Calendar of Area Events
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June Bio Blitz Competition
All day23-06-25-30-06-25Clear Creek State Park, Clear Creek Road, Sigel, PA, United StatesClear Creek State Park
38 Clear Creek Park Road, Sigel, PA 15860-6702Calling all self-proclaimed naturalists! If you are a mushroom hunter, fisherman, birder, or just like walking the trails and discovering the diversity of our parks, we need YOU! To help us learn about the diversity of organisms in our park, we are competing with other parks in a state-wide Bio Blitz competition!
To participate, download the iNaturalist app on your phone, create an account, and start uploading observations found in your favorite parks! iNaturalist is a free citizen science project application that allows users to locate and identify organisms anywhere in the world! You don’t have to be an expert to join, simply take photos of organisms in the parks you visit (or your own backyard) and upload them to iNaturalist – all of which is done in the app itself. It’s very user friendly and can help scientists discover new populations of organisms and track those that may be declining. It really is an awesome tool for research!
To get started, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/home and create your account. Then, simply visit our park in June and upload sightings within the park! They will automatically be submitted as part of the Bio Blitz. The more sightings, the more chances our park will win, so record everything!
Rules for submissions are as follows:
Recordings of birds and frogs are acceptable, as long as they are clear enough to recognize. You can upload merlin recordings as well through a PC.
Trail camera photos are accepted and encouraged for nocturnal life. Time and date stamps should be visible. Honors system on this one!
Plants must be WILD in your park. We will not accept garden grown plants/trees this year. It’s too easy to stand in a butterfly garden and grab dozens of species without moving. They need to be growing wild, whether they are native or invasive. This goes for natives in butterfly gardens as well. I would like to know where these species are growing wild, not where they’ve been planted. If you’re not certain, you can include it, but make note of its uncertain origin.
No dead animals. Let’s not include roadkill, and absolutely no taxidermy.
No pets or “escapees”. The bobwhite running around your park is not wild, and neither is the loose dog.Sunday, June 1, 2025
More dates through June 30, 2025
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June Bio Blitz Competition
All day24-06-25-30-06-25Clear Creek State Park, Clear Creek Road, Sigel, PA, United StatesClear Creek State Park
38 Clear Creek Park Road, Sigel, PA 15860-6702Calling all self-proclaimed naturalists! If you are a mushroom hunter, fisherman, birder, or just like walking the trails and discovering the diversity of our parks, we need YOU! To help us learn about the diversity of organisms in our park, we are competing with other parks in a state-wide Bio Blitz competition!
To participate, download the iNaturalist app on your phone, create an account, and start uploading observations found in your favorite parks! iNaturalist is a free citizen science project application that allows users to locate and identify organisms anywhere in the world! You don’t have to be an expert to join, simply take photos of organisms in the parks you visit (or your own backyard) and upload them to iNaturalist – all of which is done in the app itself. It’s very user friendly and can help scientists discover new populations of organisms and track those that may be declining. It really is an awesome tool for research!
To get started, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/home and create your account. Then, simply visit our park in June and upload sightings within the park! They will automatically be submitted as part of the Bio Blitz. The more sightings, the more chances our park will win, so record everything!
Rules for submissions are as follows:
Recordings of birds and frogs are acceptable, as long as they are clear enough to recognize. You can upload merlin recordings as well through a PC.
Trail camera photos are accepted and encouraged for nocturnal life. Time and date stamps should be visible. Honors system on this one!
Plants must be WILD in your park. We will not accept garden grown plants/trees this year. It’s too easy to stand in a butterfly garden and grab dozens of species without moving. They need to be growing wild, whether they are native or invasive. This goes for natives in butterfly gardens as well. I would like to know where these species are growing wild, not where they’ve been planted. If you’re not certain, you can include it, but make note of its uncertain origin.
No dead animals. Let’s not include roadkill, and absolutely no taxidermy.
No pets or “escapees”. The bobwhite running around your park is not wild, and neither is the loose dog.Sunday, June 1, 2025
More dates through June 30, 2025
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June Bio Blitz Competition
All day25-06-25-30-06-25Clear Creek State Park, Clear Creek Road, Sigel, PA, United StatesClear Creek State Park
38 Clear Creek Park Road, Sigel, PA 15860-6702Calling all self-proclaimed naturalists! If you are a mushroom hunter, fisherman, birder, or just like walking the trails and discovering the diversity of our parks, we need YOU! To help us learn about the diversity of organisms in our park, we are competing with other parks in a state-wide Bio Blitz competition!
To participate, download the iNaturalist app on your phone, create an account, and start uploading observations found in your favorite parks! iNaturalist is a free citizen science project application that allows users to locate and identify organisms anywhere in the world! You don’t have to be an expert to join, simply take photos of organisms in the parks you visit (or your own backyard) and upload them to iNaturalist – all of which is done in the app itself. It’s very user friendly and can help scientists discover new populations of organisms and track those that may be declining. It really is an awesome tool for research!
To get started, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/home and create your account. Then, simply visit our park in June and upload sightings within the park! They will automatically be submitted as part of the Bio Blitz. The more sightings, the more chances our park will win, so record everything!
Rules for submissions are as follows:
Recordings of birds and frogs are acceptable, as long as they are clear enough to recognize. You can upload merlin recordings as well through a PC.
Trail camera photos are accepted and encouraged for nocturnal life. Time and date stamps should be visible. Honors system on this one!
Plants must be WILD in your park. We will not accept garden grown plants/trees this year. It’s too easy to stand in a butterfly garden and grab dozens of species without moving. They need to be growing wild, whether they are native or invasive. This goes for natives in butterfly gardens as well. I would like to know where these species are growing wild, not where they’ve been planted. If you’re not certain, you can include it, but make note of its uncertain origin.
No dead animals. Let’s not include roadkill, and absolutely no taxidermy.
No pets or “escapees”. The bobwhite running around your park is not wild, and neither is the loose dog.Sunday, June 1, 2025
More dates through June 30, 2025
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June Bio Blitz Competition
All day26-06-25-30-06-25Clear Creek State Park, Clear Creek Road, Sigel, PA, United StatesClear Creek State Park
38 Clear Creek Park Road, Sigel, PA 15860-6702Calling all self-proclaimed naturalists! If you are a mushroom hunter, fisherman, birder, or just like walking the trails and discovering the diversity of our parks, we need YOU! To help us learn about the diversity of organisms in our park, we are competing with other parks in a state-wide Bio Blitz competition!
To participate, download the iNaturalist app on your phone, create an account, and start uploading observations found in your favorite parks! iNaturalist is a free citizen science project application that allows users to locate and identify organisms anywhere in the world! You don’t have to be an expert to join, simply take photos of organisms in the parks you visit (or your own backyard) and upload them to iNaturalist – all of which is done in the app itself. It’s very user friendly and can help scientists discover new populations of organisms and track those that may be declining. It really is an awesome tool for research!
To get started, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/home and create your account. Then, simply visit our park in June and upload sightings within the park! They will automatically be submitted as part of the Bio Blitz. The more sightings, the more chances our park will win, so record everything!
Rules for submissions are as follows:
Recordings of birds and frogs are acceptable, as long as they are clear enough to recognize. You can upload merlin recordings as well through a PC.
Trail camera photos are accepted and encouraged for nocturnal life. Time and date stamps should be visible. Honors system on this one!
Plants must be WILD in your park. We will not accept garden grown plants/trees this year. It’s too easy to stand in a butterfly garden and grab dozens of species without moving. They need to be growing wild, whether they are native or invasive. This goes for natives in butterfly gardens as well. I would like to know where these species are growing wild, not where they’ve been planted. If you’re not certain, you can include it, but make note of its uncertain origin.
No dead animals. Let’s not include roadkill, and absolutely no taxidermy.
No pets or “escapees”. The bobwhite running around your park is not wild, and neither is the loose dog.Sunday, June 1, 2025
More dates through June 30, 2025
- 27
Fire Tower/Seneca Point Historical Tour
All day27-06-25Cooksburg, Pennsylvania 16217Please bring your binoculars and meet at the Fire Tower Parking Lot for an historical interpretive tour of the Fire Tower and Seneca Point by DCNR Conservation Volunteer, Greg Burns. Learn about local logging history, observe Indian sign, and take a breathtaking view from the top of the Fire Tower.
Friday, June 27, 2025 1pm to 2:30pm
Clarion River Boating Program: Gravel Lick-Mill Creek
All day27-06-25113 River Road, Cooksburg, PA 16217Please join us for an interpretive guided float down the National Wild & Scenic Clarion River. Wildlife and lumber history abound along this secluded stretch of the river. Fishing is excellent. Help us document wood duck nesting success, river otter sign, and bald eagle nests while we kayak through the Steel Trap. This is a true wilderness boating experience. No sign of human occupation until we get near the end. Only experienced boaters permitted. Please meet at the Park Office where we will drive to the starting point. Folks must pre-register by 6/23 by contacting the Park Office at (814)744-8407. Registration limited to 10 boats. Cost is $50/boat payable by cash, check or money order made out to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Prior Cook Forest kayak training participants receive a 50% discount. Register early, available spots go fast. See you on the river!
Friday, June 27, 2025 8:30am to 4:30pm
June Bio Blitz Competition
All day27-06-25-30-06-25Clear Creek State Park, Clear Creek Road, Sigel, PA, United StatesClear Creek State Park
38 Clear Creek Park Road, Sigel, PA 15860-6702Calling all self-proclaimed naturalists! If you are a mushroom hunter, fisherman, birder, or just like walking the trails and discovering the diversity of our parks, we need YOU! To help us learn about the diversity of organisms in our park, we are competing with other parks in a state-wide Bio Blitz competition!
To participate, download the iNaturalist app on your phone, create an account, and start uploading observations found in your favorite parks! iNaturalist is a free citizen science project application that allows users to locate and identify organisms anywhere in the world! You don’t have to be an expert to join, simply take photos of organisms in the parks you visit (or your own backyard) and upload them to iNaturalist – all of which is done in the app itself. It’s very user friendly and can help scientists discover new populations of organisms and track those that may be declining. It really is an awesome tool for research!
To get started, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/home and create your account. Then, simply visit our park in June and upload sightings within the park! They will automatically be submitted as part of the Bio Blitz. The more sightings, the more chances our park will win, so record everything!
Rules for submissions are as follows:
Recordings of birds and frogs are acceptable, as long as they are clear enough to recognize. You can upload merlin recordings as well through a PC.
Trail camera photos are accepted and encouraged for nocturnal life. Time and date stamps should be visible. Honors system on this one!
Plants must be WILD in your park. We will not accept garden grown plants/trees this year. It’s too easy to stand in a butterfly garden and grab dozens of species without moving. They need to be growing wild, whether they are native or invasive. This goes for natives in butterfly gardens as well. I would like to know where these species are growing wild, not where they’ve been planted. If you’re not certain, you can include it, but make note of its uncertain origin.
No dead animals. Let’s not include roadkill, and absolutely no taxidermy.
No pets or “escapees”. The bobwhite running around your park is not wild, and neither is the loose dog.Sunday, June 1, 2025
More dates through June 30, 2025
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Hike Cook Forest Series: To the Hogback & Back!
All day28-06-25113 River Road, Cooksburg, PA 16217Join us for a strenuous but scenic 6.5 mile interpretive hike ((sometimes off-trail) to the Hogback, a peculiar horseshoe curve and steep razorback ridge where the picturesque Clarion River wraps around you along the Tobecco Trail. If time permits, we’ll measure big pitch pines on the hilltops and the park’s largest cucumber tree 350ft down at the valley floor. Pack a lunch & water. Please meet at the Park Office where we’ll drive to the starting point.
Saturday, June 28, 2025 9am to 1pm
June Bio Blitz Competition
All day28-06-25-30-06-25Clear Creek State Park, Clear Creek Road, Sigel, PA, United StatesClear Creek State Park
38 Clear Creek Park Road, Sigel, PA 15860-6702Calling all self-proclaimed naturalists! If you are a mushroom hunter, fisherman, birder, or just like walking the trails and discovering the diversity of our parks, we need YOU! To help us learn about the diversity of organisms in our park, we are competing with other parks in a state-wide Bio Blitz competition!
To participate, download the iNaturalist app on your phone, create an account, and start uploading observations found in your favorite parks! iNaturalist is a free citizen science project application that allows users to locate and identify organisms anywhere in the world! You don’t have to be an expert to join, simply take photos of organisms in the parks you visit (or your own backyard) and upload them to iNaturalist – all of which is done in the app itself. It’s very user friendly and can help scientists discover new populations of organisms and track those that may be declining. It really is an awesome tool for research!
To get started, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/home and create your account. Then, simply visit our park in June and upload sightings within the park! They will automatically be submitted as part of the Bio Blitz. The more sightings, the more chances our park will win, so record everything!
Rules for submissions are as follows:
Recordings of birds and frogs are acceptable, as long as they are clear enough to recognize. You can upload merlin recordings as well through a PC.
Trail camera photos are accepted and encouraged for nocturnal life. Time and date stamps should be visible. Honors system on this one!
Plants must be WILD in your park. We will not accept garden grown plants/trees this year. It’s too easy to stand in a butterfly garden and grab dozens of species without moving. They need to be growing wild, whether they are native or invasive. This goes for natives in butterfly gardens as well. I would like to know where these species are growing wild, not where they’ve been planted. If you’re not certain, you can include it, but make note of its uncertain origin.
No dead animals. Let’s not include roadkill, and absolutely no taxidermy.
No pets or “escapees”. The bobwhite running around your park is not wild, and neither is the loose dog.Sunday, June 1, 2025
More dates through June 30, 2025
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June Bio Blitz Competition
All day29-06-25-30-06-25Clear Creek State Park, Clear Creek Road, Sigel, PA, United StatesClear Creek State Park
38 Clear Creek Park Road, Sigel, PA 15860-6702Calling all self-proclaimed naturalists! If you are a mushroom hunter, fisherman, birder, or just like walking the trails and discovering the diversity of our parks, we need YOU! To help us learn about the diversity of organisms in our park, we are competing with other parks in a state-wide Bio Blitz competition!
To participate, download the iNaturalist app on your phone, create an account, and start uploading observations found in your favorite parks! iNaturalist is a free citizen science project application that allows users to locate and identify organisms anywhere in the world! You don’t have to be an expert to join, simply take photos of organisms in the parks you visit (or your own backyard) and upload them to iNaturalist – all of which is done in the app itself. It’s very user friendly and can help scientists discover new populations of organisms and track those that may be declining. It really is an awesome tool for research!
To get started, visit https://www.inaturalist.org/home and create your account. Then, simply visit our park in June and upload sightings within the park! They will automatically be submitted as part of the Bio Blitz. The more sightings, the more chances our park will win, so record everything!
Rules for submissions are as follows:
Recordings of birds and frogs are acceptable, as long as they are clear enough to recognize. You can upload merlin recordings as well through a PC.
Trail camera photos are accepted and encouraged for nocturnal life. Time and date stamps should be visible. Honors system on this one!
Plants must be WILD in your park. We will not accept garden grown plants/trees this year. It’s too easy to stand in a butterfly garden and grab dozens of species without moving. They need to be growing wild, whether they are native or invasive. This goes for natives in butterfly gardens as well. I would like to know where these species are growing wild, not where they’ve been planted. If you’re not certain, you can include it, but make note of its uncertain origin.
No dead animals. Let’s not include roadkill, and absolutely no taxidermy.
No pets or “escapees”. The bobwhite running around your park is not wild, and neither is the loose dog.Sunday, June 1, 2025
More dates through June 30, 2025