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Win a Some Expenses Paid Trip to a Bog!

Image via Wikipedia Lottery to be Held for Annual Tour of Cranberry Bog State Nature Preserve COLUMBUS, OH – Nature enthusiasts throughout Ohio are encouraged to enter a lottery to tour Ohio’s only floating island – Cranberry Bog State Nature Preserve in Buckeye Lake – during the bog‘s annual open house from 9 a.m. to [...]

YPA Youth Education Summit Registration Deadline March 2nd

Image by L-T-L via Flickr Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that the Friends of the National Rifle Association application deadline for its upcoming Pennsylvania Youth Education Summit (YES) in Harrisburg is fast approaching. Pennsylvania high school sophomores and juniors have until March 2, to sign up for the event, which is set for April [...]

Two Things To Do Without Leaving the Computer:

Image via Wikipedia First, Shout Youngstown writes about   a lake-to-river bike trail that will go through Mill Creek Park and connect YSU with the Park. What a great idea! Last summer, during the gas crisis, I linked to an article about bike commuting and an organization in Denver that promoted a “Bike to Work” day. [...]

Pennsylvania Trapper Snares New York Coyote

Image via Wikipedia Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife officials are gaining new information about wildlife movements from a State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry research project, as an eastern coyote was caught in a Commonwealth trapper’s cable restraint in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County.  According to SUNY officials, this particular coyote [...]