Fellow outdoors enthusiasts,

I wanted to update you on the Deer Study Tour 2002. It’s coming together very well. Only two more weeks and you need to free up your calendar for this event! Hills Creek State Park is worth the time alone. We will be very close to the Grand Canyon of Pa. Make you camp site reservations real soon. Here’s a link to the original post on it with some more details on what it is about:

http://www.ubofpa.org/deertour2002.html

We will be meeting at the Visitor Center Pavilion at 8 PM on 9/13/02 to meet and do the spotlighting portion of the tour. Some of the people have told me they will not be to the park in time for this. That is fine as we plan to discuss the results of the spotlighting the following morning.

The next day we will meet again at 9AM, again at the Visitor Center Pavilion, and drive to a nearby state forest to examine a few sites for deer impact. We hope to determine what to look for when looking for browse damage and whether these areas show a correct density.

Please bring a sandwich or snack, as we may not return to the state park until around 3 PM. We plan to have a local landowner that has been practicing QDM tell us about his results, what habitat work he’s done, and about data collection in a program like his. He has been doing it for five years and it should be very interesting.

Finally we plan to re-meet at the pavilion for a picnic. There are no charcoal grills there, so bring them if you can. One of the attendees is making up a batch of kielbasa for us. Bring some meat and a dish if you can.

I’d like to get an idea of the number of people that are attending, so please shoot me an email with the number of people you hope to bring.

Please feel free to bring family and invite interested friends. This should be educational and a lot of fun. Be there or be square. Remember when you decided not to go to that stupid little Woodstock? Don't make the same mistake again!

Peace, love and beads,

Mark S. Hogan- Email: [email protected]