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Watershed Conservation Program
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WPC’s Watershed Conservation Program is dedicated to watershed conservation issues and to providing a full range of services to the community. WPC participates in a wide range of efforts including watershed conservation plans, watershed restoration projects, bathymetry initiatives, water trail mapping, algae studies and many other activities.
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Community Gardens and Greenspace
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Environment
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WPC's Community Gardens project encompasses 140 sites in 20 counties. Working with 320 groups and over 10,000 volunteers, WPC sustains sites through funding, design, site preparation, technical assistance and volunteer coordination. In addition to gardens, WPC implements several other approaches to community greening. WPC’s Community Gardens and Greenspace Program recently completed an assessment of greening opportunities in downtown Pittsburgh, and has begun to implement improvements through beautiful planters and hanging baskets. WPC also launched an initiative to green the Pittsburgh Public School campuses; plantings began in late 2008. Finally, WPC partners with neighborhoods, DCNR, the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest to provide trees along our streets and community parks through TreeVitalize.
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Fallingwater
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Arts, Culture & Humanities
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Voted the most important building of the 20th century in a poll conducted by the American Institute of Architects, Fallingwater is Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterwork. The "house over the waterfall" was entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy by Edgar Kaufmann jr. in October, 1963. Included with this generous gift were 500 acres surrounding the beautiful Bear Run Valley.
In 2009, more than 155,000 people visited the house and grounds of Fallingwater. As a symbol of living in harmony with nature, Fallingwater offers a wide variety of educational programs for students of all ages and adults. The Bear Run Nature Reserve surrounding Fallingwater, expanded over the years by WPC, now encompasses more than 5,000 acres.
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Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program
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Environment
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Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program (PNHP) is a partnership of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC), the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC), and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC). Its mission is to provide scientific information, expertise, and assistance to support the conservation of biological diversity. The PNHP staff at WPC have responsibility for the inventory and monitoring of species of special concern (both state and federal) and exemplary natural communities; maintenance of the Pennsylvania Natural Diversity Inventory (PNDI) database, which contains records for species and communities of special concern; and provision of conservation services to various entities in the Commonwealth. Data collected by PNHP staff and other data maintained in the PNDI database are used by state and federal natural resource agencies for environmental review and also by planning agencies for land-use planning and protection.
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Land Conservation and Stewardship
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Environment
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The beautiful and varied landscapes of Western Pennsylvania range from high plateaus and mountain ridges to vast forests and rich river valleys. These lands and waterways provide bountiful recreational opportunities and support local economies. They also sustain native plants, animals and ecosystems that, in some cases, are found nowhere else on earth. Using science and information as our guide, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has prioritized the landscapes that we seek to conserve in order to maximize the impact of our work. To date, WPC has conserved over 228,000 acres in Western Pennsylvania.
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