Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Help baby toads cross the road at the Roxborough Reservoir.
Two months after 2,000 adult toads crossed the road to mate in Upper Roxborough, the toadlets are ready to make their first move. Starting Tuesday night, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education will help the finger-nail sized baby toads leave the nest at the Upper Roxborough Reservoir and head into the woods. From 7 to 9 p.m. from May 15 to June 30, volunteers will nightly close Port Royal Avenue from Hagy’s Mill Road to Eva Street, and Eva Street from Port Royal Avenue to Summit Avenue, according to Claire Morgan from the Schuylkill Center. Morgan said the spring commute went well, and hopes the toadlet march will have similar success. "Our largest count came on March 20 (the first day of spring) with over 700 toads counted …
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, February 22, 2012
Master Naturalists discuss program upcoming at Schuylkill Center
Nobody does interconnectivity like Pennsylvania Master Naturalists. “Everything is connected," the health of our streams, birds, insects, rain, weeds, parks, roads, geology of the watersheds, according to Janet Boys of Mt. Airy, a certified Master Naturalist since 2010. “Everybody lives downstream from somebody else." Boys calls herself a lifelong learner, and a “vibrant 62.” She has been instrumental in creating a rain garden as a method of stormwater management in the Vernon Park Improvement Project in Germantown. By channeling rain water off impervious surfaces and into soil lush with appropriate plantings, Philadelphia citizens can minimize the terrible pollution that takes place when excess storm water disrupts and overrides sanitary…
Lucy Bennett
2:10 am on Friday, March 30, 2012
Has anyone taken one of the walking tours? They sound interesting. more ›