For Pride Month, we’ve partnered with Penn State’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (CSGD) to take a look at how a nature center can support our LGBTQ+ community.
The Naturalist Notebook
Welcome to the Shaver’s Creek blog! The entries here are posted by staff, interns, and volunteers, and aim to keep you informed about the programs, updates, and natural history happenings here at the Creek. Enjoy!
Learn how you can contribute handwritten letters and artwork to Lenny’s memorial and help continue the important work that he began.
This year’s fundraising efforts will play a critical role in enhancing grassland habitat at the Musser Gap Greenway.
Join us in recognizing the retirement of Mark McLaughlin, Director of Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center.
Community nature journaling has become a well-known and consistent staple of our offerings at Shaver’s Creek. It is the perfect embodiment of both halves of the nature center’s longstanding mission: connecting people to nature and people to people.
This month, we are highlighting some of the Black voices that have impacted and inspired the work we do at our nature center. This mosaic of leaders, from historical figures to personal connections, are just a drop in the ocean of Black leaders that are changing the outdoors for the better.
Mike Toolan is the Musser Gap conservation director and is overseeing the implementation of Penn State’s plan for this important connection between State College and Rothrock State Forest.
We’re shining a light on early successional habitat in this third blog post in a three-part series all about our local PA habitats. Early successional habitat is diverse, featuring species from both grasslands and forests, and is beneficial in many ways.
Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center brought The Lost Bird Project to central Pennsylvania in 2021. Immortalizing five North American birds in sculpture, this project serves not only as a dramatic reminder of the biodiversity lost due to human activity, but of our duty to prevent further extinction.
We’re shining a light on forests in this second blog post in a three-part series all about our local PA habitats. Forests are the largest terrestrial ecosystems on the planet and thrive in many different climatic and topographic conditions.