Indiana, Pa. – Sept. 25 – The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is now seeking grant applications for new projects that will improve canoe and kayak access to the region’s waterways. WPC’s Canoe Access Development Fund helps to make the region’s rivers and streams more accessible for outdoor recreation by providing grants for developing rustic access sites…. Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY – PHOTO OPPORTUNITY Mayor Peduto to Join the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy at Community Garden Pullout WHAT: Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto will join the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy as staff members put The Point Community Garden to bed for the winter. WHEN: 9 a.m., Monday, Oct. 2 Mayor Peduto will attend the event from 10:30… Read More

Mill Run, Pa. – July 15 – The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy invites the public to enjoy Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater as the sun sets over Bear Run Nature Reserve during the 19th Annual Twilight Tour on Saturday, Aug. 23. The Conservancy is now accepting reservations for the Fallingwater Twilight Tour, concert and picnic dinner, sponsored… Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY – PHOTO OPPORTUNITY Dan Rooney To Sign Books at Fallingwater on July 19 WHAT: Fallingwater is hosting Pittsburgh Steelers leader Dan Rooney and historian Carol Peterson in the Fallingwater Museum Store as they sign their book, “Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh’s North Side.” WHEN: Saturday, July 19 12 p.m. – 2 p.m…. Read More

Mt. Oliver, Pa. – June 12 – Mt. Oliver Borough, working with Grow Pittsburgh and the Conservancy, is in the midst of creating a community vegetable garden, which will have an orchard area with fruit trees and blackberry and raspberry bushes. On Friday, water company employees and other volunteers will assist the effort by planting… Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY – PHOTO OPPORTUNITY Pennsylvania American Water, Grow Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Plant Fruit Trees in Mt. Oliver, Pa., Garden WHAT: Pennsylvania American Water, Grow Pittsburgh and a group of neighbors, together with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, will plant 10 fruit trees, including peach, plum and apple in an “orchard” section of the… Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY – PHOTO OPPORTUNITY Laurel Foundation and Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Hang Hundreds of Baskets in Downtown Pittsburgh WHAT: Funded by Laurel Foundation, the Conservancy will hang more than 400 flower baskets along the streets and bridges in the city of Pittsburgh. It takes a WPC’s garden crew an entire day to place the streetscape… Read More

North Bend, Pa. – April 28 – Hundreds of acres in Clinton County are open to hiking, hunting, fishing and other recreational activities now that the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has permanently protected a property along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. WPC acquired 466 acres in Chapman and Grugan townships, about 20 miles north… Read More