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September/October 2010 Trailblazer Oregon Ridge Nature Center Council 13555 Beaver Dam Road NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE Cockeysville, MD 21030 PAID TIMONIUM, MD PERMIT NO. 120 SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2010 Supporting Oregon Ridge Park TRAILBLAZERand Nature Center for 28 years Is YourCurrent? Membership 2009-2010: A YEAR IN PROGRESS By ORNCC President Jack Kerns Return Service Requested SOME FAMILIAR FACES FROM 2009-2010 During the past year, Oregon Ridge Nature Center has The Oregon Ridge Nature Center Council is now making made significant improvements to its physical facilities and final design decisions on new animal displays for the Nature has undertaken commitments to improve its animal displays. Center. The current animal display room will be completely These improvements have been possible due to the efforts of altered by incorporating adjustable wall panels (Views 1 & 2, many groups and individuals who provided hours of volunteer center photo) that will make it easier for children to view the time for our enjoyment. exhibits as well as improve animal care. These renovations On June 1, 2010, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held to will greatly enhance the attractiveness and usefulness of the celebrate the final completion of the gypsy moth and American animal displays. A new tree exhibit planned for the main Carol and Andy Anders entertain at the Picnic chestnut tree interpretive displays, including the new gazebo. hall will enhance our understanding and appreciation of the Vernon Kreisel, Jeanne Cole, Pam Jarrell, Jim Curtis, This resting facility for hikers overlooks the area affected by critical role played by our native forest. During the past year, Shannon Davis, and Erin McCleary at ribbon cutting gypsy moth infestation and is also near the American chestnut we added a coyote, red-tailed hawk, bear, and heron to our saplings. Mr. Vernon Kreisel, the representative from REI, display collection. We thank the Display Committee and joined in the ceremony (photo above) for the new displays as committee chair Joe Warfield for their tireless efforts to create well as the new portal over the bridge that welcomes visitors new and exciting educational displays. on their hikes. We thank REI for their generous contributions The Baltimore County Master Gardeners have renovated Ann Kerns and Anne Canoles and continuing support of Oregon Ridge Park. We also thank the herb garden and replaced it with a series of gardens grill dogs at picnic REI for the opportunity to participate in their “Get Involved” reflecting the historical evolution of gardening in the United George and Karen Brauer event, held at REI in Timonium, and to showcase the many States. Flowers from pre-colonial times to the present are open the Museum programs available at Oregon Ridge. (Continued on page 10) Trail Guide Cindy Barretta goes native Oregon Ridge Nature Center & Park Council, 410-887-1815; [email protected]; www.oregonridge.org; TDD/Deaf 410-887-5319 Page 2 Sept/Oct 2010 Sept/Oct 2010 Page 11 ORNC COUNCIL SPEAKER SERIES EQUATORIAL AFRICA AND THE KENYAN BEEHIVE Monday, September 20, 7:30 PM After graduating from Elon University with a degree in how to work with the African honeybees, which are not as Communications and Business, Dan Quinn began a journey notorious as the Africanized Killer Bees that cause problems in less traveled by joining the Peace Corps. Before long, he was America. headed for Central Africa to a remote village in the highlands The Kenya top-bar hives were developed as a lower- of Cameroon. In his presentation, Dan cost alternative to standard hives. Their will recount his 2-1/2 years living in movable frames make use of the concept TIG GET HT W the village of Bandrefam, where he was of bee space. The frames of the hive have IT IN NOW adopted into the tribe and took the only a top bar, with no sides or bottom bar, H JO ! NA name of Sa’a Dio, a high honor placing from which the bees build the comb so it T U him among the village nobles (photo). His hangs down. The hive body is often shaped R E primary responsibility was agro forestry as an inverted trapezoid in order to reduce ! — the growing and propagating of trees the tendency of bees to attach the comb to such as banana, papaya, breadfruit, the hive-body walls. avocado, and black fruit. He also wrote Dan Quinn is the son of Winnie and grants and received funds to develop Kirk Dreier and was once a Ridge Runner the Kenyan beehive project. As project facilitator, Dan at Oregon Ridge. Don’t miss his fascinating PowerPoint helped build Kenya top-bar beehives from scratch, acquired presentation about his modern day journey into the heart of beekeeping equipment, and then showed his village co-op the Dark Continent. OREGON RIDGE NATURE CENTER COUNCIL 10 PAIN FREE Ways TO CUT YOUR UTILITY BILLS AND CARBON EMISSIONS BY 10% OR MORE MEMBERS RECEIVE: Monday, October 18, 7:30 PM • Bimonthly Newsletter • Priority Mailing of Seasonal Calendar Climate change, national energy security, tight family the costs of energy improvements? • First Option for Camp Registration budgets — never in recent history has there been such a wide Local home energy expert Kurt Pfund will answer these • 10% off Gift Shop purchases $30+ range of reasons to trim our home energy and other questions, and by the end of the • Members Only Events consumption. American buildings consume evening, you should have the knowledge to more energy and produce more emissions trim your annual utility costs and carbon than automobiles, and about a third to half emissions by at least 10%, with very little of the energy used for heating or cooling a initial expenditure and no drastic changes LOW, YEARLY DUES: typical single-family home is wasted due to to your lifestyle. In addition to the Q&A air leakage and system inefficiencies. session about home energy usage, some • Individual $15 Fortunately, a great variety of technologies listeners will be able to participate in a hands- • Family $20 and stimulus programs are available to combat on demonstration of some of the latest home • Seniors/Students $12 this waste and assist homeowners to make energy auditing technologies, including a • Lifetime $150 their homes healthier, more comfortable, and blower door fan and infrared camera. more durable. But it can be challenging to stay Kurt Pfund, a former Ridge Runner at current with the technologies and programs. the Nature Center, studied at the University Full Name ________________________________________________________ What is the difference, for example, between of Maryland and is now a certified Building Address ________________________________ State _____ Zip _________ a CFL and a LED? What is the best way to Analyst and co-founder of Zerodraft Phone _____________________ Email ________________________________ air-seal a home and when do you know when Maryland, an energy auditing and retrofitting it is too airtight? When is whole-house mechanical ventilation consultancy based in Towson. When not tuning up buildings, Checks to ORNC Council, 13555 Beaver Dam Road, Cockeysville, Maryland 21030 a desirable solution? Do solar power and geothermal heat make he enjoys reading, gardening, and hiking/skiing on trails at the 410 887-1815 [email protected] http://www.oregonridge.org/ financial sense? And what kinds of credits are available to offset Ridge and beyond. Page 10 Sept/Oct 2010 Sept/Oct 2010 Page 3 (2009-10 - A Year in Progress, continued) TRAIL GUIDES ARE “WONDER” FULL included in the garden appropriately designated “A Garden Over twenty applicants applied to our Scholarship Program. Walk Through Time.” The native species of plants and shrubs The Scholarship Committee, chaired by Dr. Polly Roberts, demonstrate a truly “green” garden where pest management, confronted the challenge of selecting from this large group of One of the primary goals at the Oregon Ridge Nature attraction to birds and butterflies, resistance to deer and very qualified, college-bound high school seniors, representing Center is to guide as many children as possible along park other predators, and noninvasive the Baltimore County and Baltimore City area, who are trails to expose them to the marvels of the trees, insects, qualities have been incorporated planning to pursue courses of study in the environmental birds, streams, and wildflowers that inhabit this wonderland. to enhance the beauty and joy of sciences and nature education. Donations to the scholarship Wonder is exactly what many of these kids experience because gardening. A descriptive display of fund have made it possible to help these young people in their they are often seeing nature in abundance for the first time. this new garden has been located studies, and we thank everyone who has given so generously. Trail Guides are key to successfully accomplishing this goal, in the Nature Center Library and Staff and volunteers from ORNC got to show off their and in exchange for their gift of time, they receive a gift in provides more detailed information patriotic pride at this year’s Towson 4th of July parade (front return — Wonder. The wonder that overwhelms children at regarding the advantages of native page)! Everyone pitched in to decorate Director Courtney Peed’s their first sight of a Pileated Woodpecker, a salamander, or a plants, the use of composting, and Volkswagen Beetle in praying mantis is more contagious than H1N1. Trail Guides methods of pest control. We thank red, white and blue. catch it immediately. the Master Gardeners for their Bookmarks and candy If you would like to catch the wonder, please join us for efforts to improve and maintain were handed out to the Trail Guide Training this fall beginning Tuesday, September 7, from 10 AM to 1 PM. Training continues for four consecutive the garden and display.
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