Nature Journaling at Rider Park

Please give yourself extra time to drive to the location, park, and walk up the path to the upper pavilion. Parking and reaching the upper pavilion will take at least ten minutes. The walk to the vantage will begin promptly at 9:00 am.

Join us at the upper pavilion at Rider Park to learn how to create a nature journal landscape. Sara Street will guide us on a walk from the upper pavilion through the meadow of Rider Park to get a vantage point of the surrounding Katy Jane Mountain, pointing out plants and trees along the way. Then she will explain how the watercolor materials function. Work on your own, or through a guided step-by-step process to capture the horizon line, sky, and meadow in the foreground. We will use watercolors and ink pens. All supplies will be provided. You can bring your own chair or use the provided picnic tables. Dress for walking in the woods.

Please give yourself extra time to park and walk up the path to the upper pavilion.

Where:
Rider Park's address is 1769 Caleb's Creek Rd, Trout Run.
Learn more about Rider Park on their website: riderpark.org

Contact:

Please contact Nicole Rader, Programming Director at nrader@jvbrown.edu or at (570)326-0536 ext. 116

Weather:

If the forecast is predicting bad weather, the event will be canceled. Please check our Facebook page or Calendar for any updates. We will also send a cancellation email to you from LibCal.

If there is poor weather on the rain date, we will cancel and will not be rescheduled.

All about our Presenter: Sara Street, Manager of Rider Park

As an ISA Certified Arborist and a plant aficionado, Sara has worked in the forestry and related industries for 25 years. She has degrees in Recreation and Park Management, Horticulture, and Landscape Architecture with an emphasis on Ecological Restoration. Sara draws on her work experience as a professional river guide, National Park Service trail crew member, and environmental educator with North Cascades Institute to inform her work at Rider Park. Most recently, she has conducted contract work for a local Consulting Forester and operated her own landscape and tree Consulting business before transitioning to manage Rider Park. Sara is also the Conservation Chair for Lycoming Audubon Society. You can find her leading planting projects and invasive plant management volunteer groups at both Rider Park and Robert Porter Allen Natural Area.