The Visitor Center and Klingsberg Aviary will be closed to visitors from December 22, 2024, through January 22, 2025.

My walk with Ellory

My son Ellory visited Shaver’s Creek today, and we took a walk in the woods to find out what the summer campers were up to. Along the way we heard Scarlet Tanager, Ovenbird, Black-throated Green Warbler and Red-eyed Vireo singing. When we caught up to the campers, they were ankle deep in Shaver’s Creek staying…

Goodbye, Spring 2010 Interns!

Wishing our departing intern staff the best of luck on their future endeavors.  Pictured clockwise from top left are the spring 2010 interns; Alyssa Thiel, Elizabeth McMahon, Lauren Seiler, Lisa Scarbrough, Lauren Chain, Daniel Hontz, Jordan Aoyama, and Elise Hagenberger. 

Season’s End – Spring 2010

The spring interns were hard at work in their final week at Shaver’s Creek; backpacking, teaching, and practicing animal handling. Pictured are: 1) (clockwise) Lauren Chain, Ryan Elliot, Ashley Williams, Lauren Seiler, Alyssa Thiel, and Lisa Scarbrough at the start of their backpacking course over Memorial Day weekend.  The interns (and friends) hiked and camped…

More Birds of Central PA books are in!

I’m glad to report that we’ve restocked the shelves of our bookstore with 10 more autographed copies of Nick Bolgiano and Greg Grove’s Birds of Central Pennsylvania, after the first 10 sold in a flash. The book includes wonderful descriptions, maps, graphics and species accounts of the best birding around these parts! You can also…

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:…