Kaleidoscope Sky: author Tim Herd looks upward at June 14 park lecture

BUSHKILL — Tim Herd, author, naturalist and Monroe County resident, will deliver an illustrated talk on Saturday, June 14 at 7 p.m. at the Bushkill Visitor Center. His talk will focus on the sky’s continual and wondrous light show. Listeners will learn how to find a rainbow’s complete circle, to see spectacular but fleeting halo displays, tricky but true mirages and much more. Herd’s most recent book, “Kaleidoscope Sky,” will be available for purchase and signing by the author at the event. This free program is the first evening presentation in the Lecture Series arranged by the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and sponsored by the Friends of the Delaware Water Gap NRA, a non-profit park conservancy. Herd is also a meteorologist and the writer, broadcaster, and producer of Nature Newswatch, nationally syndicated by Copley News Service and Nature Newswatch Wildlife Almanac Productions. He is the founder of The Roving Nature Center, the country’s first mobile environmental education center. The Bushkill Visitor Center is on US Route 209 in Pennsylvania, located just south of the blinking light at Bushkill Falls Road. The program will be preceded at 6:15 p.m. by a meeting of the Friends’ membership, marking the group’s tenth anniversary year. All are welcome. Information about the group is available at www.friendsofdewa.org. The next lecture, “Ecosystem in Peril,” will be held on Saturday, July 12 at 7 p.m. at the Bushkill Visitor Center. A panel of experts will discuss the unique characteristics of hemlock ravine ecosystems and what threatens them. The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area covers nearly 70,000 acres in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, stretching along 40 miles of the Delaware River from Milford, PA, and Montague, NJ to south of the Delaware Water Gap. Information about the park and all of its programs can be found at www.nps.gov/dewa.