Fall Photojournal
Every season is beautiful in Glen Providence Park– but Fall is just magical! After our first year of monthly photojournals, we...
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A Year in Pictures
For one year, we kept a monthly photojournal of Glen Providence Park– walking through the park a few times a week looking for...
read moreAnother successful National Public Lands Day!
One year ago, Friends of Glen Providence Park chose National Public Lands Day (NPLD) for our first event: a volunteer day cleaning up...
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We just passed the first anniversary of Friends of Glen Providence Park, and now we have one year of monthly photojournals! It was...
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June brought heat waves, thunderstorms, and a world of insects to observe in Glen Providence Park! One of my favorites is the Ebony...
read moreA Playful Pond Walk!
What fun we had on our June 23 Pond Walk! It was a beautiful morning, and we had our biggest turnout yet- there were at least 19...
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Just call it our Birding Big Month! With the expert help of the Birding Club of Delaware County, we added 15 species to our Glen...
read more6/23/2012 Pond Walk!
Join us as we explore the plant and animal life at the pond in Glen Providence Park! The pond was created in 1936, primarily for...
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Glen Providence Park burst into color and bird song in April! At the beginning of the month there were just splashes of color, with...
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What a fun month to watch wildlife at the pond in Glen Providence Park! The unseasonably warm weather continued with the temperature...
read moreA Lovely Spring Ephemerals Walk
We were lucky on our St. Patrick’s Day Spring Ephemerals Walk in Glen Providence Park… starting with the glorious...
read moreDelaware County Open Space Plan
We want to make sure you are aware of an exciting opportunity to be involved in the planning for the future of open space in Delaware...
read moreIt’s A Wonderful Life… at Glen Providence Park!
An amazing 1933 account of a girl rescuing her younger sister from icy water at Broomall’s Dam is remarkably similar to that of...
read moreAnnotated Trail Map!
It’s our historically annotated trail map! These are not official trail and place names- they are whimsical names based on our...
read moreA History & Nature Hike
What a beautiful morning we had for our History & Nature Hike on Saturday! Fifteen adults and children enjoyed the foliage as we...
read moreOctober Wildlife Sightings
From late fall foliage to a rare pre-Halloween snow, it was an odd month! At least we had some days of gorgeous weather after months...
read moreUpcoming Changes: Pond & Wetlands
In the next few years, there will be some permanent changes to the park’s pond and wetlands. This is an outline of the...
read moreSeptember Wildlife Sightings
Our 2nd month documenting park wildlife and happenings… In the first few days, we noticed that the Cicadas had ended...
read moreStudents in the park
Since the park’s beginning, school classes have visited the park to study its plants and wildlife. That tradition continues...
read moreAugust Wildlife Sightings
Kind of a photo journal of the park… we had fun starting our quest to document the wildlife in the park, camera in hand! We...
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