Comments for Marcia Bonta

Comment on American Robin by Marcia Bonta

Marcia Bonta — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:44:28 +0000

None here this year because the wild fruit crop was sparse.

Comment on Return of the Bald Eagles by Marcia Bonta

Marcia Bonta — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:42:21 +0000

Hi Alan, I wish I lived there too, but we’re too invested here. It is so discouraging to see how the natural beauty that Pennsylvania has is being sucked away by the natural gas industry north of us. Few people seem to know or care about habitat fragmentation, let alone air and water pollution and those who do are labeled environmentalist extremists. I never thought we would come to this here.

Comment on American Robin by Alan Gregory

Alan Gregory — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:42:15 +0000

Virtually every day this winter here in northern Vermont I have seen and/or heard robins. On the Rutland, VT, Christmas count we tallied hundreds.

Comment on Return of the Bald Eagles by Alan Gregory

Alan Gregory — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:37:30 +0000

Very nicely said, Marcia. I’m glad I found your blog. I now live in northern Vermont. Cheers.

Comment on The Biodiversity of Lake Pleasant by Marcia Bonta

Marcia Bonta — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:00:13 +0000

I’m glad you have such lovely memories of Lake Pleasant and that you are in favor of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s stewardship of this unique habitat.

Comment on The Biodiversity of Lake Pleasant by Jim Sinn

Jim Sinn — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:03:11 +0000

I lived in Arbuckle from 1948 to 1960.
Arbuckle is about one mile south of Lake Pleasant. During summer vacation it was a daily ritual to ride my bike to the lake and and spend the afternoon swimming. Vern Myers, owner of the Allied Trades Club built a refreshment stand on the bank of the lake, had two or three docks close to the stand and rented row boats. One summer, maybe two, he built a raft that was anchored about twenty feet away from the end of the docks. It had a platform about five feet above the raft that was great for diving. After I got myu driver’s license the lake was an after work destination (farm hand, hauling hay and loading potatoes, dirty, sweaty work). There was nothing better or more refreshing than plunging into the cool water of Lake Pleasant and ‘washing the stink off.’ Now a days that would probably be frowned upon, but then it was just a normal part of living. My dad was an avid fisherman. He fished from a rowboat for perch and blue gills. He would stop on the way home from his second shift job and fish for bass with a jitterbug lure. He caught them often enough that he stopped a couple nights a week all summer long for several years hoping to catch more. I am glad that the Conservancy has gotten involved. The lake was pristine during my time there and it is good to preserve it for future generations.

Comment on Golden Eagle Redux by The eagle has landed on Reddit | Via Negativa

The eagle has landed on Reddit | Via Negativa — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:59:06 +0000

[...] It was part of an annotated set of photos of a golden eagle that had been trapped, fitted with a radio transmitter, and released on our property (see my blog post at the Plummer’s Hollow site and my mother’s much more thorough column). [...]

Comment on Theodora Cope Gray – Nature’s Own Child by Marcia Bonta

Marcia Bonta — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:41:57 +0000

I’m glad you have happy memories of the place. I do too and so have no intention of returning and seeing what shale gas drilling has done to Dimock and its surroundings. I understand Woodbourne is more or less surrounded by the industry.

Comment on Theodora Cope Gray – Nature’s Own Child by Anna Mae Schroeder

Anna Mae Schroeder — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:42:44 +0000

As I have been going through my storage boxes recently, I thought about the book Driftwood Valley which I knew I had purchased at a used book shop near Mansfield, PA. I suddenly found it late last night and was very delighted.
I had lived near Dimock, Pennsylvania and attended grade school at Dimock in the mid-1940s. Our class had a visit to the virgin woods of The Woodbourne Forest and Wildlife Sanctuary very near to the school, and that visit has stayed in my heart ever since. I also went on the tour as an adult about twenty years ago. It was so peaceful.
The tour included a little jaunt on the grounds near the home, and the daffodils were simply magnificent!

Comment on Golden Eagle Redux by Beth Lowe

Beth Lowe — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:55:53 +0000

Loved hearing the back story. What an amazing gift.