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A Message from WPC President Dennis McGrath
We are excited to bring you this issue of CONSERVE. In it we outline a conservation blueprint for Pennsylvania, our first iteration of a long-term vision for conservation success across eight regional landscapes. More...

Building a Conservation Blueprint for Pennsylvania

Those of us who live and work in Pennsylvania have been entrusted with a legacy that is as challenging as it is awe-inspiring. More...


The Upper Ohio River Basin

Including the Ohio River, the Allegheny River, French Creek, and the Shenango River

The Ohio River and its tributaries represent one of the most diverse freshwater ecosystems on earth. This is particularly demonstrated by a richness of fish and mollusk species. More...


Middle Allegheny Forests


The forested region of northwestern Pennsylvania in the vicinity of Allegheny National Forest is an extensive landscape of private and public lands. More...


North Central Forests and West Branch Susquehanna Basin


The largest and most contiguous stretches of forestlands are within the High Allegheny Plateau of north central Pennsylvania. More...

Nittany Valley

Nittany Valley lies precisely at the geographic center of Pennsylvania in Centre and Huntingdon counties between two long mountain ridges: Bald Eagle Mountain and Tussey Mountain. More...

The Juniata River

Characteristic of this landscape are folded mountains with hard Silurian sandstone tops and lower ridges of fractured Devonian shales. More...

Potomac Tributaries

South central Pennsylvania is composed of mountains of the Ridge and Valley Province (named for the parallel ridges and valleys of the Appalachian Mountains, which create an alternating pattern) and intermountain tributary watersheds of the Potomac River. More...


Laurel Highlands

The Allegheny Mountains and the northward flowing Youghiogheny River are an extension of an ecoregion starting in West Virginia and Maryland. More...

Great Lakes - Lake Erie Shoreline and Conneaut Creek

Pennsylvania’s portion of the Great Lakes ecoregion begins with its 45-mile stretch of shoreline along Lake Erie. More...

Meet Genny McIntyre

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy recently named Genny McIntyre as the organization’s first vice president for institutional advancement. More...


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