Halloween Treats for the Wildlife

Buchanan County Conservation is inviting you to carve pumpkins and fill them with treats for their resident animals.

The event will be held Saturday, October 25th, at Fontana Nature Center, located just south of Hazleton.

Participants may cut creative shapes into pumpkins, then fill them with nutritious snacks for the park's raccoons, fox, bison, ducks, bear, crow, coyote and turkey.

The jack-o-lanterns will then be put in the animals' enclosures, at the Fontana Park Wildlife Display.

Materials will be provided, but they do welcome donations of apples, pears, grapes and other fruit, as well as eggs, peanuts, ear corn and sunflower seeds.

Anyone interested is asked to pre-register by calling 319-636-2617; or email fontanapark@iowatelecom.net; the program is free of charge.

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