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Summer Camp 2024
June 10 – August 23
Wildlands Conservancy Summer Camp 2024 – Where Tomorrow’s Environmental Stewards Take Root – New Friends and Lasting Memories Made in Nature!! Select from 10 WEEKS OF FUN offered at our Dorothy Rider Pool Wildlife Sanctuary (Emmaus), Hopewell Park (Center Valley), and Lone Lane Park (Allentown).
BE AN EARLY BIRD – Get 10% off if register online before May 1 ! This year, your family can look forward to:
- Special guests including Elmwood Park Zoo and Joshua Tree
- Family Fun Fridays with campfires, water games, and more
- Two weeks of our popular outdoor skills
- Three weeks of our popular water camps
For details and to register, please visit: https://www.wildlandspa.org/camp/.
Program Questions? Contact Denise Bauer DBauer@wildlandspa.org.
Registration Questions? Contact Arianna Kohler, AKohler@wildlandspa.org.
Community & Educational Calendar of Events for April 2024
April 7
Wildlands Conservancy – Get Out! for Wellness: Swiftwater Forest Preserve – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at Swiftwater Forest Preserve, 239 Donaldson Rd, Cresco, PA 18326. Join us, hiking through softwoods and spring flowers for about 2.5 miles in these 98 acres of woodland owned by Paradise Township, highlighting our work on an erosion project. Questions? Contact Arianna Kohler, AKohler@wildlandspa.org. Event is free; please register on-line at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 9
Wildlands Conservancy – Pre-K Pathfinders: Botany, Trexler Nature Preserve – 10:00 am – 11:00 am at Trexler Environmental Center, 4935 Orchard Rd., Schnecksville, PA 18078. For children ages 3-5 and their grown-ups: April Showers bring May Flowers. Together we will look at how plants grow, and you will leave with your own seeds to grow at home! Questions? Contact Arianna Kohler, AKohler@wildlandspa.org. Event is free; please register on-line at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 13
Wildlands Conservancy – Wildlife of the Watershed: Seasonal Series 4/13/24 – 10:00 am – 11:30 am at Dorothy Rider Pool Wildlife Sanctuary (DRPWS), 3701 Orchid Place, Emmaus, PA 18049. Spring is in the air! Join us and learn all about the native wildlife of the Lehigh Valley: seasonal wildlife migration, offspring, and behavioral changes. Afterwards, take a binocular hike around the Sanctuary, looking for signs of wildlife and listening for bird songs. Questions? Contact Haley D’Agostino at HDAgostino@wildlandpa.org. For ages 6 and up. There is a fee; please register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 13
Wildlands Conservancy – Get Out! for Wellness: Bear Swamp Boardwalk and Minsi Lake – 10:00 am – 12:00 pm at Bear Swamp Boardwalk and Minsi Lake, 1280 Lake Minsi Drive, Bangor, PA 18013. We will hike through a pleasant forest in Upper Mount Bethel Township, then cross Lake Minsi Drive to the Boardwalk around Bear Swamp to view turtles, frogs, tadpoles and spring flowers. Then we’ll drive east to Minsi Lake’s western parking lot for viewing of swallows, great blue herons, and butterflies. Questions? Contact: Arianna Kohler, AKohler@wildlandspa.org. Event is free; please register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 20
Wildlands Conservancy – Get Out! for Wellness: Wildlands’ Black River Sanctuary – 10:00 am – 12:00 pm at Wildlands Conservancy’s Black River Sanctuary, 1310 Black River Road, Bethlehem PA 18015. Wildlands Conservancy recently bought 187 acres across the road from Franko Farm Recreation Area. We will take a 3 mile hike, accessing fine views of the Lehigh Valley; this area is a stopover for migrating birds.. Questions? Contact: Arianna Kohler, AKohler@wildlandspa.org. Event is free; please register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 21
Wildlands Conservancy – 2024 Earth Day Planting at Louise Moore Park – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at Louise Moore Park, 151 Country Club Road, Easton, PA 18045. For children ages 3-5 and their grownups! Celebrate Earth Day! Join Kate Ebel, Senior Restoration Ecologist at Wildlands Conservancy on a conservation tour of Louise Moore Park followed by a spring planting. Gloves and shovels provided. Questions? Contact: Nicole Landis, Nlandis@wildlandspa.org. Event is free thanks to funding from Northampton Cty. Pre-registration is required; register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 25
Wildlands Conservancy – PreK Pathfinders: Habitat Heroes, Wayne Grube Park – 10:00 am – 12:00 am at Wayne A. Grube Park, 1200 Willowbrook Road, Northampton, PA 18067. For children ages 3-5 and their grownups! Join us for an interactive story walk that will take you on a journey through the forest to save your local wildlife, just in time for Earth Day! During our adventure meet some native wildlife, earn the title of Habitat Hero, and receive your own Habitat Hero Badge. Questions? Contact: Nicole Landis, Nlandis@wildlandspa.org. Event is free thanks to funding from Northampton Cty. Pre-registration is required; register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 27
Wildlands Conservancy – Beginners Guide to Camping, Trexler Nature Preserve – 10:00 am – 12:00 pm at Trexler Nature Preserve- Environmental Education Center, 4935 Orchard Road, Schnecksville, PA 18078. For all ages: Join Wildlands Conservancy for a daytime campout. Learn how to pitch a tent, start a campfire and other basic skills you need to survive a night outdoors. Questions? Contact: Arianna Kohler, AKohler@wildlandspa.org. Event is free thanks to funding from Lehigh Cty. Please register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 27
Wildlands Conservancy – Backyard Naturalist: Arbor Day – 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm at Dorothy Rider Pool Wildlife Sanctuary (DRPWS), 3701 Orchid Place, Emmaus, PA 18049. Join us for an Arbor Day celebration! Learn to identify Pennsylvania native trees and go on a hunt for wildflowers. Join us afterwards for a tree tea taste test! Questions? Contact Haley D’Agostino at HDAgostino@wildlandpa.org. For ages 6 and up. There is a fee; please register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
April 28
Wildlands Conservancy – Get Out for Wellness: Wildlands’ Maple Tract Preserve – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at Wildlands Conservancy’s Maple Tract Preserve, 271 Stoney Hollow Road, Long Pond, PA 18334. The Preserve’s trails roll up evergreen hiblack riverlls and down into rhododendron-filled valleys. These glacial wetlands are fragile and uncommon ecosystems. Join us on this 2-4 mile hike. Leashed dogs welcome. Questions? Contact: Arianna Kohler, AKohler@wildlandspa.org. Event is free; please register online at: https://www.wildlandspa.org/events/.
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