Wildlife Activist
Wildlife Activist (ISSN 0894-4660) is published two times per year and is the main publication and newsletter for the general membership. The Activist provides updates on all of the Center’s major projects, including the Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge, and the Kittatinny Raptor Corridor Project. Wildlife Activist also provides feature articles of interest to our members.
An extensive collection of Wildlife Book Reviews provides benefit not only to our members, but is used as a reference for many researchers and academic librarians around the world.
Some articles from Wildlife Activist:
For an overview of our strategy in re-vegetating the mountain, read Dan Kunkle’s article Watching Grass Grow — Update on the Restoration Process at Lehigh Gap, and its sequel, Watching Grass Grow II. Also see Dan’s Ecological Succession and Lehigh Gap.
For a bit of history on the formation of the refuge and the funding behind it, Bob Hoopes, our Treasurer, has put together a series of articles, starting with A Dream Come True, followed by From Idea to Reality: The Wildlife Center’s 2002 Transition, and finally Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge Is Open For Business. The retrospective, Five Years Ago and Back to the Future, provides an overview of the entire process. Dan Kunkle’s article, Remarkable Progress of Wildlife Refuge Land Fund, discusses a bit of the funding that makes the refuge possible. Links to the above and other articles are provided below.
- Summer 2013 – A Decade of Research and Restoration at Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge – by Diane W. Husic
- Spring 2007 – Five Years Ago and Back to the Future: How the Lehigh Gap Restoration Project Turned Around a Stalled Superfund Initiative – by Robert E. Hoopes
- Summer 2006 – Refuge Grass Planting Nearing Completion – by Dan R. Kunkle (pdf file)
- Fall 2004 – Lehigh Gap Restoration Project: Year 2 Progress Report – by Dan R. Kunkle
- Summer 2004 – Big Day of Birding – by Robert E. Hoopes
- Summer 2004 – Ecological Succession and Lehigh Gap – by Dan R. Kunkle
- Fall 2003 – Remarkable Progress of Wildlife Refuge Land Fund – by Dan R. Kunkle
- Fall 2003 – Watching Grass Grow II – by Dan R. Kunkle
- Summer 2003 – Watching Grass Grow–Update on the Restoration Process at Lehigh Gap – by Dan R. Kunkle
- Summer 2003 – Lehigh Gap Wildlife Refuge Is Open For Business – by Robert E. Hoopes
- Spring 2003 – From Idea to Reality: The Wildlife Center’s 2002 Transition – by Robert E. Hoopes
- Fall 2002 – A Dream Come True – by Robert E. Hoopes
American Hawkwatcher
American Hawkwatcher (ISSN 0748-8319) is a scientific journal reporting on the long term Bake Oven Knob Hawk Count
research project. It also includes other articles and short field notes related to hawks in the Western Hemisphere. American Hawkwatcher is published annually in the spring following the hawk count.