Home of the Sparrow’s Board of Directors invites community members to join them for the Third Annual “The Gathering at Penns Woods Winery” on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Founded in 1994, Home of the Sparrow partners with women facing homelessness to secure housing, achieve long-term stability, and chart new paths for their futures. Home of the Sparrow ...
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Conservancy helping the monarch butterfly
Posted by Lora B. Englehart on August 21st, 2016
The monarch butterfly may soon be on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered Species List. Since the 1990s, the number of monarchs across North America has declined by more than 80 percent, from almost one billion to about 56.5 million today. Over-logging in Mexico — where the butterflies live in winter — is wiping out the monarch’s southern forest habitat and, in ...
