Environmental Education
Published: January 26, 2012
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Are you a child interested in wildlife? Wondering what you can do as a responsible Triboro resident to improve wildlife habitats in your backyard?
If you answered "yes" to the above, then you are in luck because Waste Management owned Alliance Landfill in Taylor will hold its award-winning Camp Kestrel Habitat workshop on Saturday, Feb. 25.
The environmetaly-minded event will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Alliance Community Center, 360 S. Keyser Ave., Taylor.
According to organizers, the camp will use presentations and hands-on exercises to familiarize children with local habitat issues, how they can improve wildlife habitat, and how they can become better recyclers.
The program will include a habitat seminar led by Dr. Jerry Skinner, who has taught biology at Keystone College for 32 years, a live-animal presentation by experts from the Pennsylvania Raptor and Wildlife Center, birdhouse building, a landfill site tour.
The camp will also feature what organizers describe as a "low-litter lunch," where those attending reduce waste by recycling drink containers and lunch bags and by composting fruit waste.
Camp Kestrel has provided almost 8,200 environmental learning hours to more than 2,900 campers since its start in 2004.
The camp was recognized by a 2009 Environmental Partnership Award presented by the Northeast Pennsylvania Environmental Partners and was named the Wildlife Habitat Council's 2008 Corporate Lands for Learning Project of the Year. The camp received the council's Corporate Lands for Learning recertification in 2011.
Additional information about WHC is available from the Council's website at www.wildlifehc.org.
The camp is named for the American kestrel, the world's smallest falcon and a year-round landfill resident.
In the event of inclement weather on Feb. 25, the camp will be conducted on Saturday, March 3.
Additional information about Alliance Landfill's Camp Kestrel is available by contacting 562-1600 ext. 244.
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