Butterfly weed going to seed in the pollinator garden at AEC
A lovely row of burning bush. Listed as an invasive species by PA DCNR.
Winter wheat has been seeded at Fisher Quad – thanks Dave K!
Some landscaping pics from this morning
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3rd Street dam
Early November morning at the Bushkill dam
This will be gone in a couple years – imagine the possibilities…
Recent news relevant to Bushkill Project
I’m sure that many of you read the recent interview with mayor of Easton Sal Panto in The Lafayette. Hopefully you noticed his comment about vacating part of Bushkill Drive, which would dovetail nicely with our efforts to revitalize the area around the dam and convert the road to a pedestrian area and trail. Vacating a street is an official procedure that a municipality can use to close a road so that it can be developed for another purpose.
Entrance to Bushkill Drive on June 29 2006
Cover crops
Important court settlement for wild animals
This isn’t directly related to our class projects, but thought it might be of interest
This little-noticed court settlement will probably save millions of animals
It begins!
Lots of utility lines marked out but luckily they were deeper
Finding FEMA floodplain maps
Go to the FEMA Flood Map Service – at the bottom of the page is a Locator map, zoom way in to Easton. You will see a grid of boxes that correspond to the maps – the map for our area is designated 42095C0279E. Once you select it, some icons will appear at the top – click on the View Map or Save Map icon.
Here is a screenshot:
The area with blue dots is within the 100-yr floodplain, and the grey dots are the 500-yr floodplain.
Fisher Quad update 10/8 – REVISED 10/10
Students planting the wetland at Sullivan Park, spring 2010
Bruce says the contractor will be working at Fisher later this week. We need to get the flyers posted and a survey up and running asap!