Pennsylvania State Forest Campsites (FEE now required as of 11/2022)

You can now check availability of campsites and reserve online (as of November 2022 for a FEE): https://maps.dcnr.pa.gov/bof/camping/ You can get this as an Google Spreadsheet which you can download: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-d-0SqbKhncJsZrFBQEQdIb860_WrlzrA8WFnAzYNWY/edit#gid=475541885

Allegheny National Forest campsites (shown in yellow) remain free to use.

Update 9/1/21: Fixed a bug which prevented the popups from working on these maps.

Mankind

Man’s ability to alter his environment has developed far more rapidly than his ability to foresee with certainty the effects of his alterations. It is only recently that we have begun to appreciate the danger posed by unregulated modification of the world around us, and have created watchdog agencies whose task it is to warn us, and protect us, when technological “advances” present dangers unappreciated—or unrevealed—by their supporters. Such agencies, unequipped with crystal balls and unable to read the future, are nonetheless charged with evaluating the effects of unprecedented environmental modifications, often made on a massive scale. Necessarily, they must deal with predictions and uncertainty, with developing evidence, with conflicting evidence, and, sometimes, with little or no evidence at all.

~ Ethyl Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency (1976)

 

Upwards

Trees can inspire us to look upwards. Taken at Point Au Roche.

Taken on Tuesday December 12, 2006 at Common Earth.

NY 206 in Coventry.

Rolling farm country and hills, as I was driving from Bainbridge to Coventry in rural Chenango County.

Moose Plains 1952

This video shows what the area around Helldiver Pond and Ice House Pond looked like at Moose River Plains in 1952.