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  1. Good luck to all those birding the Christmas Bird Count. We appreciate your data. For info on where to go: www.audubon.org/Bird/cbc/
  2. Geminid meteor shower peaks over the weekend. Great viweing at the darkest skies in the east at Cherry Springs SP, but bundle up.
  3. Open house weeked in PA State Parks. Tour Kings Gap and Nolde Forest mansions, and have a victorian Christmas at Greenwood Furnace.
  4. Article by the Savy Grouse about staying in a cabin at Canoe Creek State Park. http://ow.ly/Hte7
  5. While doing your cyber shopping, consider buying PA State Parks gift cards for the outdoors people on your list. www.pa.reserveworld.com/
  6. In 1758 Gen Forbes and 6000 British troops reached the forks of the Ohio Rvr. The French had left. Brits build Fort Pitt (Point State Park)
  7. Welcome to French Creek State Park which was tranferred to PA from the National Park Service on this date in 1945.
  8. WTG - The Steelman Triathlon coordinators presented a $10,000 check to Make-A-Wish Foundation. This event is held anually at Nockamixon SP.
  9. Welcome to the Parker Dam State Park friends group who formed recently.
  10. 200 add. acres on the North Shore of Moraine will open for late season archery hunting Dec 26 - Jan 9. Contact the park office for info.
  11. Nice video about Cherry Springs. http://greenlifepenn.org/?p=264
  12. At Sinnemahoning, B of F released 500 small beetles, Laricobius nigrinus, to control a small outbreak of Hemlock Wooly Adelgid (HWA)
  13. Nice article about the Laurel Highlands Trail in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09319/1013263-140.stm
  14. RT @PuukoholaNP: RT @amhistorymuseum Can't hike the Appalachian Trail? Hike it online. http://ow.ly/BGqq Smithsonian virtual exhibit
  15. Leonid Meteor Shower will be peak at 3:30 am tomorrow. Cherry Springs SP would be a great plave to see them. http://tinyurl.com/c3xm6p
  16. RT @ohiopylestatepa: The F of O received two grants from the LHVB. One is towards an electronic trail towns kiosk to... http://bit.ly/pQEU4
  17. Events in PA parks this weekend: elk watching, birds of prey, backyard composting http://bit.ly/S8tsO
  18. RT @visitPA: Celebrate hunting & fishing time & u may win a gift card Tell us what u luv about PA, add #PAHunt 2 tweet. random draw 11/17.
  19. The revamped YouTube site is up. http://www.youtube.com/user/visitPAparks
  20. Water release from Nockamixon SP will create whitewater conditions this weekend at Ralph Stover SP. Nice of parks to work together.