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Give a Holiday Gift with Meaning

This holiday season, we hope you will consider one of our “wishes” below for a special gift. You can even make your gift in honor of a loved one who also cares about our region.

Here are a few examples of the work that you could help to accomplish through a special holiday gift.

• • Keeping Fallingwater Open to the World $1,500 provides a named scholarship for a student’s summer residency internship. $500 gives 20 area schoolchildren the opportunity to experience Fallingwater through its onsite educational program.

 

• • Protecting Our Water $2,000 can install a stream crossing on a farm for livestock. $600 would plant as many as 50 trees along streams to curb erosion.

 

• • Protecting Nature Through Science $1,350 funds three days of a WPC scientist’s field work, documenting rare species such as the golden-winged warbler, mountain chorus frog or eastern hellbender salamander.

 

• • Caring for and Protecting Land $2,000 helps to protect up to an acre of a Western Pennsylvania property by funding surveying, staffing and other costs. Gifts can help build the legal defense fund that ensures the Conservancy can uphold conservation easement standards on its protected properties, and meet national accreditation standards.

 

• • Bringing Nature to Communities $1,000 purchases six street trees for a Pittsburgh-area neighborhood. $500 funds two days of Scientists in Schools programming that introduces school children to natural science.

You can make your gift over the phone (1-866-564-6972), via check sent in the envelope found in the magazine, through our website (WaterLandLife.org/Legacy).

You may also make a gift of appreciated stock as a tax-advantaged way to support our work. Call us for transfer information or visit WaterLandLife.org/138 for details.

In This Issue:

• A Message from the President

  • The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is in the midst of an important new ecological monitoring project associated with shale gas extraction... Click here to read more

• From Trails to Streams: WPC and Stewardship
  • For more than eight decades, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has protected some of the region’s most exceptional places. However, protection is often just the beginning of the Conservancy’s commitment to a project...Click here to read more
• Conservation Program Focuses on Proactive Watershed Protection
  • Near the headwaters of Loyalhanna Creek in Westmoreland County, the stream gently curves around a wooded bend near a private property. The quietly moving stream, with its runs, riffles and pools, is home to trout and macroinvertebrates like dragonflies, snails and mayflies...Click here to read more
• Bear Run Trails Restored
  • A group of stewardship staff and volunteers made it look deceivingly simple. They securely wrapped a three-foot-by-two-foot boulder with heavy-duty chain that fed into a manually operated hoist... Click here to read more
• WPC Gains New Tool in Invasive Species Management
  • At first glance, the rooted aquatic plant looks innocent; its floating leaves look glossy and fan-shaped and arrange themselves in large floating rosettes. In mid- to late-July, a delicate white flower emerges from the center of the rosette...Click here to read more
• Tree Tenders Care for Region’s New Trees
  • Patty Renwick frequently tours the Troy Hill section of Pittsburgh, surveying the wellbeing of her often-forgotten neighbors. She makes sure they are happy, healthy and well fed. If they get hit by a car, she straightens them with stakes and ties... Click here to read more
• Goodbye, Summer Pull-out Marks End of Season
  • For as many people who notice Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s flower gardens around the region during the height of the growing season, the other side of green stewardship often goes unnoticed. The less glamorous story is the effort behind putting the gardens to bed for the winter... Click here to read more
• Fallingwater Undergoing New Structural Monitoring
  • If visitors glance too fast, they might miss them or think they are the results of a faint marring of the paint. But as one views Fallingwater’s southeast exterior – two stories above the famous staircase to the stream and waterfall – they are noticeable...Click here to read more
• Students Experience Fallingwater Through Internships
  • A group of nine students received the opportunity during summer internships not only to study Fallingwater, but also to experience the house, the grounds and the behind-the-scenes work that keeps the site running...Click here to read more
• Field Notes: Grounded in Local History
  • The sting of the frigid late October creek water begins to subside as I sit on the rock dabbing the remaining water from my legs. I find myself getting all pensive as I put on my socks and lace my boots; history does that to me...Click here to read more
• Family’s Challenge Grant Will Double Impact of Land Conservation Donations
  • One family is continuing its longstanding leadership role in helping the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy protect the region’s best natural places. To encourage others to join in supporting the Conservancy’s land conservation and stewardship efforts, they will match donations from individuals that are designated for land conservation work as part of the Our Shared Legacy Campaign...Click here to read more
• Give a Holiday Gift with Meaning
  • This holiday season, we hope you will consider one of our “wishes” below for a special gift. You can even make your gift in honor of a loved one who also cares about our region...Click here to read more