The PA Alliance for Geographic Education is excited to announce that National Geographic has designed and generously donated a State Giant Map of Pennsylvania to the PA Alliance.  This giant map (approximately 22 x 14 feet) is FREE to use by teachers, museums, libraries, and other non-profit groups.

The Friends of Wildwood Park is sponsoring a winter lecture series on Pennsylvania conservationists:  Rachel Carson, Gifford Pinchot, Ned Smith,
Maurice Goddard, and the Craigheads. Free admission, and no pre-registration is necessary-- see the events schedule for details and other activities at the Park.

January 6, 2015

From PA's DCRN Wild Resource Conservation Program  --  The Fall 2014 issue of Keystone Wild!Notes is now available. This month's issue defines what an "endemic" is and determines if Pennsylvania has any; meets new editor and DCNR Bureau of Forestry Ecological Services Section Chief Rebecca Bowen; zooms in on isotopes; examines Pennsylvania's carnvorous plants; sizees up recent red spruce restoration efforts; and much more.