Outdoors
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⢠The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania is organizing a creatures of the night trail walk at 6:30 p.m. Friday. It will be a family event at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve and will feature costumed animals along the trail. The event will take place if it is raining. Registration is required. Visit aswp.org or call 412-963-6100.
⢠Keystone State Park is holding a Orionids meteor shower event at 9 p.m. Friday. Participants will meet by the boat launch/rental and set up in the grassy area adjacent to the rental building to talk discuss meteors and their importance to humanity. Telescopes will be set up for participants. Program is free. Dress warm. Email Jorduvall@pa.gov or call 724-668-2566.
⢠Forbes State Forest is offering a campfire cooking program at 6 p.m. Saturday. Participants will join the forest naturalist and the Three Rivers Dutch Oven Society in order to learn outdoor cooking methods. Email rmahony@pa.gov or call 724-259-2201.
⢠Ohiopyle State Park is holding a Rise of the Falls Hike from 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday. Participants will meet at the main floor lobby of the visitors center before going on a moderate 3-mile walk that will explore the formation and migration of the park's two most popular waterfalls. Email oihiopylesp@pa.gov or call 724-329-8591.
⢠Venture Outdoors is organizing a pumpkin carving hike from 1-4 p.m. Oct. 29. Participants will go on a Halloween-themed hike for adults through the woods of North Park before carving pumpkins. Program costs $20. Pumpkins and tools will be provided. Email info@ventureoutdoors.com or call 412-255-0564.
⢠The National Aviary is hosting the wings & wildlife benefit auction and art show from 6-10 p.m. Nov. 4-6. Participants may purchase a jury-selected array of nature-inspired art at the show, with photographer Dave DiCello acting as the featured artist this year. Tickets to the auction Nov. 4 cost $100, and tickets to the art show Nov. 5-6 cost $14 for adults and $13 for seniors and children's tickets. Email ted.bartlett@aviary.org or call 412-258-9433.
⢠Jennings Environmental Center is holding a homeschool CSI event from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on Nov. 8. Participants ages 5 and older will use a home version of a CSI investigator kit to create a bird-related citizen science project. Cost of the program is $3 per person. Enrollment is limited. Pre-registration required by Nov. 4. Email jenningssp@pa.gov or call 724-794-6011
⢠The Covered Bridge Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society is hosting its 11th Annual Conservation Sportsmen's Banquet on Nov. 9. The banquet is at Bella Sera in Canonsburg, beginning with a social hour at 5:15 p.m., then dinner at 7:15 p.m. Individual membership and dinner tickets are $75. Two dinners will cost $135. Other dinner packages are available, and proceeds will be used to enhance the ruffed grouse's habitat. Visit ruffedgrousesociety.org or call Lisa Rossi at 724-693-9032.
