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Are we yanking 200,000 ginseng plants from Pennsylvania forests every year?
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
The root of the American ginseng is the part of the plant sought by sellers and buyers. (John Carl Jacobs photo)
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That would be equivalent to about 200,000 plants being harvested from Pennsylvania’s woodlands annually.
But, according to DCNR, about 30 percent of the harvest is plants that the sellers have planted as seeds or transplanted into the wild. No ginseng harvest is permitted on public lands in Pennsylvania.
Penn State botanists who have been tracking the state’s ginseng industry since 2012 will take a deeper look behind those numbers with a $45.000 grant from the state’s Wild Resource Conservation Program.
Conservancy steps in to restore stream eroding Northampton County farmland
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
An eroded stream bank along Oughoughton Creek in the Slate Belt is seen before a restoration project led by Wildlands Conservancy.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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A Delaware River tributary running through Slate Belt communities is healthier, and the surrounding farmland is better off, thanks to a restoration project led by Wildlands Conservancy.
The conservancy based outside Emmaus this week announced the completion of a $475,000 restoration on a nearly one-mile stretch of Oughoughton Creek.
Winding through Upper Mount Bethel and Washington townships before emptying into the Delaware in Lower Mount Bethel Township at the Martins Creek Boat Access, Oughoughton Creek was eroding farmlands directly adjacent to the water’s edge where the soil is composed of highly erodible cobble and loose boulders called glacial till, according to Wildl
There is New Hope for Pittsburgh’s Tree of Lights
This is supposed to be the last year for the iconic tree at Point State Park, but plenty is going on behind the scenes to ensure its return.
December 21, 2020
PHOTO: DAVE DICELLO
Visitors to Point State Park next holiday season may be able to gaze upon a lighted tree near the confluence of the three rivers after all.
Duquesne Light first announced the impending retirement of the 80-foot-tall Tree of Lights in a press release on Nov. 20, stating that it was a “mutual decision” between the park and company to retire the tree.
York County nature preserve grows to more than 1,000 acres
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
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Hellam Hills Nature Preserve in York County recently was expanded by 70 acres and now stands at more than 1,000 acres.
According to the Lancaster Conservancy, the expansion occurred through a land deal with Ralph Streibig, who donated part of the value of the land in memory of his husband, Richard L. King, and King’s family, who loved the land and worked to preserve it for future generations.
The nature preserve northeast of York now is nearly 800 contiguous protected acres and more than 1,000 acres total.
The conservancy completed the purchase with a Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.