Tag: Ursids
This weeks blog post is written by Freya, especially for Halloween! Read on…if you dare! Not Very Sleepy Hollows “There is a tree that’s standing still though it is dead, it has its fill of things that hoot and crawl and creep at night, when you are fast asleep. Inside the burnt out hole is …
Julie, an Ursids alumni, writes about fishing with her father over the summer in this week’s blog post. As the weather gets a little chiller every day, it’s nice to remember the warmer days of summer! Over the summer my dad and I try to go out fishing as often as possible and as early …
Logan, a student and ATL of our Bucktails and Ursids camps, gives us a little background on the Elk in Pennsylvania in this weeks blog post. He also got some great pictures of the elk on a visit to Benezette: The Eastern Elk that call Pennsylvania home weren’t always in Pennsylvania. The elk population was …
This blog post is written by one of our Monthly Youth Blog Correspondents, Freya, an alumni of our Bucktails and Ursids field schools. She writes about her search for the black bear in Itasca State Park, Minnesota. She also included some of her original artwork – very impressive! Unlike some of you lucky folks, I …
This post is brought to us by Gabriel, an Ursids alumni – he writes about an exotic animal he had a chance to see and photograph. The Nile Hippo, H. a. amphibius, is native to, you guessed it, the Nile River, stretching to Tanzania and Mozambique. Hippopotamus derives from Greek, hippos– meaning horse and potamos– …
Tag: Ursids
Not Very Sleepy Hollows
Posted: October 27, 2015 by Katie Cassidy
This weeks blog post is written by Freya, especially for Halloween! Read on…if you dare! Not Very Sleepy Hollows “There is a tree that’s standing still though it is dead, it has its fill of things that hoot and crawl and creep at night, when you are fast asleep. Inside the burnt out hole is …
Category: Youth Blog Tags: Bucktails, inspiration, journaling, outdoors, Pennsylvania, photography, reports from the field, Ursids, wildlife, youth
Summer Fishing
Posted: October 20, 2015 by Katie Cassidy
Julie, an Ursids alumni, writes about fishing with her father over the summer in this week’s blog post. As the weather gets a little chiller every day, it’s nice to remember the warmer days of summer! Over the summer my dad and I try to go out fishing as often as possible and as early …
Category: Youth Blog Tags: creative arts, fish, journaling, nature observation, PA state parks, Ursids, youth
Elk In Pennsylvania
Posted: October 13, 2015 by Katie Cassidy
Logan, a student and ATL of our Bucktails and Ursids camps, gives us a little background on the Elk in Pennsylvania in this weeks blog post. He also got some great pictures of the elk on a visit to Benezette: The Eastern Elk that call Pennsylvania home weren’t always in Pennsylvania. The elk population was …
Category: Youth Blog Tags: Bucktails, elk, PA state parks, Pennsylvania, Ursids, youth
Searching for the Black Bears of Itasca
Posted: October 6, 2015 by Katie Cassidy
This blog post is written by one of our Monthly Youth Blog Correspondents, Freya, an alumni of our Bucktails and Ursids field schools. She writes about her search for the black bear in Itasca State Park, Minnesota. She also included some of her original artwork – very impressive! Unlike some of you lucky folks, I …
Category: Youth Blog Tags: artwork, Bucktails, creative arts, journaling, PA state parks, reports from the field, Ursids, wildlife
The Nile Hippo
Posted: September 14, 2015 by Katie Cassidy
This post is brought to us by Gabriel, an Ursids alumni – he writes about an exotic animal he had a chance to see and photograph. The Nile Hippo, H. a. amphibius, is native to, you guessed it, the Nile River, stretching to Tanzania and Mozambique. Hippopotamus derives from Greek, hippos– meaning horse and potamos– …
Category: Youth Blog Tags: exotic animals, journaling, Ursids, wildlife, youth