Save the Date: 2012 Eastern PA Greenways & Trails Summit

September 19th and 20th 

DeSales University 

Center Valley, PA

Join Eastern Pennsylvania’s trail and greenway community for a two-day summit highlighting regional trail initiatives, real-world solutions to trail issues, best practices and innovative case studies from across the region, need-to-know information for your trail, and a half-day of hands-on field experiences. Audubon and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy will be participating in a panel focused on Land Preservation for Trail and Viewshed.  Visit Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor's web site for more information.

Celebrate Bald Eagle's Recovery in in PA

Bald Eagle sighted on Haldeman Island.  Photo: Kathy Burd Bauer.

Bill Uhlrich of the Reading Eagle reports the amazing recovery of the bald eagle and its nesting expansion into Berks County - now with five active nesting pairs in the county and over 25 adults and young counted.  

Read the full article here:
Bill Uhlrich: Celebrate Bald Eagle's recovery in state

Another nesting site along the Kittatinny Ridge and Corridor is on Haldeman Island (State Game Land 290) in Dauphin County, an island along the Susquehanna River just north of its confluence with the Juniata River.  Closed to public access.  PA Game Commission Land Management Supervisor, Scott Bills, recently led a birdwatching hike in conjunction with Duncannon Borough's Appalachian Trail Community celebration where new birders were able to view the nesting site and treated to a few scenes of soaring adult bald eagles above.