SFI Grant Helps Audubon New York Link Forest Management to Bird Conservation

06/06/11 WASHINGTON, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New York program of the National Audubon Society has received a Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) conservation grant to build a stronger link between bird conservation and forest management along the Atlantic Flyway.

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Adrian, Julian Riester, New York-born Twin Friars, Passed Away on the Same Day at Age 92

06/04/11 Adrian, Julian Riester Image Credit: St. Bonaventure University Beth Eberth Adrian and Julian Riester, the Buffalo-born twin friars died Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at St. Anthony Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida after living together for 92 years, according to reports by several international news sites. The identical twins both died of heart failure, Brother Julian [...]

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Volunteers needed to remove invasive species at Presque Isle

06/03/11 Presque Isle Audubon and Audubon Pennsylvania need volunteers to help remove invasive bittersweet and honeysuckle shrubs in areas of Presque Isle State Park where bird banding takes places.

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Community calendar

06/03/11 Breakfast, 6 to 10 a.m., Amberson Community Center, 19289 Amberson Road. Cascade, Md. Reunion, descendants of George Washington and Clara Wilhide Ridge, noon, Pen Mar Park, 11400 Pen Mar High Rock Road. To register, call Lauren Hoover at (301) 797-5244 or Julie Rinehart at (301) 797-8565.

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Franklin County area community calendar of events

06/03/11 Race Against Poverty 5K Run/Walk, at King and Main streets; register at 7; walk starts at 7:30 and run at 8 a.m.; benefits Circles of Franklin County.

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News in brief for Thursday, June 2

06/02/11 Penn State Extension Master Gardeners in Adams County will hold a Garden Day at their trial garden in Gettysburg, Saturday, June 11.

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Orchard Friends School looks to expand

05/31/11 RIVERTON - Orchard Friends School is expanding its educational programs.

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Outdoors Calendar, Week beginning May 31

05/31/11 TUESDAY Pennsylvania spring gobbler season ends. Chickies history in pictures program, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.,  Chickies Rock County Park Day Use Area's Pavilion 42 in East Donegal Twp.     For all ages. Join naturalist Andy Yoder for a slide presentation featuring historical phot...

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Something to tweet about: Newtown Township applies for Bird Town status

05/28/11 NEWTOWN - Newtown Township could become the first township in Bucks County to join Bird Town, a program of Audubon Pennsylvania that encourages conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats.

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Environment Erie forum to address urban water quality

05/24/11 Urban water quality will be the focus of a forum today at the Tom Ridge Environment Center, 301 Peninsula Drive.

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Silver Creek celebrates 25 t h by celebrating Donald Ross

05/24/11 Among the 400-plus golf courses Donald Ross designed before his death in 1948 was a hillside track in Hellertown born from Bethlehem Steel. In fact, it was among the last courses the legendary architect visited.

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Dizzying falls

05/21/11 Ahh, the Tubs.The name of Luzerne County's natural area along Wheelbarrow Run conjures images of wash basins.Legend has it that teenagers used to drag their new blue jeans through the chutes of water to soften the denim before manufacturers "stonewashe

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Audubon Center's native plants on sale

05/20/11 Construction Junction sells native plants grown by another nonprofit, the Audubon Center for Native Plants at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve in Fox Chapel.

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Audubon-Oaks Lions Club celebrates 60th year of service

05/18/11 The Audubon-Oaks Lions Club celebrated its 60th year of service at a dinner at the Bay Pony Inn, Lederach.

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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Celebrations: Music of Andrew Rudin on June 14, 2011- 7:30 PM (NYC)

05/18/11 Symphony Space&#151leonard nimoy theatre, 95th and broadway, nyc -$25; Members, Students, Seniors $15 This is a concert celebrating the chamber music of Andrew Rudin. It features his Overture-Rondo for two pianos (Duo Stephanie and Saar), Celebrations for two pianos and percussion (Duo Stephanie and Sarr and Anthony Orlando), and Museum Pieces for piano solo (Beth Levin), the Sonata for violin ...

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Teams scour North Jersey to sight birds

05/15/11 As many as 280 species of birds roost in the New Jersey Meadowlands, and in the swampy wetlands section Saturday, their twittering almost drowned out the hum of nearby Route 3 traffic.

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Game commission defends deer management

05/13/11 Criticism is off target according to press secretary By Jerry Feaser

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World's most valuable book has Penn Forest ties

05/07/11 In 1829, when visitors were flocking to Mauch Chunk and Penn Forest to marvel at the Switchback Gravity Railroad and the Lehigh Navigation System, products of the burgeoning coal mining industry, one man was on a mission to paint its birds.

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May offers much to do in the Valley Backyard Tourist

05/05/11 Hello neighbors. May is finally here. It's time to get outside to discover, stretch and explore. With the price of gas changing almost daily, we believe that the fun and events found in the Susquehanna River Valley offer great value and convenience, whet

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Region's first large-scale wind farm planned in North East

05/05/11 NORTH EAST -- A Texas-based energy company plans to build the Erie region's first large-scale wind farm. Pioneer Green Energy, of Austin, Texas, is leasing property in North East Township to develop a wind farm that could encompass up to 7,000 acres of farmland south of Interstate 90.

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