Shaver's Creek Environmental Center will be closed until further notice due to an ongoing power outage from the storm on April 29.

Penn State Stone Valley Forest birds

Paul Brigman and I spent two hours birding a corner of Penn State’s Stone Valley Forest this morning. We started the day in Masseyburg, along “Watershed Road” (listed on Google Maps as “Unnamed Forest Road”). In the large young pine plantation along the east side of the road, highlights included: Yellow-breasted Chat (1-2) Indigo Bunting…

Check out this green.psu.edu article on Invasive Plants!

You are here: home »news & events Invasive Plants Threaten PA Biodiversity, Shaver’s Creek Responds Over the past two decades, an unprecedented increase in international trade has introduced an equally unprecedented number of non-native plant species to the U.S.. Some of these varieties thrive and multiply at an unnatural rate here, in the absence  of…

Leave No Trace Trainer Course at Shaver’s Creek

Leave No Trace Trainer Course.docx Download this file Leave No Trace Trainer Course hosted by Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center Introductory Meeting: 5:30-7:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Weekend trip: 9:00 a.m. Saturday, May 29, to 3:00 p.m. Sunday, May 30, 2010 All meetings at Shaver’s Creek INSTRUCTOR: Leave No Trace Master Educator Rob Andrejewski COURSE COSTS:…

Envirothon group @ShaversCreek

On April 29th we had a nice Envirothon group of 5th and 6th graders visit from Everett Area Elementary in Bedford County. Here are some pictures from their day here. While they were here, they watched a Bird of Prey show, went on a natural history walk, and got their feet wet as they studied…

Shaver’s Creek May 5th Bird Walk

A pleasant morning to be out on our almost finished accessible trail to the boardwalk. Our group of 21 enjoyed hearing the newly returned migrants like scarlet tanager, red-eyed vireo and wood thrush (I wish I could add “seeing” them). Catbirds are back in force along the boardwalk trail and we have 2 active chickadee…

The Birding Cup results are in!

The Birding Cup, Shaver’s Creek’s annual fund-raising tournament was this past weekend. From Friday, April 30, at 7:00 p.m., through Saturday, May 1, at 7:00 p.m., 18 teams of over 80 birders competed to identify the most number of bird species in a twenty-four-hour period in the central Pennsylvania region. For the third year in…