North Pocono CARE

Annual Macroinvertebrate Survey
2025-08-16 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Wincek Residence, 610 Old River Road, Thornhurst, PA, United States
Marvelous Macroinvertebrates (Bugs!) in the Lehigh River. Identifying bugs that fish eat…
Please join our Master Watershed Stewards for what is one of the most important events on the North Pocono CARE calendar. We collect insects in the river, separate, categorize and count their numbers. This helps assure that the river water quality is not getting impacted by any development upstream.
Bring wading shoes and a towel. Wonderful program for kids and families!

The Wonders of Waterfowl
2025-09-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Thornhurst Fire House, 351 Old River Road, Thornhurst, PA, 18424
Join Molly Giles, Biologist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, to find out interesting facts about ducks, geese, and swans. Waterfowl have special adaptations that help them survive in aquatic environments. We’ll learn about the food resources they need, how they nest and raise their young, and the awesome annual migration that these birds undertake every fall and spring.
Molly will lead a discussion on how the PGC manages waterfowl populations using survey and marking birds with leg bands and GPS transmitters. We’ll also talk about the importance of our wetlands and the benefits they provide to wildlife and humans.
Great program for kids and families!

Stream Protection Webinar
2025-09-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Webinar please see registration info below
Did you know Pennsylvania’s streams have different protection statuses?
Please join our own Rich Troscianecki, North Pocono CARE President, along with Faith Zerbe, Water Watch Director, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Joshua Saltmer, Preserve Manager & Wildlife Coordinator Bear Creek Preserve, Natural Land for an informative Webinar about proactively protecting our rivers and streams.
Much of our local watershed has received an Exceptional Value designation. How do we maintain this key indicator of water health? Find out how local and regional community land preservation and water protection groups are working to further secure protections for our beloved, healthy and diverse river and stream network.

PennFuture Fall Fundraiser
2025-10-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Broadhead Creek Heritage Center, 1539 Cherry Lane Road, East Stroundsburg, PA, 18301, United States
PennFuture invites the community to join them for a fund raising reception to support their Legal Environmental Advocacy Fund. The evening reception costs $50 per ticket and will include local food and beverages.
Penn Future Attorney, Brigitte Meyer, has been an integral part of the effort to make sure the data center proposals in Covington and Clifton townships are challenged. She has been guiding us through the maze of legalities and keeps us focused on the important issues at hand.
Come meet Bridgette and the stellar legal team at PennFuture. Hear from local advocates on how PennFuture’s legal work has helped protect critical headwaters and open space.
Please consider supporting this great organization either with a donation or by attending their fundraiser. Purchase tickets here.

Bamboo Rod Demo Western Pocono Trout Unlimited
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 | White Haven Library & Community Center, 121 Towanda Street, White Have, PA
Join local master bamboo rod making craftsmen, Brian Farrel and Ed Kania for a display and demonstration of their work. These accomplished rod builders will also explain the history of this unique craft used by early anglers going back
centuries long before the advent of synthetic rods.

Perfect for fly fishing enthusiasts in the off season!

Arrive early for access to over 100 mint condition trout books being sold at bargain prices to benefit WPTU. The books were collected by John Kayak, one of the original founding fathers of WPTU.

Dawn of the Data Centers (Clean Energy for All Webinar)
2025-10-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Webinar please see registration info below
They’re here…This Halloween, there’s nothing scarier than a data center proposal! Across Pennsylvania, data centers are rising up and shambling into our communities, bringing retired power plants back to life and reinvigorating the push to build new polluting facilities. Data centers can be energy- and water-sucking vampires, slipping into neighborhoods under existing siting policies intended to regulate very different industries like manufacturing or warehouses.
In the next episode of the Clean Energy for All series, we tell the spooky story of how we got here, separate facts from fears, and consider how local governments and community members can utilize existing policies to combat current proposals while preparing smart policies in advance of new threats. We’ll also hear from local organizers who are working right now to shield their communities from the worst impacts of data center development.
Organize Before They Rise!

Uncovering PA’s AI + Energy Strategy: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
2025-12-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Webinar please see registration info below
Join PennFuture to learn more about how the fracked gas industry is positioning itself to be the sole energy provider to AI and data centers in Pennsylvania.
Team PA*, a group of unelected economic development professionals, makes decisions about our economic future and has a plan to attract AI and data centers with the promise of cheap fracked gas.
*The Team Pennsylvania Foundation (Team PA) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that works closely with state officials to execute their mission of growing the state’s economy. Since its inception in 1997, Team PA has championed fossil fuels as the key to economic development and prosperity for the Commonwealth.
