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website, operated by the County in 544-acre Lancaster County Central Park Latodami Nature Center at North Park: Wexford: Allegheny: Pittsburgh Metro Area: 250 acres, operated by the County Lehigh Gap Nature Center: Lehigh Gap: Carbon: Lehigh Valley: Over 750 acres with 13 miles of marked trails McKaig Nature Education Center: Wayne: Montgomery ...
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) is a private nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1932 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.WPC has contributed land to 12 state parks and conserved more than 290,000 acres of natural lands.
The Eurasian otter is the most widely distributed otter species, its range including parts of Asia and northern Africa, as well as being spread across Europe, south to Palestine. Though currently thought to be extinct in Liechtenstein and Switzerland , it is now common in Latvia , along the coast of Norway , in the western regions of Spain and ...
Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park which is located on 36 acres (150,000 m 2) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, US, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River.
Established in 1956, Powdermill serves as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations, and now forms the core of the museum's Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystems. The reserve encompasses 928.17 hectares, which includes forests (~891 hectares), fields (~21 hectares), developed land (~17 hectares), and ponds and streams (~0.36 ...
More than half of the nearly 193,000 visitors in 2023 reported the Nature Center to be a top reason for visiting Buncombe County from somewhere else in the state.
Genus Lutra – Brisson, 1762 – two species ; Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Eurasian otter Lutra lutra
Dead Man's Hollow was established as a conservation area in 1996 and is considered to be the largest privately protected area in Allegheny County. Since the mid 1990s, volunteers from Allegheny Land Trust and other non-profit conservation groups based in the Pittsburgh region have made significant progress in removing trash and debris as well ...