Put your lawn mower away

MILANVILLE, PA — Make the front yard an inviting place without the weekly manicure, and get ready for a summer of bird and butterfly watching.

The Delaware Highlands Conservancy and Audubon Society members Kathy Dodge and Bob Campbell will present a workshop on how to encourage diverse habitats on residential properties on Saturday, June 7 at 10:00 a.m. at the Butterfly Barn nature center on the PA River Road.

Dodge and Campbell will lead hands-on activities that show how to put new knowledge into practice. Their humorous skits will entertain people of all ages.

For more information call 570-226-3164 or 570-729-7053.

Get hooked by Just Fishing
at Grey Towers

MILFORD, PA — As part of Grey Towers’ Off the Shelf cultural program, museum specialist Rebecca Philpot will share some of Gifford Pinchot’s favorite fishing stories at a public program on Saturday, June 7 at 7:00 p.m.

The evening, named after Pinchot’s book, Just Fishing, will also include a look at Grey Towers’ historic fishing collection. Pinchot, a conservationist and past governor of PA, was an avid angler who loved fishing the streams of Pike County. He also wrote a book about the expedition he led to the South Seas between his two gubernatorial terms.

The Pinchot family donated Grey Towers to the Forest Service in 1963. Today it serves as a museum, a conservation education center and a conference facility for environmental planning.

The program is free and open to the public. For information call 570/296-9630.