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March 20 – May 20, 2012 Spring Pennypack Photo Contest
Each participant may enter 3 images for each of 7 categories offered in this year's contest (21 images total). All images submitted to the contest will be presented in a slideshow at the Mitchell Performing Arts Center in Bryn Athyn on May 27 at 7:00 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for each category and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners for each category will be invited to frame their work for a gallery showing.
All participants must register with the Pennypack via phone, email or mail. The registration fee is $20 before March 20, $25 between March 21 and April 20, and $30 between April 21 and May 20. The deadline for all photo submissions is May 20. All profits will be used to benefit the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.
For more detailed information visit www.pennypackphoto.blogspot.com.
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March 24 – June 2, Learn the Joy of Beekeeping, Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. – noon
Learn to be a beekeeper during this 10-week course taught by Nancy Schnarr. Classes are a combination of lecture and field work. Students must bring their own bee veil, which can be purchased online from Brushy Mountain Bee Farm. Minimum of 6 people needed to hold the course. No class April 17. Pre-paid registration required by Thursday, March 22. Members $110; non-members $125.
Hurricane Irene Damages Preserve, Sets Back Forest Restoration
The floodplain and trails along Pennypack Creek took heavy hits from floodwaters generated by Hurricane Irene on August 28-29. The flooding, which overtopped the Crossroads Marsh at the intersection of the Creek Road and Papermill Road Trails, caused significant damage to the trail surfaces, some of which has been repaired. One wooden bridge on the Webb Memorial Walk was washed away, and the other two bridges were moved off their foundations. In other locations, the storm's winds toppled trees across the trails, blocking the trails until the Trust's stewardship staff members could deploy their chain saws. Some trees that the Trust planted on the floodplain were toppled as well, and the stewardship staff and volunteers will be working for several weeks to stand the trees upright and remove debris caught by the tree shelters. Damage to the floodplain portion of the Pennypack Preserve rivaled that produced by Hurricane Floyd in September 1999, which generated the greatest flooding in the history of the Pennypack Preserve.