Worried about cost? Mini-grants help The National Woodland Owners Association has made it possible for forest/woodland owners to obtain October, Oct 4th in 2020. The Walk in Penn’s to hear. offset costs, from renting a port-a-potty to affordable Woodland/Timberland Liability, and/or Hunt Lease Liability Insurance. Woods strives to encourage people to learn • You manage or study or teach about providing cookies. how their local woods work, see forests in woodlands and want to share your expert Is liability a concern? New legislation in PA Contact [email protected] or 703-255-2700 for details. new ways, and appreciate and love the forest perspective with others. protects landowners from liability when land so that we can all care for it. For the past • You proudly work with a sustainable is opened to recreational and educational The Pennsylvania Forestry Association is three years, we’ve had participation from product from Penn’s Woods. opportunities. One-day insurance riders also provide ease of mind. a state affiliate member of NWOA. nigh on a thousand commonwealth citizens • You want to connect youth to the woods who rave about the experience, rain or shine! and the outdoors. With a goal of getting people in every • Your passion and enthusiasm for our county across the state out in the woods, woods make you an outstanding advocate we need many landowners, partners in for Penn’s Woods to the commonwealth’s state and municipal parks and forests, citizens. forest industry, land trusts, trail groups, We want little walks as well as big ones! and others to provide accessible walks to Think you don’t have time? Walk timing and We can help! get the public out into Penn’s Woods. length is very flexible. 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The Independence Conservancy hosted a 2019 Walk in Penn’s Woods at Beaver County’s newest park, Rocky Bend Nature Preserve in Potter Township. Members of the Conservancy led eighteen people on a one-mile hike to explore the scenic Raccoon Creek Greenway with its rocky cliffs, wooded hillsides and quiet shorelines. Scientists and naturalists walked with the group to answer questions about geology, streams, wetlands, fisheries biology and local history. Rocky Bend Nature Preserve is a public-private partnership between Potter Township municipal government and Independence Conservancy. Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 7 2020 PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 2020 PFA Conservation Dinner winners $10,000 Draw-Down 1st $10,000 Kathy Cummings, Tioga, PA CONSERVATION DINNER 2nd $1,000 Dennis Bisking, Halifax, PA 3rd $500 GENETTI HOTEL, WILLIAMSPORT, PA • MARCH 7, 2020 Alice Knetz and Joseph Cecil, Harrisburg, PA 4th $300 The Center for Private Forests at Penn State, University Park, PA 5th $200 Mary C. Leitzel, Harrisburg, PA 6th $100 + 2021 ticket Carsonville Hotel Group Ticket #5 7th $100 + 2021 ticket Franklin Fisher, Pottsville, PA 8th $100 + 2021 ticket Eloise Laskowski, Halifax, PA

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The Little Engine that Could... brings in Art Communications Systems, Inc. www.artcomsys.com a Lot of $$$ Every Single Ticket Sold! DoomBox www.doomboxtraps.com European Skull Hanger www.wallhangersskullhanger.com The Genetti Hotel, General Manager Miranda Kujawa www.genettihotel.com Lancaster Area Woodturners www.lancasterareawoodturners.org Lewis Lumbar Products www.lewislp.com Mangine Sawing www.facebook.com/MangineSawing/ PJ Mangine, Torre Mangine Mid Penn Bank www.midpennbank.com The Forestland Group www.forestlandgroup.com The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art www.nedsmithcenter.org Razz Hickory Syrup www.razzshickorysyrup.com Sheehan Land Surveying [email protected] www.psls.org/Sys/PublicProfile/7810657/1565301 South Central Pennsylvania Woodturners www.pawoodturners.com Stump Auctions, Raymond Stump & Suzanne Bachrach www.auctionzip.com/PA-Autioneers/3982html Susquehanna Woodturners www.susquehannawoodturners.org Tioga County Woodland Owner’s Association www.TCWOA.org The World’s Strongest Coat hanger www.theworldsstrongestcoathanger.com The Pennsylvania Forestry Association President and Event Chair Mark Ott, Officers, Board of Directors, and Versant Strategies sincerely thank everyone Beautiful Wood plus Skillful CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? KATHY for their contributions and support. We appreciate those who donate items to the auctions, sell and buy tickets, and the volunteers who spend a long day making sure all is ready and running smoothly. If we have missed your name on our list, we apologize; please call the PFA office and let us know so that we Workmanship: Michael D. Freitag of CUMMINGS has WON THE BIG Ephrata; R.I.P May 14, 1947 – March may acknowledge you. $10,000 TWICE IN A ROW! 8th, 2020; for many years a generous The Conservation Dinner is our largest annual fundraiser and the profits help to finance PFA’s Forest Conservation Mission. The support for this event is Lots of hugs, congratulations and donor of bowls, vessels, and fine scroll fantastic; we sold all the tickets this year. We could not do it without you! More than $40,000 gross was raised to support the work of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association on this single night! Woods Juices! work to support PFA fundraisers. laughter, shared here with PFA’s Roy Seifert. We look forward to seeing you next year! Mark your calendar: March 6, 2021, and get your tickets early as we plan to sell out annually! 8 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 2020 PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 2020 PFA Conservation Dinner winners $10,000 Draw-Down 9th $100 + 2021 ticket 1st $10,000 Thomas McMahon, Montoursville, PA Kathy Cummings, Tioga, PA 10th $100 + 2021 ticket CONSERVATION DINNER 2nd $1,000 Dean May, Greencastle, PA Dennis Bisking, Halifax, PA First Ticket Drawn 3rd $500 Jerry Bowman GENETTI HOTEL, WILLIAMSPORT, PA • MARCH 7, 2020 Alice Knetz and Joseph Cecil, Harrisburg, PA The Chain Saw Raffle 4th $300 Chain Saw Winner The Center for Private Forests at Nick Pergosky Penn State, University Park, PA 2nd Prize ($100) 5th $200 Jerry Bowman Mary C. Leitzel, Harrisburg, PA 3rd Prize ($50) 6th $100 + 2021 ticket Lisa Habel Carsonville Hotel Group Ticket #5 The Mystery Gift Winner 7th $100 + 2021 ticket Tim Drawbaugh Franklin Fisher, Pottsville, PA 50/50 Winner The 2019 Winner! Kathy Cummings 8th $100 + 2021 ticket Antoinette Fisher with then PFA Vice President, now PFA Eloise Laskowski, Halifax, PA Art Wolff Chickadee on Lilac Sculpture Ted Ligaeaza President Mark Ott 2020 Donations, Sponsors, Volunteers Dave Alerich Sean Freidof Tim Ladner Beverly Myers Ross Shourds Anne Alexander Mike Freitag John D. Laskowski Paul Noll Roy Siefert Nancy Baker Robert Gochnauer Marc & Diane Lewis Bernie Okuniewski Maureen Socha Renee’ Carey Marc Goldberg Mel Lewis Jeff Osborne Zack Sparks Carsonsville Tree Farms Dr. Mark Haskins Richard & Jakie Lewis Krystaleigh Ott Cecile Stelter Marwin & Kathryn Paul Heasley Byron Light Mark & Olivia Ott Martin Stolpe Cummings Tim Holtz Max Lowrie Joe & Donna Petrone Jeff Stuffle Dewees Family John Hoover Lowrie Tree Farm R & W Pope Mike & Glenda Thomas Drawbaugh Farm Randy & Diane Hoffer Ken & Sharon Manno Mike & Celesta Powell Carl Urbanski Andrew Duncan Gerald Hoy Blaine May - J & J Rachel Reyna Van Wagner Tim Eck Les Johnson Estate Greenhouse Darrel & Elaine Reibson Jim Walizer Mike Eckley Ed Kadel Mike & Suzy Messina Matt Sampson Don Wilson Jim & Linda Finley Scott Keeler Donald McCann Julianne Schieffer Randy White Troy Firth George Kirik Steven Miller Joe Serratore

Art Communications Systems, Inc. www.artcomsys.com DoomBox www.doomboxtraps.com European Skull Hanger www.wallhangersskullhanger.com The Genetti Hotel, General Manager Miranda Kujawa www.genettihotel.com Lancaster Area Woodturners www.lancasterareawoodturners.org Lewis Lumbar Products www.lewislp.com Mangine Sawing www.facebook.com/MangineSawing/ PJ Mangine, Torre Mangine Mid Penn Bank www.midpennbank.com The Forestland Group www.forestlandgroup.com The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art www.nedsmithcenter.org Razz Hickory Syrup www.razzshickorysyrup.com Sheehan Land Surveying [email protected] www.psls.org/Sys/PublicProfile/7810657/1565301 South Central Pennsylvania Woodturners www.pawoodturners.com Stump Auctions, Raymond Stump & Suzanne Bachrach www.auctionzip.com/PA-Autioneers/3982html Susquehanna Woodturners www.susquehannawoodturners.org She just knows, doesn’t she! The 2020 Tioga County Woodland Owner’s Association www.TCWOA.org Winner! Again! Kathy Cummings! The World’s Strongest Coat hanger www.theworldsstrongestcoathanger.com The Pennsylvania Forestry Association President and Event Chair Mark Ott, Officers, Board of Directors, and Versant Strategies sincerely thank everyone CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? KATHY for their contributions and support. We appreciate those who donate items to the auctions, sell and buy tickets, and the volunteers who spend a long day making sure all is ready and running smoothly. If we have missed your name on our list, we apologize; please call the PFA office and let us know so that we CUMMINGS has WON THE BIG may acknowledge you.

$10,000 TWICE IN A ROW! The Conservation Dinner is our largest annual fundraiser and the profits help to finance PFA’s Forest Conservation Mission. The support for this event is Lots of hugs, congratulations and fantastic; we sold all the tickets this year. We could not do it without you! More than $40,000 gross was raised to support the work of the Pennsylvania laughter, shared here with PFA’s Roy Forestry Association on this single night! Seifert. We look forward to seeing you next year! Mark your calendar: March 6, 2021, and get your tickets early as we plan to sell out annually! Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 9 REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS

Request for Nominations: Request for Nominations: Sandy Cochran Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Education Joseph T. Rothrock Award The Pennsylvania Forestry Association is seeking nominations for the 2020 Sandy Cochran Each year at its annual meeting, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association (PFA) recognizes an individual, Award for Excellence in Natural Resources Education. This award honors individuals or organization or group’s significant contributions to the public recognition of the importance of programs designing, developing, and implementing educational programs focused on the Pennsylvania’s forest resources in the same tradition and spirit of Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock. Dr. Rothrock conservation and management of Pennsylvania’s natural resources. Nominations are by served as the first president of PFA and earned the title, “Father of Forestry in Pennsylvania,” through his letter of support and include background information on the nominee, such as would be untiring efforts to promote the forest conservation movement in Pennsylvania. included in a vita. As well, the nominator should provide information on program focus (e.g., NOMINEES FOR THE AWARD WILL BE EVALUATED ACCORDING TO THREE SELECTION CRITERIA water, forests, recreation, wildlife), principle audiences affected (e.g., adults, students, youth 1. Value of contributions to the continued conservation of Pennsylvania’s forest resource. (60%) programs, resource professionals), geographic area targeted (e.g., statewide, region, county, school district), and, if possible, behavior or impact changes linked to the program. Each 2. Public recognition and stature of the individual in the field of resource conservation. (30%) nomination must also include three letters of support for the nominee. Deadline for application 3. Other Unique or special considerations which demonstrate a long term commitment to conservation. is September 1, 2020. (10%) For more information or to submit a nomination, contact the Pennsylvania Forestry Nominations for the award should address these three criteria in appropriate detail. Association, Attention: Cochran Award Chairman, 300 North Second Street, Suite 1002, Nominations are welcome from any interested individual or group. The deadline for nominations is Harrisburg, PA 17101 or email: [email protected]. September 1, 2020. Membership in the PFA is not a requirement for the nominee or those submitting a nomination. For more information or to submit a nomination, contact the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Attention: Rothrock Award Chairman, 300 North Second Street, Suite1002, Harrisburg, PA 17101 or email: [email protected].

Request for Nominations: The deadline for nominations is September 1, 2020. Nominations are welcome from any interested individual or group. Membership The Pennsylvania Forestry Association’s in the PFA is not a requirement for the nominee or those submitting Mira Lloyd Dock Outstanding Woman a nomination. For more information or to submit a nomination, Conservationist Award contact the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Attention: PFA Awards Committee, 300 North Second Street, Suite 1002, Harrisburg, PA #Honor Character Respect 17101 or email: [email protected]. Celebrating the value of the contributions of women to Pennsylvania’s natural resources, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association is pleased to announce the Mira Lloyd Dock Award. Mira Lloyd Dock is recognized as the first Pennsylvania woman to lead the way in forest conservation. In order to honor her outstanding contributions to the foundation of forest conservation in the Commonwealth, her skills as an advocate for Penn’s Woods, and her diligence as a “Friend of the Forest,” it is only appropriate that PFA names this award for her. Ms. Dock’s character and motivation set the example for future women of conservation, who PFA wishes to recognize for their professional and/ or personal commitment with this award. Award Criteria Nominations shall be made in the form of a letter, not more than two typed pages long, with content based on the following criteria: 1. Forest Conservation Activities 2. Effective Outreach 3. Engagement with others/building collaborative relationships 4. Commitment to learning/resource-based knowledge 5. Additional Recognition related to Natural Resource Conservation The award will be announced at the Pennsylvania Forestry Association Mira Lloyd Dock (1853-1945), botanist, educator, author, civic Annual Symposium. leader, conservationist, activist. 10 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS

The deadline for nominations is September 1, 2020. Nominations The Pennsylvania Forestry Association, the nation’s oldest statewide, are welcome from any interested individual or group. Membership in the PFA is not a requirement for the nominee or those submitting grass-roots forestry organization, hopes you will join us in encouraging a nomination. For more information or to submit a nomination, contact the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Attention: PFA Awards sustainable management of Penn’s Woods! Committee, 300 North Second Street, Suite 1002, Harrisburg, PA 17101 or email: [email protected].

Join The PFA at www.paforestry.org, Call 1-800-835-8065 Please consider a more substantial contribution to or write: The PFA, 300 N. Second Street, Suite 1002, PFA in support of our important mission to conserve Harrisburg, PA 17101 Pennsylvania’s forests.

Categories: Contributing Member Categories: Individual $30.00 Oak $50 - $99 Family $30.00 White Pine $100 - $499 Student $15.00 American Chestnut $500 - $999 (10% will be donated to School or Library $15.00 - we encourage you to sponsor the American Chestnut Foundation) a school or library of your choice. Black Cherry $1,000 and above Life Individual $1,000.00 - PFA will bill you quarterly if desired.

Mira Lloyd Dock (1853-1945), botanist, educator, author, civic PFA is a 501c(3) organization. Please check with your tax consultant for advice on tax deductions for non-profit organizations. leader, conservationist, activist. Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 11 PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Adds MEMORIAL FORESTRY EDUCATION FUND 12 Counties to Pennsylvania’s Beginning in 2014, the Pennsylvania Forestry and the NWOA, the Pennsylvania Forestry Forest Landowners Association guided and administered the Association merged the Casey Fund and the Conference (led by Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Lloyd Casey Memorial Fund, honoring Casey, Rumpf donation into a new PFA Memorial the Center for Private Forests at Penn State). a PFA Past President who was a dedicated Forestry Education Fund. We especially invite our members and Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding has forestry educator. The fund supported The overall aim of the new fund reflects that friends to donate to the PFA Memorial announced that twelve new counties have grant requests for forestry education of the original funds, but, as we expected, Forestry Education Fund; PLEASE HELP US been added to Pennsylvania’s spotted workshops and projects that reflected the new memorial fund significantly HELP THE OWNERS OF PENN’S WOODS lanternfly quarantine zone ahead of the Casey’s commitment to educating forest expands opportunities for forest education TAKE CARE OF OUR FUTURE FOREST! landowners. The Casey Fund received many workshops and projects in Pennsylvania. 2020 spring hatch. With this addition, the donations from within the PFA organization, Over recent years the fund has provided quarantine for this invasive pest is now at 26 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT DONATING from Casey family, colleagues and friends, sizable grants to non-profit organizations counties. OR TO REQUEST SUPPORT FOR and from two partners: the Allegheny and partnerships such as the Alliance for “The spotted lanternfly is more than a pest in A PROJECT, please contact the Society of American Foresters (SAF) and the Chesapeake Bay (which conducted three Pennsylvania Forestry Association the literal sense,” said Agriculture Secretary the National Woodland Owners Association regional landowner workshops on the Woods c/o Caleb Wright, Chief Operating Redding. “It’s wreaking havoc for home and (NWOA). in Your Backyard), the Western Pennsylvania Officer at Versant Strategies, 300 N business owners, kids who just want to In 2017, the PFA received a very generous Conservancy (which provided in-depth Second Street, Suite 1002, Harrisburg play outside, Pennsylvania agriculture, and unrestricted donation from the estate Conservation Easement workshops), the PA 17101 Cell: 717.319.4638 the economy of the state we all call home. of PFA Past President Bob Rumpf. With Walk in Penn’s Woods Partnership, multiple Office: 717.635.2320 wrightc@ Whether you think it’s your job or not, we support from the Casey family heirs, the Penn State Forestry Student Clubs and versantstrategies.net need every Pennsylvanian to keep their eyes Rumpf family heirs, The Allegheny SAF Organizations, and the PA Biennial Statewide PURPLE, A New Color in the Woods Landowners who post their properties now Now that the “purple paint law” is effective, game-law violations – have the option of using purple paint rather loggers should know they might encounter and additional penalties than posted signs to alert others that lands purple markings on trees and that these – also might apply. are private and trespassing isn’t permitted. marks are meant to define the boundary of an adjoining private property that’s posted House Bill 1772, which was signed into law Chuck Coup is Program Manager, PA SFI against trespassing. by Gov. Tom Wolf in November, and took Implementation Committee PA SFI®; effect at the end of January. Under the law, In Pennsylvania, defiant trespass is a third- you can reach PASFI at 211 Barrington a person is considered a “defiant trespasser” degree misdemeanor punishable by up Lane • Bellefonte, PA 16823 TOLL FREE: – which carries enhanced penalties – if he to a year in jail and $2,500 in fines. And if 888.734.9366 • Phone: 814.355.1010 or she enters or remains in any place where trespassing occurs while hunting, additional • Fax: 814.355.1022 • EMAIL pasfi@ notice against trespassing is given by actual sfiofpa.org communication, lawful posting or fencing.

House Bill 1772 makes the use of purple paint on trees or posts a lawful posting method in all but Allegheny and Philadelphia counties. Vertical purple lines must be at least 8 inches long and 1 inch wide. The bottom of the mark must not be less than 3 feet or more than 5 feet from the ground. And painted marks must not be more than 100 feet apart. A specific type of paint was not specified in the bill, other than that it must be purple and meet the size, distance and visibility requirements listed therein. Purple boundary paint is readily available for purchase from retailers since a dozen other states have already adopted similar laws in recent years. 12 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Adds MEMORIAL FORESTRY EDUCATION FUND 12 Counties to Pennsylvania’s Forest Landowners Conference (led by Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine the Center for Private Forests at Penn State). We especially invite our members and Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding has peeled for signs of this bad bug – to scrape “Most of these municipalities have already friends to donate to the PFA Memorial announced that twelve new counties have every egg mass, squash every bug, and been aggressively treated,” said Dr. Ruth Forestry Education Fund; PLEASE HELP US been added to Pennsylvania’s spotted report every sighting. We need to unite over Welliver, director of the Bureau of Plant HELP THE OWNERS OF PENN’S WOODS lanternfly quarantine zone ahead of the our hatred for this pest for our common love: Industry. “With continued aggressive TAKE CARE OF OUR FUTURE FOREST! 2020 spring hatch. With this addition, the Pennsylvania.” treatment and monitoring, and an actively quarantine for this invasive pest is now at 26 The new dozen counties are not completely engaged community, we can strike spotted FOR INFORMATION ABOUT DONATING counties. infested, but rather have a few municipalities lanternfly from these counties.” OR TO REQUEST SUPPORT FOR “The spotted lanternfly is more than a pest in with a known infestation; a quarantine has Quick, aggressive treatment to newly A PROJECT, please contact the Pennsylvania Forestry Association the literal sense,” said Agriculture Secretary been placed on the entire county out of an identified populations of spotted lanternfly c/o Caleb Wright, Chief Operating Redding. “It’s wreaking havoc for home and abundance of caution. Allegheny, Beaver, in Pennsylvania was funded through the Officer at Versant Strategies, 300 N business owners, kids who just want to Blair, Columbia, Cumberland, Huntingdon, Rapid Response Disaster Readiness line of Second Street, Suite 1002, Harrisburg play outside, Pennsylvania agriculture, and Juniata, Luzerne, Mifflin, Northumberland, Governor Wolf’s 2019 PA Farm Bill. The 2020 PA 17101 Cell: 717.319.4638 the economy of the state we all call home. Perry, and York have been added to the PA Farm Bill proposes another $3 million to Office: 717.635.2320 wrightc@ Whether you think it’s your job or not, we quarantine for 2020. combat spotted lanternfly, plus an extra $1 versantstrategies.net need every Pennsylvanian to keep their eyes million that is uncommitted to readily act in the event of the next agricultural disaster. Businesses that operate in or travel through quarantined counties are required to obtain a Spotted Lanternfly Permit; fines associated with noncompliance can be up to $300 for a criminal citation or up to $20,000 for a civil game-law violations – penalty. Homeowners with questions about and additional penalties treatment are encouraged to contact their – also might apply. local Penn State Extension office or learn about management, including approved Chuck Coup is Program Manager, PA SFI sprays online. Implementation Committee PA SFI®; Pennsylvanians who live inside the you can reach PASFI at 211 Barrington Lane • Bellefonte, PA 16823 TOLL FREE: quarantine zone should also review and sign 888.734.9366 • Phone: 814.355.1010 the Compliance Checklist for residents. • Fax: 814.355.1022 • EMAIL pasfi@ For more information on spotted lanternfly, sfiofpa.org visit agriculture.pa.gov/spottedlanternfly.

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The Bureau of Forestry’s commitment to sustainable management of this precious resource is a testament to Earth Day 50 and the Earth Day’s most important premise- to protect our natural resources for future generations. We hope that you, on this PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry 50th anniversary of Earth Day, consider lending your hands and voices in support By Ryan Reed and Jeff Woleslagle of this critical cause. Bureau of Forestry Communications Section It has been said that every day should be Earth Day, and those of us in the Bureau of Forestry agree! This April we will celebrate the fiftieth Sadly, even when considering these From its earliest days, folks in the anniversary of one of the most environmental success stories, forestry profession have been looking successful environmental movements environmental problems persist. Just at landscapes and envisioning a better Jeff Woleslagle is the Communications ever. The first Earth Day was held on like in the early to mid-1900s, our future. When Joseph Rothrock and Mira Section Chief and Ryan Reed is the April 22, 1970, and came at a time conservation issues are many. They’ve Lloyd Dock started to acquire state forest Natural Resource Program Specialist for when concern for the natural world just slightly changed. While our waters lands, they did it with an eye to the distant the Communication Section, Bureau of was rising rapidly. Air and water quality may be cleaner than 50 years ago, major future. They wanted to leave something Forestry, PA Department of Conservation were especially at the forefront in the issues abound. Eutrophication due to better than the denuded lands that were and Natural Resources. You can reach Jeff conversation. Earth Day’s purpose nutrient loads in streams causes massive often ravaged by uncontrolled fire and at 717.425.5366 or [email protected]; was and still is to raise awareness dead zones in some of our most vibrant the silted streams that were so common Ryan is at 717.787.2853 or [email protected] about pollution and environmental fisheries, and development still causes across the state. degradation and to focus on ways erosion and sedimentation, choking we can improve. Earth Day effectively aquatic nurseries. Acid mine drainage Our Forestry Forbearers thought that forced environmental protection onto the still pollutes hundreds of Pa. waterways. restoration of the forest could heal the national public agenda, a development A seemingly never-ending list of synthetic land. To this day, we contend that forests for which we should all give thanks. By chemicals is detectable even in remote and trees are the tool that can and the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day watersheds. should be used to overcome many of our in 1990, the movement had gone global environmental problems. with over 200-million people participating The same can be said for our air. Even in 141 countries. though we have virtually eliminated When we look at ways that trees and airborne lead, particulate loads (which forests improve the environment, it is Much of the fervor that led to the first cause a host of vascular problems) no wonder that planting trees is often Earth Day stood as a sharp, public still exceed state and federal standards part of Earth Day celebrations. Their link rebuke of the environmental status in many areas. Ground level ozone to clean water is undeniable. Regarding quo. The word was out, and US citizens (from volatile organic compounds and Climate Change, trees help remove showed they would no longer tolerate nitrogen oxide emissions) continues to carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and rivers that caught fire, mass air pollution nearly suffocate the young and old. The growing new forests has the potential deaths, toxic waste sites, or animals proverbial “elephant in the room”, is the to mitigate much of this issue. This, poisoned by pesticides. The movement enormous output and accumulation among other reasons, is why the DCNR resulted in sweeping legislative changes, of greenhouse gases due to the use of Bureau of Forestry facilitates the planting including the Clean Air, Clean Water, and fossil fuels, calamitously altering earth’s of thousands of acres every year, while Endangered Species acts, in relatively climatic norms. We have only just begun acquiring and protecting thousands short succession. to feel these effects. more.

Earth Day and the related environmental These present-day issues are sobering, Forests also provide important habitat progress of that era was a resounding but not very different than what citizens to a wide range of species of flora and success, restoring air and water quality faced before the first Earth Day. Their fauna, safeguarding our biodiversity. The while protecting and rehabilitating remediation requires a unified citizenry benefits of the clean, fresh air that forests species in peril. The movement also with a loud and clear voice, and vision for provide and the abundant, healthful provided momentum, technology, and a better environmental tomorrow. outdoor recreational opportunities within public support for overcoming future these lands can’t be overstated. environmental problems. 14 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

Our Forestry Forbearers thought that restoration of the forest could heal the land. To this day, we contend that forests and trees are the tool that can and should be used to overcome many of our environmental problems.

When we look at ways that trees and forests improve the environment, it is no wonder that planting trees is often part of Earth Day celebrations. Their link to clean water is undeniable. Regarding Climate Change, trees help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and growing new forests has the potential to mitigate much of this issue. This, among other reasons, is why the DCNR Bureau of Forestry facilitates the planting of thousands of acres every year, while acquiring and protecting thousands more.

Forests also provide important habitat to a wide range of species of flora and fauna, safeguarding our biodiversity. The benefits of the clean, fresh air that forests provide and the abundant, healthful outdoor recreational opportunities within these lands can’t be overstated.

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April 22, falling between Spring Break and ORIGINS OF EARTH DAY Final Exams, was selected as the date. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans Compiled by Linda Finley — at the time, 10% of the total population of the United States — took to the streets, parks and auditoriums to Earth Day 1970 gave a voice to an and how a polluted environment THE IDEA FOR THE FIRST EARTH DAY demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable emerging public consciousness threatens human health. Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, environment in coast-to-coast rallies. about the state of our planet. Every then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, It was, and still is, the largest political year on April 22, Earth Day marks the The state was set for change, however, came up with the idea for a national demonstration in American history. anniversary of the birth of the modern with the publication of Rachel Carson’s day to focus on the environment Thousands of colleges and universities environmental movement. New York Times bestseller Silent after he witnessed the ravages of a organized protests against the Spring in 1962. The book represented a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, deterioration of the environment. In the decades leading up to the first watershed moment, selling more than California, in 1969. Inspired by the Earth Day, Americans were consuming 500,000 copies in 24 countries as it student anti-war movement, Senator vast amounts of leaded gas through raised public awareness and concern Nelson realized that if he could infuse Groups that had been fighting massive and inefficient automobiles. for living organisms, the environment the energy of anti-war protests with an individually against oil spills, polluting Industry belched out smoke and and the inextricable links between emerging public consciousness about factories and power plants, raw sludge with little fear of consequences pollution and public health. air and water pollution, it would force sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, from either the law or the press. Air environmental protection onto the freeways, the loss of wilderness and pollution was commonly accepted as Earth Day 1970 would come to provide national political agenda. the extinction of wildlife united on the smell of prosperity. Until this point, Earth Day around shared common a voice to this emerging environmental Senator Nelson announced the mainstream America remained largely values. Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare consciousness, channeling the energy idea for a “national teach-in on the oblivious to environmental concerns political alignment, enlisting support of the anti-war protest movement to environment” to the national media. from Republicans and Democrats, rich put environmental concerns He then persuaded Pete McCloskey, and poor, urban dwellers and farmers, on the front page. a conservation-minded Republican business and labor leaders. By the Congressman, to serve as his co-chair end of 1970, the first Earth Day had and recruited a 25-year-old named led to the creation of the United States Denis Hayes from Harvard as national Environmental Protection Agency and coordinator. Hayes built a national staff passage of the initial Clean Air, Clean of 85 to promote events across the Water and Endangered Species Acts. land.

“It was a gamble,” Senator Gaylord recalled, “but it worked.”

We invite you to be a part of Earth Day at 50 and help write many more chapters— earth day Time Line: struggles and victories—into the Earth Day book. 1970 1980 1990

The first Earth Day mobilized After passing 28 major Earth Day goes global, 20 million Americans to call environmental laws, society mobilizing 200 million people for increased protection for begins to turn towards in 141 countries. our Planet. individual action and corporate greening. 16 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

April 22, falling between Spring Break and Final Exams, was selected as the date.

On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — at the time, 10% of the total population of the United States — took to the streets, parks and auditoriums to THE IDEA FOR THE FIRST EARTH DAY demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, environment in coast-to-coast rallies. then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, It was, and still is, the largest political came up with the idea for a national demonstration in American history. day to focus on the environment Thousands of colleges and universities after he witnessed the ravages of a organized protests against the massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, deterioration of the environment. California, in 1969. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, Senator Groups that had been fighting Earth Day Eve, 1970: 7,000 participants in Independence Mall, Philadelphia. The following day 30,000 Nelson realized that if he could infuse turned out to hear Senator Edward Muskie in Fairmont Park. Photo Credit: the Earth Week Committee the energy of anti-war protests with an individually against oil spills, polluting of Philadelphia emerging public consciousness about factories and power plants, raw air and water pollution, it would force sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, environmental protection onto the freeways, the loss of wilderness and national political agenda. the extinction of wildlife united on Earth Day around shared common Senator Nelson announced the values. Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare idea for a “national teach-in on the political alignment, enlisting support environment” to the national media. from Republicans and Democrats, rich He then persuaded Pete McCloskey, and poor, urban dwellers and farmers, a conservation-minded Republican business and labor leaders. By the Congressman, to serve as his co-chair end of 1970, the first Earth Day had and recruited a 25-year-old named led to the creation of the United States Denis Hayes from Harvard as national Environmental Protection Agency and coordinator. Hayes built a national staff passage of the initial Clean Air, Clean of 85 to promote events across the Water and Endangered Species Acts. land.

“It was a gamble,” Senator Gaylord recalled, “but it worked.” Earth Day 1990: The flag of the earth waves over the crowd on the west front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sunday, April 23, 1990. Over 100,000 people attended the rally in the nation’s capital on the twentieth anniversary of the first Earth Day. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)

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Earth Day leverages the power Earth Day Network launches A Earth Day will mark 50 years of digital media to unite millions Billion Acts of Green and The with global activities that aim of local conservationists across Canopy Project. Earth Day 2010 to mobilize a billion people more than 180 countries. engages 75,000 global partners worldwide for transformative in 192 countries. action for our planet. Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 17 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

1970 – The First Reflecting these perspectives, the association adopted the following Earth Day at PFA objectives: Major Objective: To serve as a public By Linda Finley forum that promotes citizen education in the management and use of forest land and water resources for the Let’s step back 50 years. What were Pennsylvania Forestry Association concerns and activities? benefit of all people. In 1970, The Pennsylvania Forestry Association celebrated 84 years of advocating for and promoting forest conservation. Robert Rumpf, a forester employed as a Director of the Glatfelter Pulp Wood Company of York Supporting Objectives: County, PA, was the association’s president. 1. To provide leadership for educational projects on conservation, protection, Bob and the PFA Board of Directors were well aware of growing public environmental concerns. In 1970 the development and wise use of association used the Pennsylvania Forests magazine, programs, and gatherings to engage association members renewable forest resources, including and friends around prevalent issues. The material below is excerpted from the 1970 Pennsylvania Forests the development of policy on land magazines; it frames the association’s discussions, considerations, and proposed objectives regarding the use allocation for Pennsylvania. environmental movement at that time. 2. To encourage management The following is from an article challenged the officers, directors, and resources our forests provide. Indeed, practices that yield continuous written by Dr. Maurice K. Goddard for members of PFA on the topic. “This is most of the association’s potential supplies of the tangible and American Forests; Dr. Goddard served the time for the Pennsylvania Forestry members may not have had more than intangible values of forest lands and as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Association to take the present a few trees to call their own, and some waters, both goods and services, Department of Forests and Waters opportunity to enlarge its scope. It is surely were apartment dwellers. and including wood and fiber, soil from 1954 through 1979, and he served a vital necessity for PFA to embrace and water, fish and wildlife, outdoor as PFA President 1953 and 1954. the total environment, and be the Rodebaugh reflected on the recreation, aesthetics, and scenic true conservation association for the association’s foundation by settings. There is a vital and growing need for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” acknowledging that it had been strong, independent, and vocal forestry started by a grassroots citizens group On April 22, 1970, an Earth Day associations. The time has come for In response, PFA Vice President, Everett interested in forest conservation. There celebration was not part of the us to get in step with the concern of Rodebaugh wrote, “Looking back we were at that time, no trained foresters, Pennsylvania Forestry Association’s the public today, and that concern is have an honorable history as the oldest no forest industry leaders, and no agenda; however, the association the total environment. Forestry – yes, state forestry association in the United school of forest resources. A good was keenly aware of the movement. of course. Forestry cannot be put in a States, and we have been the pattern number of their members were, by Association leaders unanimously compartment by itself, it is interrelated for many others. Now, looking forward, 1970, foresters or teachers of forestry, agreed that PFA should broaden its with all life and all living. The air we we must make sure our associations or had a forest industry connection. work to include active concern for the breathe or try to breathe, the waters continues to be a leader for others.” The association’s publications for total environment, but without any of our states, both above and below the most part referenced tree farms, retreat from the association’s historical the ground, the land and its uses or He further observed that, so often plywood and lumber, good forestry concern for forestry. misuses, the litter that threatens to forestry was thought of as being management, woodlands, the engulf us, the noise that deafens us, the specialized and narrow, a matter for Department of Forestry, the School of Forest landowner Linda Finley, is a past thermal pollution of our streams, the experts to think about and attend to. Forest Resources, reforestation, and President of the Pennsylvania Forestry alteration of even our climate. . . Forestry did not excite the imagination fire prevention. He believed this was all Association. of people. Many people, he thought, excellent, but he recognized the “need Although Dr. Goddard’s concerns did not consider the essential for a goodly number [of members] who for the future were shared with all environmental, social, and economic are conservation minded about the forestry associations, he personally total environment, about our ecology.” 18 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Maurice K. Goddard Reflecting these perspectives, the received a B.S. in forestry from the University of Maine association adopted the following in 1935. He held a teaching position in forestry at objectives: The Mont Alto School of Forestry in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, from 1935 to 1937. He left in 1938 to receive his master’s degree in forestry from the Major Objective: To serve as a public University of California at Berkeley. He served under forum that promotes citizen education the direct command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the management and use of forest in the U.S. Army during World War II, reaching the rank land and water resources for the Let’s step back 50 years. What were Pennsylvania Forestry Association concerns and activities? of lieutenant colonel. He was awarded the Legion of benefit of all people. Merit and the Bronze Star. In 1970, The Pennsylvania Forestry Association celebrated 84 years of advocating for and promoting forest Supporting Objectives: Following his discharge from the army, Goddard conservation. Robert Rumpf, a forester employed as a Director of the Glatfelter Pulp Wood Company of York returned to his career in forestry. He accepted a position as the director of forestry County, PA, was the association’s president. 1. To provide leadership for educational at The Mont Alto School of Forestry. From there he served the same position at projects on conservation, protection, the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. At this time Goddard began Bob and the PFA Board of Directors were well aware of growing public environmental concerns. In 1970 the development and wise use of to formulate plans for the future of the state parks in Pennsylvania. In 1954, association used the Pennsylvania Forests magazine, programs, and gatherings to engage association members renewable forest resources, including Governor George M. Leader sought Goddard’s advice about who should lead and friends around prevalent issues. The material below is excerpted from the 1970 Pennsylvania Forests the development of policy on land the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters. After receiving Goddard’s magazines; it frames the association’s discussions, considerations, and proposed objectives regarding the use allocation for Pennsylvania. advice, Governor Leader instead appointed Goddard as the secretary of the PA environmental movement at that time. Department of Forests and Waters, a forerunner to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. 2. To encourage management resources our forests provide. Indeed, practices that yield continuous As secretary, Goddard set out to improve the forest department by eliminating most of the association’s potential supplies of the tangible and political appointees and increasing the number of college-educated employees. members may not have had more than intangible values of forest lands and Under his leadership the number of state parks in Pennsylvania grew by 45, and a few trees to call their own, and some waters, both goods and services, there was an increase in size of over 130,000 acres. surely were apartment dwellers. and including wood and fiber, soil and water, fish and wildlife, outdoor Goddard went on to oversee the creation of the Pennsylvania Department Rodebaugh reflected on the recreation, aesthetics, and scenic of Environmental Resources. He retired in 1979 but remained active in the association’s foundation by settings. environmental movement, serving on the boards of the Chesapeake Bay acknowledging that it had been Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, and as President of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. started by a grassroots citizens group On April 22, 1970, an Earth Day interested in forest conservation. There celebration was not part of the were at that time, no trained foresters, Pennsylvania Forestry Association’s PFA President Everett George Rodebaugh no forest industry leaders, and no agenda; however, the association (born 1902), a 1922 graduate of the University school of forest resources. A good was keenly aware of the movement. of Pennsylvania, founded a court-reporting number of their members were, by Association leaders unanimously service in Philadelphia and was a nationally 1970, foresters or teachers of forestry, agreed that PFA should broaden its prominent court reporter. In 1925, he married or had a forest industry connection. work to include active concern for the his high school sweetheart, Grace M. Haspel The association’s publications for total environment, but without any (born 1905). Their home, Welkinweir, became a 197-acre oasis of natural beauty featuring a 55- the most part referenced tree farms, retreat from the association’s historical acre arboretum and historic estate house, as plywood and lumber, good forestry concern for forestry. well as ecologically diverse wetland, meadow, management, woodlands, the and woodland habitats. The property is now Department of Forestry, the School of Forest landowner Linda Finley, is a past a living laboratory for the study of ecological Forest Resources, reforestation, and President of the Pennsylvania Forestry issues, sustainability, and land stewardship, offering inspiration and education fire prevention. He believed this was all Association. for visitors and community members. Welkinweir is the home of Green Valleys excellent, but he recognized the “need Waterways Association, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to protect and for a goodly number [of members] who preserve the water resources of Northern Chester County through advocacy and are conservation minded about the education. http://www.welkinweir.org/ total environment, about our ecology.” Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 19 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

simply adapt and morph in way that would let us survive the pollution PFA like the carp living in the fetid depths Earth Day 50 of Lake Erie had done? There were PROFILE: no audience comments and at the By Richard Lewis conclusion of the meeting the MC simply said, “Well, you have certainly given us something to think about.” 1970: Richard Lewis Fortunately, I had a pretty good slide well received. Next were the Junior collection, so I pulled together a Kodak High students (referred to as the I’m happy to report that because Carousel of slides and headed back “little kids” by my sister who was in of mandated clean air and water On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, I to high school. I recall my remarks the Senior High) and before I could legislation passed over the last fifty was four and a half years out of forestry covered wildfires, Smokey Bear, wildlife, finish up, they lost interest, ignored years that Lake Erie is again a viable school, working as an Area Forester trash disposal (at that time NYC was me, and pandemonium ensued. I was sport fishery with swimmable water. for the NJ Bureau of Forestry in the loading it’s garbage into barges and amazed that neither the principal nor The acidity levels in many of the Kittatinny Mountains of New Jersey. towing it out in the Atlantic to be the teachers made any attempt to Adirondack high country lakes have My busy work schedule was filled with dumped- and hypodermic needles were quiet them down.....it was a humbling improved enough to support viable preparing forest management plans for washing up on New Jersey’s beaches!), experience to realize that I did not have brook trout populations. And we haven’t dozens of forest owners and helping air pollution (New Jersey oil refineries the ability to keep an auditorium full of had to adapt to a polluted environment them manage their woodlands by were frequently casting a foul stench 7, 8, and 9th graders interested in my like the carp that lived in the fetid marking their timber, precommercial over Newark, Hoboken and Jersey presentation! depths of Lake Erie 50 years ago. thinning’s, and preparing reforestation City), and the absence of recycling. I plans. described the lakes in the high country After the High School experience, of the Adirondack Mountains devoid I approached the Rotary Club I received two Earth Day speaking of trout and aquatic life because of presentation a few days later with invitations: one from the high school the “acid rain” from industrial complex some degree of trepidation, but I need my younger sister and brother were emissions in PA, OH, IL, IN, and MI. not have worried because things there attending and the other from the went much better. I did not use slides Newton, NJ Rotary Club. I had not It was a Junior-Senior High School and during the Rotary presentation but Experienced Agricultural Law Attorney!! given many public presentations at the auditorium was not big enough covered some of same environmental that point in my career and was quite to handle all the students, so I had to issues with some local examples (like nervous. Back in those days the only AV repeat my presentation. I first spoke the farm and industrial pollution of the equipment available was the overhead to the Senior High students; they were Paulenskill River, a Trout stream that projector and the 35 MM projector. attentive, and my presentation was ran through Sussex County).

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simply adapt and morph in way that would let us survive the pollution like the carp living in the fetid depths Earth Day 50 of Lake Erie had done? There were no audience comments and at the conclusion of the meeting the MC simply said, “Well, you have certainly given us something to think about.” well received. Next were the Junior High students (referred to as the I’m happy to report that because “little kids” by my sister who was in of mandated clean air and water the Senior High) and before I could legislation passed over the last fifty finish up, they lost interest, ignored years that Lake Erie is again a viable me, and pandemonium ensued. I was sport fishery with swimmable water. amazed that neither the principal nor The acidity levels in many of the the teachers made any attempt to Adirondack high country lakes have quiet them down.....it was a humbling improved enough to support viable experience to realize that I did not have brook trout populations. And we haven’t the ability to keep an auditorium full of had to adapt to a polluted environment 7, 8, and 9th graders interested in my like the carp that lived in the fetid The Cuyahoga River on fire. presentation! depths of Lake Erie 50 years ago. Author Richard Lewis is Vice President of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and Immediate Past President of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. Richard, his wife Jakie, After the High School experience, and their two dogs live four miles west of Gettysburg in the Adams County, PA countryside I approached the Rotary Club where they enjoy growing fields of wildflowers, taking their grandchildren on walks and presentation a few days later with watching the deer, turkeys, fox, mink, muskrats, beavers, kingfishers, bald eagles, waterfowl, some degree of trepidation, but I need and other wildlife along Marsh Creek that flows 75 yards from their front doorstep. not have worried because things there went much better. I did not use slides during the Rotary presentation but FORESTRY JOE GLOVER covered some of same environmental Experienced Agricultural Law Attorney!! SOLUTIONS Strattanville, PA issues with some local examples (like 814.764.6426 the farm and industrial pollution of the THAT MEET Paulenskill River, a Trout stream that YOUR OBJECTIVES. ran through Sussex County).

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PFA Oh, the memories! Out of the Frying Pan, PROFILE: By John D. Laskowski

The following is from a review of my flight Into the Fire volunteers for cleaning. It was a horrible logs and personal diaries I have kept for the sight to see - thousands of birds dead or By Nancy G.W. Baker last 54 years. With those and my school dying on the oil-coated beach. plan books, I have record of where I was I am having trouble “celebrating” Earth Day and what I did each day since June 6th, On March 21, 1969, President Richard this year; somehow the anniversary logo 1967: Nixon landed at Point Mugu in Air Force “Celebrating 50 Years” seems a bit off - like One and I was in a soldier/sailor formal partying or reveling. I did not “celebrate” The rupturing of the pipe below the Union military President’s review by Nixon. He the first Earth Day. But I was very much Oil offshore Platform A Derrick # 69 in the was then flown in a helicopter to see the involved! As a graduate student at the Santa Barbara Channel on Jan 28th, 1969 derrick and beach damage. The initial Institute of Ecology at the University of connected me directly to the concept of Earth Day anniversary was celebrated in Georgia in the midst of writing a thesis, Earth Day. Being a college biology major California a year later on March 21, 1970; I - and my friends - dropped whatever but serving in the United States Navy as it was the first day of spring - the vernal we were doing to facilitate a giant teach- an Aviation Electronics Technician (ATR- equinox. But, of course, politics prevails in that engulfed the entire campus and 2), I was very aware of the day by day and the original Earth Day date anniversary community. We were all about the facts. consequences that eventually resulted in was set as Jan 28th, 1970 – then called And the science. And getting the word out. an 800 square mile expanse of crude oil “Environmental Rights Day” one year after Changing attitudes and making things on the surface of the Pacific Ocean. I was the oil spill event date. As a result of the happen! stationed at NAS Point Mugu, Oxnard, coordination of California environmental I grew up in Linden, New Jersey. Linden is California, south of Santa Barbara, serving activists Marc McGinnis, Denis Hayes, and 17 miles from Manhattan, NY; it’s right on with the Pacific Missile Range, flying ICBM Co-Chairs Congressman Pete McCloskey the Arthur Kill, the navigable waterway that missile tracking missions down to NAS (CA) and Senator Gaylord Nelson (WI) Photo Credit: Jeffrey Prosser, PFA member. The separates the city of 36,000 from Staten Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands in founded “Earth Day” with the legislation of wood is an example of Lichtenberg etching using Island. Linden is bisected by U.S. Route the South Pacific Ocean. 30,000 volts of AC electricity to burn the surface the National Environmental Policy Act. On of the wood. This was created by the artist Dan 1, the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden that day, I was in flight to Andrews AFB, Kepner of Harrisburg. His work can be seen at State Parkway, and Conrail’s main east It’s the events after Jan 28th that are Washington DC to go to an operational Andalog. coast train lines. It has its own airport. significant in my memory. Many naval meeting at the Pentagon. It’s a crucial transportation hub. In 1938, personnel, including myself, were, on when my dad traveled by passenger train Feb 3-5, 1969, assigned to the duty of Later the “official” governmental on the beach one week later. I will never between Philadelphia and New York, he spreading straw bales on the beaches designation of Earth Day was set as April forget the enormity of that oil spill and looked out at Linden and said to himself to absorb the crude oil that reached 22nd. That day I was on leave flying back its environmental consequences. In my “that’s the last place I’d want to live.” But the shore, coating everything in its path to Harrisburg prior to transferring to NAS subsequent years of biology study in it paid the highest salaries in the state for including dolphins, seals, sea lions, more Guam with AEWRON ONE (VW-1) to fly grad school, and during my 28 years of teachers, had a superb school system with than 10,000 shore birds, and various typhoon reconnaissance over the Pacific teaching high school biology and ecology, extraordinary educators, a public library in marine life. We retrieved some surviving Ocean... with occasional deployments to Earth Day was recounted yearly with each of its 17 schools... and the best fire birds and passed them on to civilian DaNang, Vietnam to fly radar surveillance lesson plans to relate that catastrophe to company in N.J. When I lived there Linden of the Gulf of Tonkin... which my students. was home to the Bayway/ Standard I did until my discharge from Oil Refinery, a Citgo Refinery, a General the USN on June 6th, 1971. Motors Assembly Plant (Buick, Pontiac, John D. Laskowski is co-owner with his Oldsmobile, Cadillac, plus Grumman FM brother Allen of Carsonville Tree Farms, Wildcat Fighter planes during WWII), the This year we’ll celebrate the Dauphin County. The property is part of E.I. DuPont/Grasselli Chemical Works 50th Earth Day on April 22nd. the Pennsylvania Tree Farm Program and (sulfuric, phosphoric and hydrocyanic But to me the real “Earth was awarded Tree Farm of the Year in acids, dyes, chlorine, pesticides, Day” was Jan 28th, 1969 1983. John is a US Navy veteran, retired mercury...), Aborn Coffee, Seagram’s Gin, when I first saw that oil spill biologist and educator, and serves on the etc. etc. etc.... it sits right between the Port on TV and became keenly board of the Ned Smith Center for Nature Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal for aware of the environmental and Art. In 2013 John was honored with the ocean-going tankers and Merck Chemical catastrophe - by personally Joseph T. Rothrock Award for his untiring in Rahway. stepping into the thick layer efforts to promote forest conservation in The 1969 explosion leaked millions of gallons of oil into the sea. of black crude oil or grease Our house had heavy gauge copper Straw placed to absorb oil is shoveled and racked off the beach at Pennsylvania. downspouts. Airborne sulfuric acid Santa Barbara Harbor. Photo: AP Photo the consistency of molasses 22 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

PFA Oh, the memories! Out of the Frying Pan, PROFILE: By John D. Laskowski Into the Fire By Nancy G.W. Baker I am having trouble “celebrating” Earth Day pollution ate through them in this year; somehow the anniversary logo less than 15 years. My mom “Celebrating 50 Years” seems a bit off - like sometimes set out the garbage partying or reveling. I did not “celebrate” can in the morning and came back the first Earth Day. But I was very much inside vomiting. In 1970, Linden’s involved! As a graduate student at the Humbolt Refinery exploded in a Institute of Ecology at the University of blast felt 40 miles up the Hudson Georgia in the midst of writing a thesis, River, shooting flames 1000 feet I - and my friends - dropped whatever high; the best fire company couldn’t we were doing to facilitate a giant teach- put it out – it just burned out. That in that engulfed the entire campus and refinery has consistently been community. We were all about the facts. ranked among the worst polluters And the science. And getting the word out. in the nation, and has been cited Bayway Refinery (center right) is part of the industrial Changing attitudes and making things almost 200 times since 2005 for complex on the salt marshes along the Rahway River, Morse’s happen! violation of state environmental laws. Creek, and Arthur Kill in Linden, N.J. I grew up in Linden, New Jersey. Linden is It is also ranked as the 32nd worst 17 miles from Manhattan, NY; it’s right on water polluter in the country. Linden and others- personally. We were mentored the Arthur Kill, the navigable waterway that is a SuperFund Site today. Two years ago and encouraged to combine facts derived Photo Credit: Jeffrey Prosser, PFA member. The separates the city of 36,000 from Staten New Jersey asked for 8.9 Billion dollars to from scientific inquiry, the logic of law, wood is an example of Lichtenberg etching using Island. Linden is bisected by U.S. Route clean it up. and the creativity of the arts to make a 30,000 volts of AC electricity to burn the surface of the wood. This was created by the artist Dan 1, the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden I was motivated that first Earth Day. I had difference. Kepner of Harrisburg. His work can be seen at State Parkway, and Conrail’s main east one of two National Science Foundation Did we change anything? Oh yes we Andalog. coast train lines. It has its own airport. Traineeships at UGA; I made the princely did! We know more about how the world It’s a crucial transportation hub. In 1938, sum of $2,400 a year with no costs for works; we have cleaner air and water. when my dad traveled by passenger train tuition nor any other educational expenses. We’ve developed extraordinary tools. on the beach one week later. I will never between Philadelphia and New York, he And that year the UGA Botany Department looked out at Linden and said to himself provided its graduate students (I own Is our job finished? Not on your life! No forget the enormity of that oil spill and time to celebrate; we have work to do! its environmental consequences. In my “that’s the last place I’d want to live.” But up; I was their president) with $10,000 to subsequent years of biology study in it paid the highest salaries in the state for bring in academic speakers from across grad school, and during my 28 years of teachers, had a superb school system with the US. Let’s put that in perspective: teaching high school biology and ecology, extraordinary educators, a public library in today a NSF trainee is awarded $34,000 Earth Day was recounted yearly with each of its 17 schools... and the best fire a year – our budget for speakers would lesson plans to relate that catastrophe to company in N.J. When I lived there Linden be equivalent to almost $142,000! We my students. was home to the Bayway/ Standard spent it! All of it! On the best scientists Oil Refinery, a Citgo Refinery, a General from across the county. We made sure to Motors Assembly Plant (Buick, Pontiac, give grad students one-on-one time with John D. Laskowski is co-owner with his Oldsmobile, Cadillac, plus Grumman FM the speakers but we shared them with brother Allen of Carsonville Tree Farms, Wildcat Fighter planes during WWII), the everyone. Dauphin County. The property is part of E.I. DuPont/Grasselli Chemical Works Yes, we were motivated. We had come the Pennsylvania Tree Farm Program and (sulfuric, phosphoric and hydrocyanic through an electrifying and humbling was awarded Tree Farm of the Year in acids, dyes, chlorine, pesticides, Sputnik launch, J.F. Kennedy’s “not what 1983. John is a US Navy veteran, retired mercury...), Aborn Coffee, Seagram’s Gin, your country can do for you, but what biologist and educator, and serves on the etc. etc. etc.... it sits right between the Port you can do for your country.” We knew board of the Ned Smith Center for Nature Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal for the Peace Corps, Vietnam protests, and Art. In 2013 John was honored with the ocean-going tankers and Merck Chemical assassinations, the moon landing. We Nancy G.W. Baker is a Pennsylvania forest Joseph T. Rothrock Award for his untiring in Rahway. knew ecologists Gene Odum, Garrett landowner, a forest ecologist, and an editor efforts to promote forest conservation in Our house had heavy gauge copper Hardin, Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Robert of this magazine. Pennsylvania. downspouts. Airborne sulfuric acid McArthur, Robert Whittaker, Dan Janzen, Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 23 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

Beginning with helping to organize and conduct the Maurice K. Goddard PFA Symposium in 1997, I joined an ad hoc Impact & Inspiration group of conservation professionals PROFILE: who would dedicate their passion and By Wayne Kober energies to researching, documenting, and telling the stories of the On that first Earth Day in 1970, I was a management was so new that few to work with other prominent and Commonwealth’s rich conservation sophomore at the McKeesport campus employers understood my academic influential environmental leaders in the heritage over the next two decades. of Penn State majoring in forestry. training and expertise. Commonwealth such as-- Although I consider myself to have been • Ralph Abele- Executive Director of the In 2009, representatives from some mostly a spectator that day, the impact Over 100 letters to agencies and PA Fish and Boat Commission of Pennsylvania’s prominent historical of the day on campus and the national companies who I was sure would need • Glen Bowers- Executive Director of the and environmental organizations news had a profound impact on me. my brand new expertise yielded little PA Game Commission came together in partnership with success; this wasn’t unusual, only five of the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Wanting to make a difference in the my fellow ERM graduates had by then • Pete Duncan- Secretary of the Foundation to create the Goddard world, at the suggestion of my advisor succeeded in finding a position that PA Department of Environmental Legacy Project. I decided to switch from forestry to a tracked with our studies. Resources and Executive Director of new major, Environmental Resource the PA Game Commission The mission of the Project was to Management (ERM). I was among only Sometimes it is very hard to be the trail- • David Hess- Secretary of the PA answer a simple question, “Where will 10 ERM students at Penn State in 1970 blazer! Department of Environmental we find our future conservation leaders?” and by the fall of 1971 I had transferred Protection and author of the PA to Penn State’s main campus. Environmental Digest Eventually, though, the Department Using the Goddard Legacy as a of Transportation saw the wisdom • Larry Schweiger- Executive Director of springboard, the partners have now Being in the first class of ERM, there in hiring me and I became Assistant the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy expanded the search for future leaders was a lot of new ground for teachers Planning and Programming Engineer in and CEO of the National Wildlife to the Conservation Heritage Project. and students. Only in my senior year did Engineering District 9-0 in Hollidaysburg Federation we break away from required general in 1974, launching my 35-year career • Franklin Kury- Attorney and State The overarching mission of the Project science courses and get into the working in the transportation field Representative primarily responsible is to create a comprehensive archive of environmental resource management focused on planning and environmental for the Environmental Amendment to the important story of conservation in courses that had been created and management. taught for the first time ever. The idea the State Constitution the Commonwealth, including profiles of for ERM was to bring an environmental I was able to serve as, among other • John Arway- Executive Director of the focus to government and infrastructure positions, Director of the Bureau of PA Fish and Boat Commission planning. It’s hard to imagine now what Environmental Quality for PennDOT • Walter Lyon- Deputy Secretary of the an innovative concept this was, but the and as time passed and I transitioned PA Department of Environmental truly multidisciplinary, collaborative, into private industry, I am happy to note Resources and scientific approach of the program Planting Memories of Earth Day that the dreamed-for consideration of meant we became well-versed on a wide • James C. Nelson- Director of environmental impacts on transportation range of business processes, laws, and the Bureau of Forestry in the PA issues has become standard. regulations, and could communicate Department of Environmental with a wide range of decision-makers. Resources Looking back, one of the ERM courses • Brenda Barrett- Director of the PA that influenced me the most was a During the summer breaks from Penn Historical and Museum Commission seminar with guest speakers from State and after graduation in 1973, I Bureau of Historic Preservation and government and industry. worked as a laborer and park ranger at the National Park Service Heritage Park Pymatuning and Poe Valley State Parks. Most prominent among these speakers Program was Maurice K. Goddard, the Secretary That work gave me the opportunity to • Greg Grabowicz- Director of the PA of the Department of Environmental see first-hand what it takes to manage Game Commission Bureau of Land Resources, a relatively new state agency Pennsylvania’s state park system, Management protect our natural resources, and created in 1970 from the Department of All the while I was working at PennDOT interact with the public in both positive Forests and Waters. During my professional career, I held and in my consulting practice, I pursued and negative situations. a variety of positions, all connected my strong interest in promoting His lecture began my exposure to someway to or with natural resources. I conservation leadership and the This experience was doubly important the environmental leaders in the Commonwealth’s Conservation was a park ranger, was employed as the as it became apparent on graduation Commonwealth. Over the course of Heritage. “Environmental Person” for Gateways that the field of environmental resource my career, I would have the pleasure Engineers Company in Pittsburgh, 24 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

Beginning with helping to organize some of the very people I’ve listed above and conduct the Maurice K. Goddard as having been so important in my own Symposium in 1997, I joined an ad hoc career. group of conservation professionals who would dedicate their passion and In summary, I have been inspired By Wayne Kober energies to researching, documenting, and motivated by Earth Day 1970, and telling the stories of the subsequent Earth Day events, and to work with other prominent and Commonwealth’s rich conservation prominent conservation leaders in influential environmental leaders in the heritage over the next two decades. the present and the past to dedicate Commonwealth such as-- much of my personal and professional • Ralph Abele- Executive Director of the In 2009, representatives from some energies to promoting conservation and PA Fish and Boat Commission of Pennsylvania’s prominent historical stewardship. • Glen Bowers- Executive Director of the and environmental organizations PA Game Commission came together in partnership with I have been blessed with good health, the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests fortune, opportunities, family, friends, • Pete Duncan- Secretary of the Foundation to create the Goddard education, community, and a strong Wayne Kober, now retired, is Co- PA Department of Environmental Legacy Project. Resources and Executive Director of belief that people will do the right thing if Chair of the advisory committee the PA Game Commission they understand why. for Pennsylvania’s Conservation The mission of the Project was to Heritage Project, a project devoted • David Hess- Secretary of the PA answer a simple question, “Where will I thank all of the conservation to honoring the contributions of Department of Environmental we find our future conservation leaders?” and environmental professionals Pennsylvania’s conservation heroes. Protection and author of the PA whose work continues to change Over the course of his career, he helped Environmental Digest Using the Goddard Legacy as a lives and inspire dedication to the found the Pennsylvania Association • Larry Schweiger- Executive Director of springboard, the partners have now Commonwealth, for all they stood for, of Environmental Professionals, and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy expanded the search for future leaders and for the foundation they laid. served on the Greenways Partnership and CEO of the National Wildlife to the Conservation Heritage Project. Commission, Gov. Tom Ridge’s 21st Federation Century Environment Commission, the • Franklin Kury- Attorney and State The overarching mission of the Project Environmental Quality Board, the Sound Representative primarily responsible is to create a comprehensive archive of Land Use Committee, and the Green for the Environmental Amendment to the important story of conservation in Government Council. Wayne is co-chair of the State Constitution the Commonwealth, including profiles of PFA’s Forest Heritage Committee. • John Arway- Executive Director of the PA Fish and Boat Commission • Walter Lyon- Deputy Secretary of the PA Department of Environmental PFA Resources Planting Memories of Earth Day • James C. Nelson- Director of PROFILE: the Bureau of Forestry in the PA By Gene Odato Department of Environmental Resources collected data for the USFS PA Forest sold to homeowners, business, schools, • Brenda Barrett- Director of the PA Inventory, worked for the Lebanon County farms. Trees were used for windbreaks, Historical and Museum Commission Conservation District, on to DER soils riparian zones, shade trees, wildlife Bureau of Historic Preservation and and water conservation, rounding out my habitat, and Christmas trees - all good the National Park Service Heritage Park career with the Bureau of Forestry reasons to plant trees. The Tree Seedling Program In 1978 while working with the Lebanon Sales have given thousands of people an • Greg Grabowicz- Director of the PA County Conservation District, several easy and meaningfully way to celebrate Game Commission Bureau of Land SE Pennsylvania counties used the Earth Day. Management popularity of Earth Day and Arbor Day to All the while I was working at PennDOT promote their first annual Tree Seedling Gene Odato is a Retired District Forester, During my professional career, I held and in my consulting practice, I pursued Sales. The districts purchased thousands PA Bureau of Forestry and a past-president a variety of positions, all connected my strong interest in promoting of seedlings to repackage in to small of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association; someway to or with natural resources. I conservation leadership and the bundles available for sale to county Gene and his wife Kathy own Artisan Commonwealth’s Conservation was a park ranger, was employed as the residents. The Annual Conservation Pizza, a mobile WOOD-FIRED (of course!) Heritage. “Environmental Person” for Gateways Districts Tree Seedling Sales caught on oven pizza catering business providing Engineers Company in Pittsburgh, statewide. Millions of tree seedlings were fantastic pizza. Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 25 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

1987 • Voters of Pennsylvania pass a referendum allowing a $100 million EARTH DAY AT 50: bond issue to preserve farmland. The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program is created the following year. PENNSYLVANIA MILESTONES IN FORESTRY 1988 Plus a few additional signposts and landmarks along the way... • Zebra mussels, an invasive species, are discovered in Lake Erie for the first time. 1970 • Congress enacts the Federal Water to Danville and the drinking supply Pollution Control Act Amendments of of the town’s 11,700 residents. The • The cleanup of the extremely polluted • Fostered by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord 1972, the basis of future Clean Water discharge is traced to the dumping Delaware Estuary becomes one of the Nelson, the first Earth Day is celebrated Act. It introduces the concept of point of waste oil into the mine tunnel by a premier water pollution control success on April 22 with 20 million Americans sources of pollution and permitted disposal company hired by the Hi-Way stories in the United States. demonstrating on behalf of a healthy, discharges, among other innovations. Auto Service Station. A $2.2 million sustainable environment. 1990 clean-up ensues along with five years • The PA Department of Environmental • A late April wind-whipped forest fire, 1973 of monitoring by the state; after more Resources is formed, combining the • The U.S. Endangered Species Act started by arson, burns more than flooding in 1985 it becomes a Super- Department of Forests and Waters and becomes law, to protect and recover 10,000 acres on the Sproul State Fund Site. other environmental, conservation and imperiled species and the ecosystems Forest’s steep isolated mountains in some public health programs into a upon which they depend. 1980 central Pennsylvania, doing $4,000,000 single department with vast regulatory • The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act in damage- including 9646 acres of responsibilities. Maurice K. Goddard is 1976 is adopted, authorizing the U.S. Fish & timber. “The worst PA Forest Fire in • Clean and Green, established by the appointed its first Secretary. Wildlife Service to help states develop more than 50 years.” Pennsylvania Farmland and Forest • The PA legislature strengthens the non– game management programs. • The Rails to Trails Act authorizes 1937 Clean Streams Law to change Land Assessment Act, provides for the Department of Environmental its focus from pollution abatement lower property tax assessments of 1981 Resources to acquire and develop to pollution prevention. The federal land capable of producing agricultural • Defoliation by the invasive gypsy moth railroad rights-of-way for public government passes a new Clean Air products and timber or providing open visible on 12.9 million acres between recreational trail use; the Act limits Act making air pollution control a space for public use. Maine and Maryland. the liability of persons who provide national responsibility and signaling • Amendments to the Game Law property for public recreational use. make it illegal to damage a tree while 1982 that a clean environment and healthy • The Pennsylvania Eagle Protection constructing a tree stand or using a 1991 economy are not mutually exclusive and Reward Fund is created by the portable stand on public and private • The first class of the Pennsylvania goals. Game Commission, with cooperation properties (unless the private owner Volunteer Initiative Project peer-to- of the Pennsylvania and National 1971 gives written permission). peer woodland education program • In May, the people of Pennsylvania Wildlife Federations, the Pennsylvania graduates. The VIP’s become the approve the Environmental Rights 1978 Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, Pennsylvania Forest Stewards PaFSs Amendment. • The bald eagle is listed by the the National Audubon Society, Hawk and, in 2020, celebrate more than Department of the Interior as Mountain Sanctuary, and Pennsylvania 700 trained leaders who work hard 1972 endangered or threatened in 43 states. Forestry Association, offering rewards to get the right tools, resources, and • In June, 19 inches of rain from of up to $1,500 for information leading connections into the hands of their Hurricane Agnes come down over the 1979 to the prosecution of anyone harassing, • On March 28, a series of mishaps and fellow woodland owners so that they course of two days, causing significant injuring or killing a bald eagle in lapses in judgment result in the partial can apply sound stewardship practices flooding. Agnes leaves behind over $3 Pennsylvania. to care for their forests. billion in damage across the U.S. meltdown of Reactor No. 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station • The Public Recycling Officials of • Agricultural use of DDT is outlawed in 1984 Pennsylvania (PROP) is established to the U.S. in Dauphin County, leading to the • Stanley Watras, a construction worker at release of radioactive material. promote and enhance recycling and • The Pennsylvania Lumber Museum in the Limmerick Nuclear Power Plant near recycling programs in Pennsylvania Potter County holds its grand opening. • On July 30, an oil slick from bank to Pottstown (Montgomery County) sets bank of the Susquehanna is traced to through education, information • A forest insect spray program is off the radiation monitors at the plant exchange, technical support, applied undertaken by the Department of the Butler Mine Tunnel near Pittston although there is as yet no radioactive (Luzerne County). Contaminants research, and coordination of recycling Environmental Resources to try and material at the plant. The source is found industry development. control gypsy moth populations. are found downstream for 60 miles to be radon gas in his home. 26 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

1987 • The Pennsylvania Biological Survey is 1999 established to increase knowledge and • Voters of Pennsylvania pass a • The Proctor and Gamble Mehoopany foster the biological diversity native to referendum allowing a $100 million plant, in operation since 1966, the Commonwealth. EARTH DAY AT 50: bond issue to preserve farmland. The decommissions the largest hardwood Agricultural Conservation Easement 1992 paper mill in America and substitutes Program is created the following year. • An otter release in the Youghiogheny eucalyptus pulp from Brazil. The PENNSYLVANIA MILESTONES IN FORESTRY 1988 River brings river otters back to the northeastern PA market for low-grade drainage for the first time in more than hardwood tanks. • Zebra mussels, an invasive species, Plus a few additional signposts and landmarks along the way... 100 years. • The Growing Greener fund is are discovered in Lake Erie for the first established with $650 million time. to Danville and the drinking supply 1993 committed over five years to fund • The cleanup of the extremely polluted of the town’s 11,700 residents. The • The US Forest Service introduces conservation and environmental Delaware Estuary becomes one of the discharge is traced to the dumping its Forest Stewardship Program to protection projects. premier water pollution control success of waste oil into the mine tunnel by a encourage long-term stewardship of • The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests stories in the United States. disposal company hired by the Hi-Way important forest landscapes. Foundation is formed to provide a voice Auto Service Station. A $2.2 million 1990 • Pennsylvania’s Environmental for and expansion of Pennsylvania’s Education Act provides for clean-up ensues along with five years • A late April wind-whipped forest fire, state parks and forests. environmental education programs of monitoring by the state; after more started by arson, burns more than within the Commonwealth. In 2002, 2000 flooding in 1985 it becomes a Super- 10,000 acres on the Sproul State citing the Environmental Rights • Pennsylvania’s state forests become Fund Site. Forest’s steep isolated mountains in Amendment, the PA Department of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) central Pennsylvania, doing $4,000,000 1980 Education adopts academic standards Certified as sustainably managed, in damage- including 9646 acres of • The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act for environment and ecology in all making it the largest publicly owned timber. “The worst PA Forest Fire in is adopted, authorizing the U.S. Fish & Pennsylvania schools. FSC Certified Forest in the country. more than 50 years.” Wildlife Service to help states develop • Green Mountain Energy’s wind farm • The Rails to Trails Act authorizes non– game management programs. 1994 near Garrett (Somerset County) is the the Department of Environmental • The lowest temperature ever recorded first wind farm in Pennsylvania. 1981 Resources to acquire and develop in Pittsburgh was – 22F on January • Defoliation by the invasive gypsy moth railroad rights-of-way for public 19; temperatures in the -40 range are 2002 visible on 12.9 million acres between recreational trail use; the Act limits recorded in colder areas of the state. • With funding for Growing Greener Maine and Maryland. the liability of persons who provide set to expire and the initiative property for public recreational use. 1995 an acknowledged success, the 1982 • The Department of Environmental • The Pennsylvania Eagle Protection Environmental Stewardship Fund is 1991 Resources is divided into The created through an increase in the and Reward Fund is created by the • The first class of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and tipping fee (the fee for dumping trash in Game Commission, with cooperation Volunteer Initiative Project peer-to- Natural Resources (DCNR) and landfills) to be used for environmental of the Pennsylvania and National peer woodland education program Department of Environmental restoration and conservation. Wildlife Federations, the Pennsylvania graduates. The VIP’s become the Protection (DEP). John Oliver, former Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, Pennsylvania Forest Stewards PaFSs president of the Western Pennsylvania 2003 the National Audubon Society, Hawk and, in 2020, celebrate more than Conservancy, becomes Secretary of • Peregrine falcons are found breeding Mountain Sanctuary, and Pennsylvania 700 trained leaders who work hard DCNR. on cliff sides in Pennsylvania for the Forestry Association, offering rewards to get the right tools, resources, and • The Environmental Protection Agency’s first time since the 1950s. of up to $1,500 for information leading connections into the hands of their Brownfields program is created to to the prosecution of anyone harassing, fellow woodland owners so that they help states clean up hazardous waste 2004 injuring or killing a bald eagle in can apply sound stewardship practices and materials so those areas can be • In an effort to forestall the impact of Pennsylvania. to care for their forests. reused. hemlock woolly adelgid, DCNR’s Bureau • The Public Recycling Officials of • Governor Ridge signs Act 18, assigning of Forestry develops the Eastern 1984 Pennsylvania (PROP) is established to the Bureau of Forestry to DCNR. Hemlock Conservation Plan, and • Stanley Watras, a construction worker at promote and enhance recycling and begins treating high-value hemlocks in the Limmerick Nuclear Power Plant near recycling programs in Pennsylvania 1998 state parks and forests. Pottstown (Montgomery County) sets • The largest earthquake recorded in through education, information • Pennsylvania’s first Marcellus shale off the radiation monitors at the plant Pennsylvania occurs near Pymatuning exchange, technical support, applied well is drilled using hydraulic fracturing although there is as yet no radioactive Lake in northwestern Pennsylvania. research, and coordination of recycling technology in Washington County. material at the plant. The source is found industry development. The quake measures 5.2 magnitude. to be radon gas in his home. Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 27 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

EARTH DAY AT 50: PENNSYLVANIA MILESTONES IN FORESTRY (continued from page 27) 2007 Michaux Lectures. The initial Michaux success; it becomes a biennial event. Lectures, given by Dr. Joseph T. In subsequent years it becomes the • Emerald Ash Borer is discovered in PA EARTH DAY 50 EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES Rothrock, were the impetus for the largest forest landowner event in the Pennsylvania, a serious threat to the founding of the Pennsylvania Forestry Middle Atlantic States. 308 million ash trees in the forests of Association. • A nesting pair of Bald Eagles is seen This spring issue of Pennsylvania Forests was originally formatted to list nearly 50 events on this milestone Pennsylvania. This begins a rush to in Pittsburgh for the first time in 150 anniversary of Earth Day. The Pennsylvania Forestry Association deeply regrets that virtually all Earth Day 50 events salvage American White Ash and to 2011 years. mitigate hazard trees. and activities have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Any updates from the many dedicated partners • The Penn State Center for Private and volunteers who planned these celebrations can be found at www.earthday50pa.org. 2008 Forests is created with a mission to 2014 • Improve the health and vitality of • The Game Commission authorizes the • Roxane S. Palone becomes the first private forests; • Engage the public, first-ever camera in a Pennsylvania The PFA Encourages You to Continue to Safely Enjoy the Outdoors and Our Home Earth. woman elected president of the landowners, and natural resources bald eagle nest and millions of people Pennsylvania Game Commission. professionals as a community that enjoy a close-up view of the three We Suggest That Everyone: • The PA Women and Their Woods applies sound stewardship practices to successfully fledged chicks. begins educating women who own care for forest ecosystems; • Cultivate • Spotted Lanternfly discovered in Bucks and manage woodlands. In 2017 it is Watch one of the commonwealth’s three eagle cams or the Rachel Carson building’s peregrine falcon cam – all of a model for applied excellence in County. highlighted at a national conference which will have hatchlings by April.• Do a deep dive into your bookshelf or ask a friend to suggest a favorite sustaining our forests, drawing supported by Yale; in 2018, the program environmental classic. There are two terrific lists on the EarthDaypa.org website. • Read aloud to someone. • Sit upon leading research and the direct 2018 serves as a shadowing opportunity for experience of forest landowners. • Ellen Shultzabarger becomes in the woods and use all your senses. • Start a nature journal; draw, color, carry your camera. • Watch the clouds; natural resource professionals from Pennsylvania’s first female State practice forecasting the weather. • Clean out the bird boxes for new residents. • Investigate a pile of dirt. • Find online other states interested in creating 2012 Forester and Director of the Bureau similar resources beyond the Mid- ID guides and aps; learn to use them. • Share, find a way! • Attach a youngster to your woods! • Plant a tree! • Penn State University restructures of Forestry, PA Department of Atlantic. its College of Agricultural Science Conservation and Natural Resources • The “Great Recession” deals the PA For Homebound Students: and renames the School of Forest timber industry a terrific blow; in Resources. The school’s forestry major 2019 subsequent years it rebuilds with a The PA Association of Environmental Educators has opened a special Teaching Environmental Ed At Home (Forest Ecosystem Management) • Pennsylvania’s State Forests robust export business only to suffer resource webpage to help parents, grandparents, teachers and school officials provide an EE learning experience is placed in the newly created receive prestigious, independent SFI again with the pangs of the 2019 tariff while their students are home. http://www.paee.net/teaching-ee-at-home.html Department of Ecosystem Science and Certification; the 2.2 million acres wars. Management. are now duel certified (FSC/SFI) as 2010 sustainably managed. DCNR’s Bureau of State Parks Outdoor Programming Services Division put together two lists of EE At Home 2013 activities. There is a rich mix here for parents, teachers and students to explore! • The South Mountain Partnership • The first statewide Pennsylvania 2020 List #1 - Webinars, Activities, Resources https://tinyurl.com/rfga9qn launches its Speakers Series, intended • Earth Day at 50! Progress and Forest Landowners Conference is a List #2 - More Activities, Make Your Home Green, Resources. https://tinyurl.com/vyfcq54 as a revival of the 19th century Challenges!

Modified from The PA Environment Timeline by Lindsay Phillips, Ed Charles, and RJ Phiambolis; find the complete timeline from PA Parks & Forests Foundation is busily finding fun things to do to entertain the little ones (and yourself), including William Penn to today at The Pennsylvania Conservation Heritage Project: https://paconservationheritage.org/timeline/ the freebies you can find at https://paparksandforests.org/about-us/publications/. One of those freebies is the Art in the Parks coloring book. Snap a picture of your finished product and send it to fridayswithpam@ paparksandforests.org. PA Parks & Forests will draw one at random for a gift from the prize closet!

The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Wildlife Student Guide includes 58 pages of wildlife coloring pages, education facts, fun activities and more. https://tinyurl.com/sg3xzgd

The PA Conservation Heritage Project has 9 documentaries about PA conservation leaders, and initiatives free for viewing online. https:// paconservationheritage.org/documentaries/.

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EARTH DAY AT 50: PENNSYLVANIA MILESTONES IN FORESTRY (continued from page 27) success; it becomes a biennial event. In subsequent years it becomes the PA EARTH DAY 50 EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES largest forest landowner event in the Middle Atlantic States. • A nesting pair of Bald Eagles is seen This spring issue of Pennsylvania Forests was originally formatted to list nearly 50 events on this milestone in Pittsburgh for the first time in 150 anniversary of Earth Day. The Pennsylvania Forestry Association deeply regrets that virtually all Earth Day 50 events years. and activities have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Any updates from the many dedicated partners and volunteers who planned these celebrations can be found at www.earthday50pa.org. 2014 • The Game Commission authorizes the first-ever camera in a Pennsylvania The PFA Encourages You to Continue to Safely Enjoy the Outdoors and Our Home Earth. bald eagle nest and millions of people enjoy a close-up view of the three We Suggest That Everyone: successfully fledged chicks. • Spotted Lanternfly discovered in Bucks Watch one of the commonwealth’s three eagle cams or the Rachel Carson building’s peregrine falcon cam – all of County. which will have hatchlings by April.• Do a deep dive into your bookshelf or ask a friend to suggest a favorite 2018 environmental classic. There are two terrific lists on the EarthDaypa.org website. • Read aloud to someone. • Sit • Ellen Shultzabarger becomes in the woods and use all your senses. • Start a nature journal; draw, color, carry your camera. • Watch the clouds; Pennsylvania’s first female State practice forecasting the weather. • Clean out the bird boxes for new residents. • Investigate a pile of dirt. • Find online Forester and Director of the Bureau ID guides and aps; learn to use them. • Share, find a way! • Attach a youngster to your woods! • Plant a tree! of Forestry, PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources For Homebound Students: 2019 The PA Association of Environmental Educators has opened a special Teaching Environmental Ed At Home • Pennsylvania’s State Forests resource webpage to help parents, grandparents, teachers and school officials provide an EE learning experience receive prestigious, independent SFI Certification; the 2.2 million acres while their students are home. http://www.paee.net/teaching-ee-at-home.html are now duel certified (FSC/SFI) as sustainably managed. DCNR’s Bureau of State Parks Outdoor Programming Services Division put together two lists of EE At Home activities. There is a rich mix here for parents, teachers and students to explore! 2020 List #1 - Webinars, Activities, Resources https://tinyurl.com/rfga9qn • Earth Day at 50! Progress and List #2 - More Activities, Make Your Home Green, Resources. https://tinyurl.com/vyfcq54 Challenges!

The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Wildlife Student Guide includes 58 pages of wildlife coloring pages, education facts, fun activities and more. https://tinyurl.com/sg3xzgd

The PA Conservation Heritage Project has 9 documentaries about PA conservation leaders, and initiatives free for viewing online. https:// paconservationheritage.org/documentaries/.

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to be utilized for traditional forest products (growing-stock) has dropped Pennsylvania Forests: Looking at from 95% to 91% in the last 14 years. This is generally in line with surrounding states, but the downward trend may be indicative of underutilization of the Past to See into the Future management resources by landowners. Timber harvest strategies that maximize By Tom Albright financial returns have a tendency to The U.S. Forest Service has conducted 40% of the recent net loss in forest land 2018, falling from 19% at the completion minimize the quality of residual stands. the Forest Inventory and Analysis was due to the implementation of a new of the first annual inventory cycle in 2004. In practice, these “selective harvests,” or program across the country since simplified definition of the minimum Conversely, stands over 80 years of age high-grading, remove trees of high value the 1930s with the first survey of requirements of marginal land in 2013. increased from 26% of timberland to and leave behind lower quality timber. Pennsylvania completed in 1955. Despite this recent downward turn, longer 45% in the same timeframe. The steady Not only is the stand left behind generally Subsequent periodic inventories were term trends suggest that forest land march of timberland to older age classes of lower ecological value, but future completed in 1965, 1978, and 1989, experiences ups and downs but remains is mirrored in the extent of size classes. economic value for the landowner is also requiring a wait of 10 to 15 years for steadily between 16.5 and 17 million Timberland is now 72% sawtimber by sacrificed. Combating these practices updated forest trend data. Annual acres. acreage, adding over 2 million acres in through education and outreach will be inventory began in 2000 for Pennsylvania, the past 14 years. This gain in large- critical to maintaining the high-quality ensuring a continual flow of information Of course it’s not just the amount of diameter stands, while obviously a result hardwood timber resource Pennsylvania with locations sampled every 7 years. forest land that matters, but how it is of tree growth over time, leaves just is known for. Markets for low value Summaries of forest statistics are managed that will influence the future over 1.2 million acres of small-diameter products would also help by making produced annually with comprehensive of Penn’s Woods. Private landowners seedling/sapling stands, a loss of 30% stand improvement activities more reports released every 5 years (https:// hold 11.7 million acres of forest land in since 2004. Should these trends continue, economically feasible. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/data-tools/state- the state, 70% of the total. It has been it is entirely possible that the extent of reports/PA/default.asp). estimated that the average forest holding young forest habitat could fall below Composition of the forests has been of the individual private landowner 500,000 acres in the next 3 decades, slowly changing over the decades as well. Analyzing recent trends can help us to is around 16 acres and has been squeezing those forest-dwelling species Despite the aging of the forests, at least make some educated guesses about the decreasing. Furthermore, the average age that rely on such habitat into even smaller one early successional species is on the forests of Pennsylvania’s future. See the of the forest landowner has increased areas. Loss of diversity in age class and rise. Sweet birch has increased in overall FIA Glossary (https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/ to about 61 years, indicating upcoming size class will likely have implications tree numbers by 16% since 2004 with fia/data-tools/state-reports/glossary/ changes in ownership are likely. The for tree mortality rates and forest health a 40% rise in the number of sawtimber default.asp) for details on terms used continuing pressure of parcelization going forward. trees alone. Furthermore, sweet birch is below. of the resource will have substantial the single largest component, by number implications on strategies in the future Much like the aging process in humans, a of trees, in both the 0-20 and 21-40 Forest Land Extent as smaller holdings present challenges forest’s resilience to stressors decreases year stand-age classes, accounting for to wide-scale forest management. with age. The impacts of disease and one fifth of all trees in stands up to 40 The extent of forest land has remained Small parcels bring smaller returns forest pest outbreaks will also likely be years old. This is a striking contrast to relatively stable since the 1960s, for operators and leave little room for more severe as vigor declines in aging results from 2004 when sweet birch was deviating only 500,000 acres over the last improvement activities as part of a forests. just 11% of such stands. Should these 5 decades. The downward trend in the harvest. trends hold into the future, it is easy to chart below shows a 245,000 acre loss imagine an ever-shrinking resource of since 2013, but should not be cause for While all measures of total volume have young forests marching toward near alarm just yet. Land-use change analysis Structural Trends steadily risen over past inventory cycles, monocultures of sweet birch and little (comparing land use at the plot level at The aging of timberland is such that 12% there are some trends in quality worth else. successive visits) suggests that over of its total area was 40 years old or less in noting. The proportion of timberland volume of sufficient quality and species Invasive Plant Species i Forest land: Land that has at least 10 percent crown cover by live tally trees of any size or has had at least 10 percent canopy cover of live tally species in the past, based on the presence of stumps, snags, or other evidence. To qualify, the area must be at least 1.0 acre in size and 120.0 feet wide. Forest land includes transition zones, such as areas between A regional list of 39 nonnative invasive forest and nonforest lands that meet the minimal tree stocking/cover and forest areas adjacent to urban and built—up lands. Roadside, streamside, and shelterbelt strips of trees must species and 1 undifferentiated genus are have a width of at least 120 feet and continuous length of at least 363 feet to qualify as forest land. Unimproved roads and trails, streams, and clearings in forest areas are classified as forest if they are less than 120 feet wide or less than an acre in size. Tree-covered areas in agricultural production settings, such as fruit orchards, or tree—covered areas in urban monitored on 25% of sample locations settings, such as city parks, are not considered forest land. across Pennsylvania. Between the ii Timberland: Forest land that is producing or is capable of producing crops of industrial wood and not withdrawn from timber utilization by statute or administrative regulation. (Note: cycle ending in 2011 (2007-2011) and Areas qualifying as timberland are capable of producing in excess of 20 cubic feet per acre per year of industrial wood in natural stands. Currently inaccessible and inoperable areas are included.) 2018 (2013-2018), the proportion of 30 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50 Special Feature: EARTH DAY AT 50

Pennsylvania Forests: Looking at the Past to See into the Future (Continued from page 37) sample plots having at least one invasive species rose from 57% to 64%. The Hiking has become almost a national pastime; more than 44 million people go on a hike at least once most prevalent species found remained a year and that number is increasing. When you head outdoors on a hiking adventure, you have the multiflora rose, on 49% of samples, and nonnative bush honeysuckles, on 29% of opportunity to see nature up close. While you are out there enjoying what nature has to offer, you will sampled plots and 7 points higher than want to stay kind to the animals that make their home there and do what you can to protect the great in 2011. Japanese stiltgrass and garlic outdoors. You should stay alert and be aware of how your actions can affect nature. Here are a few tips mustard were found to have substantial for looking after nature while you are hiking: increases in presence with stiltgrass found on 22% of plots (up from 14%) and • Take a reusable water bottle – About garlic mustard on 27% (up from 20%) 80 percent of plastic water bottles of plots in 2018. Given the increasing end up in the landfills. That means prevalence of invasive species over more than 38 billion water bottles are just the past decade, and the relative thrown into landfills every year. Those indifference to control among the general water bottles are made of recyclable public, it’s reasonable to assume that polyethylene terephthalate (PET) the extent and number of invasive plant plastics, but discarded in the woods species will only get worse in subsequent they break into smaller fragments over decades. time. Those fragments will pollute water supplies and contaminate soils. So, take We have no crystal ball to tell us what along a water bottle you can use time as we move forward with management Tom Albright is a Forest Inventory and our woodlands are going to look like in and time again. of our own woods and policy decisions Assessment Forester, Northern Research the coming decades. However, the above on a broader scale. Station, USDA Forest Service; he can be issues, and more, are worth considering • Make your own snacks – Mix up your reached at [email protected]. own trail mix and granola. That will cut down on waste, save you some money, and reduce packaging. You should then ® take those snacks along in reusable IS YOUR LOGGER SFI QUALIFIED? containers that you can just wash out and carry the next time.

 Since 1995, The Pennsylvania Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) • Keep Dogs Leashed - Hiking with your favorite canine is a great way to get Implementation Committee has trained more than 7,000 individuals some quality outdoors time with your through its Professional Timber Harvester Training Program. pet, however, you should always keep your dog on a leash if you’re bringing  Participants know OSHA safety requirements and have received your animal along. If your dog isn’t on a comprehensive training in forest stewardship and best management leash, it can scare other hikers, run off practices (BMPs) to protect water quality. and chase animals, dig up undergrowth, scratch up bark on trees, and cause a  Major forest land managers such as the PA Bureau of Forestry as well as lot of damage to the natural world. Even certified SFI Program Participants and other forest products companies if your dog is friendly and well-behaved, recognize the value and require their loggers to be SFI trained. Do you? a leash will protect it and keep it safe as well as protecting the woods you are hiking in. Come equipped to carry out its poop too!

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Hiking has become almost a national pastime; more than 44 million people go on a hike at least once a year and that number is increasing. When you head outdoors on a hiking adventure, you have the opportunity to see nature up close. While you are out there enjoying what nature has to offer, you will want to stay kind to the animals that make their home there and do what you can to protect the great outdoors. You should stay alert and be aware of how your actions can affect nature. Here are a few tips for looking after nature while you are hiking:

• Take a reusable water bottle – About • Stay on the trail – While it may seem • Keep any fires small – If you build a 80 percent of plastic water bottles harmless, wandering even slightly small fire for roasting marshmallows or end up in the landfills. That means off the trail can be devastating to the enjoying hot coffee, you should build the more than 38 billion water bottles are environment. Stepping off the trail will fire in a designated space with a well- thrown into landfills every year. Those crush plants and contribute to erosion. built border on a bed of dirt or ashes. water bottles are made of recyclable When other hikers see the crushed Just a single spark can cause a fire to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plants, they will follow suit and head spread quickly. Don’t risk it. plastics, but discarded in the woods the same way. When the rains come, it they break into smaller fragments over will cause wash-outs and damage the time. Those fragments will pollute water trail below. Even if there is mud, just trek supplies and contaminate soils. So, take straight through. along a water bottle you can use time Tom Albright is a Forest Inventory and and time again. • Clean up – When possible, leave the Assessment Forester, Northern Research area in even better shape than it was Station, USDA Forest Service; he can be • Make your own snacks – Mix up your when you came to visit. If you have reached at [email protected]. own trail mix and granola. That will cut trash, take it with you so you can down on waste, save you some money, dispose of it properly. If you see trash and reduce packaging. You should then left by someone else, be sure to pick it ® take those snacks along in reusable up and take it out. Trash can be life- IS YOUR LOGGER SFI QUALIFIED? containers that you can just wash out threatening to animals, and it is also and carry the next time. unsightly.

 Since 1995, The Pennsylvania Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) • Keep Dogs Leashed - Hiking with your • Leave only with memories – Don’t take favorite canine is a great way to get out any plants, pick flowers, or remove Implementation Committee has trained more than 7,000 individuals some quality outdoors time with your rocks. While it might seem like a single through its Professional Timber Harvester Training Program. pet, however, you should always keep rock or plant won’t hurt anything, it your dog on a leash if you’re bringing can. And if you remove one, odds are  Participants know OSHA safety requirements and have received your animal along. If your dog isn’t on a someone else will do the same. Don’t comprehensive training in forest stewardship and best management leash, it can scare other hikers, run off damage the area. Remember many practices (BMPs) to protect water quality. and chase animals, dig up undergrowth, animals make their home there. scratch up bark on trees, and cause a  Major forest land managers such as the PA Bureau of Forestry as well as lot of damage to the natural world. Even • Watch for wildlife – While you might certified SFI Program Participants and other forest products companies if your dog is friendly and well-behaved, only see a small creature like a recognize the value and require their loggers to be SFI trained. Do you? a leash will protect it and keep it safe chipmunk, you could encounter larger as well as protecting the woods you are animals, such as a deer. You might hiking in. Come equipped to carry out even get sight of a skunk – which is its poop too! something you definitely don’t want to approach. Always keep your distance. Tiadaghton State Forest, Lycoming County. Part Don’t frighten the wildlife. Remember, of the Black Forest Trail system, the blue-blazed you are visiting their home. Big Pine Trail visits several cascading streams and traverses a mature hemlock–white pine www.sfiofpa.org/search forest bordering Pine Creek. The trail ascends the By Eric Minghella. This article was provided by www.personalinjury-law.com, an organization dedicated Allegheny Plateau, where it joins Big Trail Road. to providing the public with information about personal injury and safety information. Nothing in this Photo credit: cc Creative Commons Public Domain article should be construed as legal advice, and it is intended for informational use only. Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 www.paforestry.org 33 John Muir: America’s Naturalist By Hope Sampson Connecting Kids to Nature

For those who do not know, John Muir Nature is a great teacher! Try this outdoor activity – it’s safe, fun, and educational. is one of the most influential people in Project Learning Tree® activities build children’s creative and critical thinking skills the history of America’s wilderness both while they learn what the environment needs to remain healthy and sustainable. directly and indirectly. He was a true mountain man, a protector of the earth, an unsung hero of the wild places. The acclaimed naturalist did not have the Bursting Buds easiest life but took advantage of every opportunity that came his way, especially In early spring, the tiny, bright green leaves of many trees burst forth. Where do the leaves Did You Know? if it could aid his effort to preserve come from? How do they form? In this activity, children will find the answers to these questions By the time a tree’s leaves drop through observation and research. in the fall, its leaves for the next our wild lands. Throughout his life he spring are already formed. Tiny embarked on many adventures around The Spring is a wonderful time to go outside. When walking through a wooded area, take a leaves, stems, and sometimes the world, but nothing held a place in his moment to draw attention to tree twigs and branches. Have children search for buds and then flowers are located in packages heart like the picturesque Sierra Nevada choose a single twig to study. Have them: called buds. Buds are made of and Yosemite of California, where he tough scales that form a waterproof case. In spring, sap rises from the spent the majority of his adult life. • Hold the branch for examination • Point out the different features they can see roots to the branches; the scales fall off the buds; and the tree’s • Gently split open a bud and examine the leaves tucked inside You see, John Muir simply loved the leaves, stems, and flowers unfurl woods. He loved everything about them. Explain that tree twigs have different identifiable parts. Children could use a digital camera- and grow. During the summer, the tree begins to develop new buds for -or sketchbook—to record what they see. Back indoors, have children draw a picture of their He cherished every sight, scent, sound, the following year. and feeling he encountered while in the twig and then use the internet or a tree identification guide to label the different parts. woods. It was this love that inspired him Finally, ask children how they think buds change into leaves. One week later, go outside again to dedicate his life to the conservation to the same tree so children can see the change. and preservation of his most beloved For a children’s science book about the structure and purpose of leaves, check out How Leaves Change by wilderness. Through his exemplary Sylvia A. Johnson, published by Lerner Publications, 1989, ISBN: 0822595133. writing he was able to spur the emotions of the public, but also appeal to the Can you identify the terminal bud; side bud; leaf scars; bud scale scar? crucial politicians and policymakers of the time. He even caught the eye of Do this word search puzzle to discover some components of a branch. Look the well-loved, conservation-oriented below for the answers. president of the time, Teddy Roosevelt. RSKRABUD Teddy had read Muir’s recently published BECNRTTI book Our National Parks and being a previous NLWAOIHW fellow wilderness-lover, he was hooked. season’s growth U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, RANORDAM In fact, he was so captivated that soon on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls. after, he and Muir set out on a three- Photo credit: US National Park Service OCHMLSEH day camping trip through Yosemite. No HSLEAFTF Secret Service agents or thoughts of Over the course of his life, Muir was he so loved. Muir’s influence sparked presidential duties, simply Roosevelt, involved in the creation of multiple lights of environmentalism in so many TABTWIGZ five mules, a cook, and John Muir. This national parks, wrote over 300 magazine Americans and continues to do so In Pennsylvania,

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the Sierra Club (which lives on today). node; leaf; flower; bud; branch; bark; Answers: Conservation and on Roosevelt. While he was already an Make Learning Fun! Natural Resources. avid conservationist, this encounter with Through his writing, John Muir was able Hope Sampson is 16, and a Junior at For more activity ideas and materials: Muir only increased his desire to protect to capture the country’s attention and Wellsboro High School in Tioga County, • Attend a PLT workshop: www.plt.org/pennsylvania America’s wilderness, and he went on to bring to light the importance of protecting PA. • Contact your Pennsylvania PLT State Coordinator: establish 148 million acres of national and preserving America’s rich natural Jean Devlin, [email protected], 717-783-0392 forest, five national parks, and 23 national resources and its wilderness that • Visit shop.plt.org www.plt.org monuments during his presidency. 34 Pennsylvania Forests - Spring 2020 ©Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. Adapted from Activity 65: Bursting Buds from Project Learning Tree’s PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide. Connecting Kids to Nature

Nature is a great teacher! Try this outdoor activity – it’s safe, fun, and educational. Project Learning Tree® activities build children’s creative and critical thinking skills while they learn what the environment needs to remain healthy and sustainable.

Bursting Buds

In early spring, the tiny, bright green leaves of many trees burst forth. Where do the leaves Did You Know? come from? How do they form? In this activity, children will find the answers to these questions By the time a tree’s leaves drop through observation and research. in the fall, its leaves for the next spring are already formed. Tiny The Spring is a wonderful time to go outside. When walking through a wooded area, take a leaves, stems, and sometimes moment to draw attention to tree twigs and branches. Have children search for buds and then flowers are located in packages choose a single twig to study. Have them: called buds. Buds are made of tough scales that form a waterproof • Hold the branch for examination case. In spring, sap rises from the • Point out the different features they can see roots to the branches; the scales fall off the buds; and the tree’s • Gently split open a bud and examine the leaves tucked inside leaves, stems, and flowers unfurl Explain that tree twigs have different identifiable parts. Children could use a digital camera- and grow. During the summer, the tree begins to develop new buds for -or sketchbook—to record what they see. Back indoors, have children draw a picture of their the following year. twig and then use the internet or a tree identification guide to label the different parts. Finally, ask children how they think buds change into leaves. One week later, go outside again to the same tree so children can see the change.

For a children’s science book about the structure and purpose of leaves, check out How Leaves Change by Sylvia A. Johnson, published by Lerner Publications, 1989, ISBN: 0822595133.

Can you identify the terminal bud; side bud; leaf scars; bud scale scar?

Do this word search puzzle to discover some components of a branch. Look below for the answers. RSKRABUD BECNRTTI previous NLWAOIHW season’s growth U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, RANORDAM on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls. Photo credit: US National Park Service OCHMLSEH he so loved. Muir’s influence sparked HSLEAFTF lights of environmentalism in so many TABTWIGZ Americans and continues to do so In Pennsylvania,

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around the world today. twig thorn; stem; shoot; scars; scales; sap; pith; the Department of Answers: bark; branch; bud; flower; leaf; node; node; leaf; flower; bud; branch; bark; Answers: Conservation and Make Learning Fun! Natural Resources. Hope Sampson is 16, and a Junior at For more activity ideas and materials: Wellsboro High School in Tioga County, • Attend a PLT workshop: www.plt.org/pennsylvania PA. • Contact your Pennsylvania PLT State Coordinator: Jean Devlin, [email protected], 717-783-0392 • Visit shop.plt.org www.plt.org

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