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Summer Fishing

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 …

Elk In Pennsylvania

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 …

Searching for the Black Bears of Itasca

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 …

The Nile Hippo

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– …

Saving the Red Pine Forests of Minnesota

This post is one of a four part mini-series by one of our NextGen Monthly Correspondents – Freya B.  She is a Bucktails and Ursids alumni, and writes about her trip to Minnesota – the series begins with the red pine forests.   This summer my family took a trip to Minnesota. While we were there …