2011 Student Ecologists Honored
Blake Campbell, Dan Kunkle, Brandon Everett, and Corey Husic Lehigh Valley area high school students Blake Campbell, Brandon Everett, Corey Husic , and Clare Kubik were honored on Sunday, March 13 at...
View ArticleEastern PA Phenology Project Earth Week Activities
For Earth Week 2011 (April 16th to 24th) we are encouraging the entire community to participate in what we are dubbing the “World Series of Phenology”. As part of the Eastern PA Phenology Project, we...
View ArticleLehigh Gap Nature Center Receives Two New Grants
The Lehigh Gap Nature Center is the recent recipient of two grants. The first is from the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Environmental Education Grants Program. The proposal, written by...
View ArticleLGNC Featured on Michigan Radio Station
In March 2011, LGNC Board member Diane Husic spoke about the Lehigh Gap Nature Center with Kirk Heinze, for the Greening of the Great Lakes radio show, which airs each weekend on News/Talk 760 WJR in...
View ArticleOver 2000 Students Utilize the Osprey House Laboratory
Since the new science lab in the Osprey House at the Lehigh Gap Nature Center was completed over the winter and during the spring 2011 field trip season, 2000 students and participants in the 2011...
View ArticleLehigh Gap Nature Center Offering Watercolor Courses
Lehigh Gap Nature Center is offering a watercolor painting course for beginners and an additional session for intermediate and advanced painters. The instructor is watercolor artist Kay Stauffer, whose...
View ArticleSpeaker Series Schedule for 2012-2013 Announced
2012-13 Speaker Series printer-friendly brochure The LGNC Speaker Series includes speakers from around the region on topics ranging from nature to research to outdoor recreation in eastern...
View Article3rd Annual 10K/2K Trail Run
[ October 5, 2013; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] The purpose of the event is to create a greater awareness in the community of the extraordinary trail system that exists locally and do so in a way that is...
View ArticleBeginner’s Watercolor Classes Available at LGNC
[ October 11, 2012; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Thursdays, October 11 through November 8, 6:00-8:00 -- Beginner's Watercolor Class. Learn from artist Kay Stauffer in 5 classes on successive Thursday...
View ArticleTrail Closing Alert for Prescribed Fire at LGNC – April 14 (or later,...
TRAIL CLOSING ALERT! Trails at Lehigh Gap Nature Center will be closed because of a prescribed fire at the refuge on April 14 or the next available date with proper conditions for the burn. The latest...
View ArticleWindow Decal Workshop: Preventing Bird Collisions with Glass
[ February 22, 2014; 10:00 am; ] Many bird lovers are dismayed when birds strike their windows. These collisions can result in injury or death to the birds and are the result of the birds seeing...
View ArticleLGNC Receives Lehigh Valley Community Foundation Grant
The Lehigh Valley Community Foundation (www.lvcfoundation.org) is an organization which promotes philanthropy in order to improve the quality of life in our region. The Lehigh Gap Nature...
View ArticleNature in Photographs – Photography Show at LGNC
[ March 21, 2014 to April 5, 2014. ] Lehigh Gap Nature Center (LGNC) is hosting its inaugural Nature in Photographs show at the nature center’s Osprey House from March 21 to April 5, 2014. Amateur...
View ArticleWinter Bird Survey 2014 Results
Fourteen individuals, aged 15 to, well mature, ventured out on January 18, 2014 in freshly fallen and blowing snow for the seventeenth annual Bake Oven Knob Area Winter Bird Survey. Eleven...
View ArticleLGNC Opposes PA House Bill 1576
On March 11th, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives will vote on House Bill 1576, the “Endangered Species Coordination Act”. A number of conservation organizations operating in the state have...
View ArticleJunior Naturalists Club Meeting
[ April 19, 2014; 10:00 am; ] Lehigh Gap Nature Center is starting a new Junior Naturalists Club for elementary-aged students in currently in grades 2-6. The first meeting of the club will be held...
View ArticleNature in Photographs Exhibition Concludes
AUTUMN POND – by Jim Paris : People’s Choice Award Winner Lehigh Gap Nature Center (LGNC) held its first Nature in Photographs exhibition from March 21 to April 5 and today announced the winners of...
View ArticleLGNC Ecology Camp Application Period Open
Lehigh Gap Nature Center (LGNC) announced on Earth Day, April 22, 2014 that applications are now available for students to apply to admission to its Young Ecologist Summer Camp to be held June 23-27....
View ArticleMartin Guitar Plants First Wildlife Garden as Part of a New Conservation...
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View ArticleLGNC Receives Environmental Protection Agency 2014 Exellence in Site Reuse Award
In a ceremony at at the Lehigh Gap Nature Center On Friday September 26, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin presented the Lehigh Gap Nature Center...
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