Thursday, February 14, 2013
Volunteers are needed for the yearly toad migration.
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- Nate Adams
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Thursday, February 14
Want to help Roxborough's toads in their yearly migration across Port Royal Avenue? Here’s your chance. The Schuykill Center for Environmental Education is hosting a toad detour volunteer orientation at its Hagys Mill headquarters Saturday. Potential volunteers will learn about toads and toad handling and will be asked to sign up for shifts to help shepard toads across Roxborough once the migration period begins. The center is looking for volunteers to run from March until June. The training session will be at 1p.m., Saturday, at 8480 Hagys Mill Road. Check out more information here.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Schuylkill Center offers walking tours and volunteer opportunities involving toad migration.
The early spring means one thing for Shawmont residents—the toads are moving. An annual tradition, frogs and toads began migrating in March, and the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education has helped them along. For the first year, the environmental group has coordinated volunteer shifts to aid the toads crossing roads in route from the center's pond to the Upper Roxborough Reservoir. The group has always educated the public through walking tours, but following a prominent resident's departure from the region, the Schuylkill Center began volunteer shifts, too. "It's made a lot of sense. They are coming out of our woods of about 340 acres and going along the road. We certainly can help them out," said Claire Morgan from Schuylkill …
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The project that aims to protect migrating toads, was adopted by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education earlier this month.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Jesse Reilly
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education has officially adopted the Toad Detour, a release from the ceter stated. The Toad Detour is "a well established volunteer project to protect toads as they migrate to and from the Roxborough Reservoir each spring," the release continued, adding that adoption comes after Toad Detour Director Lisa Levinson announced that she was relocating to California. The announcement was made Dec. 10 in conjunction with the first public screening of the Toad Detour Documentary, a film by Burgess Coffield profiling the project’s history and success. After the screening, Levinson presented the Schuylkill Center with a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of the Toad Detour. The DETOUR Project (Detour for …
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jeff trader
3:27 am on Monday, February 18, 2013
kevin, to people who have much free time on their hands, and can help both people and toads, then philanthropy is not a zero sum game. for the rest of us who have LIMITED time, (i.e. people who work 50 hours per week and have families and children), we have to prioritize. and naturally, if one prioritizes, it's clear that helping toads should take a back seat to helping people. it was my mistake … more ›