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Don’t Deck the Halls with Wintergreen
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident I spotted this green ground cover with red berries as my wife and I finished the McDade Trail near route 209. “Is that a variety of holly?” I asked. “No,” she replied. “Wintergreen.” Its deep…
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Some Gall
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident The photo is not of a small planet sitting on my napkin. The day after the last big snow, all was white beneath my feet except for this little brown, round object, one inch in…
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Dangerous Beauty
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident I could easily live the rest of my life knowing that the storm of a couple years ago, featuring a foot of snow and seventy mile per hour wind, was the worst I would ever…
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Accessibility Statement for www.peec.org
Pocono Environmental Education Center is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards. What are we doing? We are taking the following measures to increase and then maintain the accessibility of www.peec.org: Include accessibility throughout our internal policies…
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Topaz the Aussie
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Topaz is ready for his first walk through the forest. He is a one-year-old mini Australian shepherd that joined our pack on November 2. He had been well cared-for but had never been off-leash except…
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The Perilous Crawl to Metamorphosis
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Those moths that circle outdoor lighting in the spring and summer are Isabella tiger moths. They evolved to navigate using the moon as a fixed point. Then humans constructed little electric moons everywhere. The moths…
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Harmless until Threatened
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident From mid-summer to the end of fall I see many brown paper wasps. In the summer, they join a variety of creatures visiting our flowering plants. They are focused on their job and have no…
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Special Ginkgo Update
Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident In reference to last week’s entry on the ginkgo tree, here is one in Milford, PA on the corner of Broad and Catherine, in front of the jewelry store. Note that a large pile of leaves…
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Until the Last Leaf Falls
Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Some people like to judge fall’s colors compared to other years. I love what happens every year: the vivid colors, and also the subtle shades as winter approaches. The only constant is leaves dropping everywhere. I…
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Bad as You Look
Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident This spider will become far less scary when I tell you it is barely an inch long. I found it on the top of a cardboard box delivered to my door. I tilted the box and…