Lois and Ron are visiting from Long Island, and today I took them to Hawk Mountain in Schuylkill County. It’s truly a wonderful place. Great vistas, hiking trails, a visitor center with educational materials and fun items for kids.
Lois noted that Hawk Mountain is not a state park, not a national park, but a private bird sanctuary, founded in 1934 by one woman, Rosalie Edge, who thought it was wrong to slaughter hawks for sport. Hawk Mountain is a location where hawks congregate to take advantage of thermal updrafts to fly over the Blue Mountain on their journey south.
Hawk Mountain is not only a sanctuary, but an international training center for scientists and volunteers from around the world. It is a wonderful place, and for at least for a time today I didn’t think about Trump, nuclear war, or the administration’s attempt to gut our environmental protections. If only I could live on Hawk Mountain.
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