The annual Paddle and River Clean Up for high school students happens June 8, on the Upper Delaware River. Students will earn eight community service hours for graduation while experiencing the beauty of the river and learning about the local watershed, wildlife, and recreation. This year’s clean up trip is limited to the first twenty [...]
A robotic, remote control grass cutter, trimming local road side ditches, may be the strange result of a tragic death in North Carolina. In May, 63-year-old Dana Bruce, a National Park Service maintenance worker, died while cutting grass along the Blue Ridge Parkway when his riding mower fell more than 140 feet down a [...]
When Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Superintendent John Donahue advised the public to follow the park on Twitter at a recent Delaware Township supervisors meeting, Supervisor Tom Ryan blurted out what a few people were probably thinking. “We’re paying the federal government to tweet?” Ryan asked. Donahue explained that Twitter use by the National Park [...]
If a public notice about a gas pipeline is published and nobody understands it, was the public really notified? Legally, yes. But in reality many people don’t even realize they should be looking for public notices. When they do, it is not always clear that the notice is relevant to them. For example, in November [...]
Paddlers may still register for The 18th Annual Delaware River Sojourn, held from Sunday, June 24 through Saturday, June 30. The early bird registration discount of $10 per day has been extended through June 22. The Delaware Sojourn is a guided paddling, learning, and camping adventure on and along the wild and scenic Delaware [...]
The National Park Service has not received any proposals in response to the request for proposals for a 10-year lease for the Cliff Park Inn hotel, restaurant and golf course. The lease holder would pay a dollar a year and fund an estimated $1 million in repairs to the Inn. “We continue to make [...]
The Pennsylvania Game Commission starts its annual sale of bluebird nesting boxes Monday. The boxes cost $9.54 which includes sales tax. Shipping is extra. Customers may choose assembled boxes or kits that can be assembled as a wood-working project. “Bluebirds are early nesters, so now is the time to put up new nest boxes, as [...]
The National Park Service recently held a press conference at Childs Park in Dingmans Ferry to show the progress of its $2.5 million enhancement project which has the park closed until spring 2012. The Park Service has had many phone calls asking about the park and has even noticed a few people entering the park [...]
