Red Creek Wildlife Center

Peggy was a featured speaker at the Pennsylvania continuing education symposium for wildlife rehabilitators.

Red Creek Wildlife Center incorporated as a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Organization.

Red Creek was granted permission to rehabilitate White-Tailed Deer by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Acting on the history of hostility between rehabilitators and the PGC, as a member of the BOD of the PAWR, Peggy opened up talks between rehabilitators and the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Red Creek published a manual on wildlife capture and transport. The Pennsylvania Game Commission adopted this manual as the new state guidelines for people permitted to respond to wildlife emergencies.

Peggy instructed all-day seminars at several wildlife rehabilitation conferences including Pennsylvania and New York on wildlife capture and transport.

Morrie received a Wildlife Capture and Transport permit from the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Peggy was an invited speaker at several state wildlife rehabilitation conferences including Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York, and was the featured, all-day speaker at the Patuxent National Wildlife Center in Maryland.

Red Creek successfully rehabilitated and released a Bald Eagle that has suffered organophosphate poisoning.

Peggy was invited by the Pennsylvania Game Commission to teach Dispatcher classes on handling wildlife emergency calls.

In 1999 the Pennsylvania Game Commission created a special permit for the rehabilitation of Endangered Species. Red Creek was grandfathered under their original permit. Red Creek gained official, up-to-date certification for the rehabilitation of endangered species in 2005.

Along with other Schuylkill County organizations, Red Creek partnered with Waste Management, Inc. to develop a plan for the creation of a wildlife education center at the Ravine landfill site. This resulted in the Pine Grove Landfill becoming certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission adopted Red Creek’s computer flash program “Help, I Found an Animal” as a tool available to all state PGC dispatchers when dealing with phone calls about foundling wildlife.

Red Creek, representing the interests of a Canadian Lynx, successfully helped prosecute a case of animal cruelty against its former owner.

Red Creek partnered with the newly formed Schuylkill County Animal Rescue Team (SCART), a FEMA organization dedicated to helping animals in times of disaster. Both Peggy and Morrie were appointed to the Steering committee.

Morrie was elected as the Public Information
Officer for SCART.

Red creek received a menagerie permit from the Pennsylvania Game Commission for educational use of the Canadian Lynx. This permit will no longer be available to rehabilitators in 2008, but Red Creek’s permit status will be grandfathered.

Peggy taught a public speaking class at Princeton University.

Stackpole Books has contracted to publish the manual and it will be available in bookstores the summer of 2009.

Red Creek received its 2 year determinatin by the Internal Revenue Service and remains a 501c3 charitable organization.

Red Creek begins the immense project of building a wildlife rehabilitation and education center which will be a working classroom for future wildlife rehabilitators.