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Powdermill
announces dates for Summer Camp program
Powdermill
Nature Reserve's renovated
Headquarters and Visitor Center now open
The Ligonier Echo, 12/3/2007
Click here for photos from the opening event!
Powdermill
Nature Reserve's $5M expansion nearly finished
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 7/29/2007
Powdermill
Nature Reserve offers The Green Cycle: Planting the
Future of Wastewater
Press Release, 3/27/2007
David
Smith named interim co-director of Carnegie Museum
The Ligonier Echo, 1/25/2007
Innovative
Marsh Machine at Powdermill explained
The Ligonier Echo, 10/26/2006
New
Bird-Banding Record, from "Generally Speaking" by
Rick Schwab
The Ligonier Echo, 10/26/2006 |
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 Since
1960, the staff at Powdermill has been manually taking
weather observations seven days a week as a cooperator
for the National Weather Service. As part of an ongoing
effort to collect more scientifically valuable data for
research on Powdermill, PNR wanted to get weather data
on a much more frequent basis than once a day, and furthermore,
to collect it automatically (no more coming in to take
weather data at 8 a.m. on your day off!). So, they decided
to go automatic and bought a wireless Vantage Pro 2 Plus.
Not only does it provide basic temperature and rainfall
weather data, as the old system did, it now provides humidity,
barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, dew point,
solar energy, solar radiation, UV, and soil moisture and
temperature. The data are saved every minute on a computer
locally and will eventually be part of an entire weather
network to monitor air, soil, and water conditions reserve-wide,
and will be transmitted to the new nature center. It is
also uploaded every 2.5 seconds online to weather underground.
Check
it out for yourself!
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KPARECTO2 |
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Congratulations
to the Common Loons, winners of the 2007 Shaver’s
Creek Birding Cup!
Powdermill’s Mike Lanzone and Trish Miller, members of team “Common
Loons”, competed and won this year’s contest among teams of birders
to identify the most number of bird species in an area near State College,
PA in a twenty-four hour period. Funds raised by the Loons, who surpassed their
goal and counted 144 bird species, will be used to support the Golden Eagle
project which Powdermill and the National Aviary are collaborating on (learn
more at http://www.aviary.org/csrv/eaglePA.php).
Asked about the most exciting species found, Lanzone and Miller agree that
it was the elusive American Bittern, whose low and distinctly eerie call carries
across the marshy areas it inhabits. The Common Loons, who birded mostly in
Centre County in this year’s contest, have participated and won in four
previous years.
Competing
in the same event, 2nd PA Breeding Bird Atlas field crew
staff member Lewis Grove of team “Birding the Midnight
Oil” won first place in the County category. Grove listed
the Surf Scoter and Henslow's Sparrow as two of his favorite
sightings. Click here for details of the contest: http://www.wpsu.org/radio/features.php;
for a sound clip recently aired on NPR, click here: http://wpsx.ois.psu.edu/www/pspb.org/podcast/files/features/Birding.mp3. |
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Richard
King Mellon Foundation Awards $3 Million Grant for Powdermill
Nature Reserve Sustainability Project
 Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh announced that the Richard King Mellon
Foundation has awarded a $3-million grant in support of
the Powdermill Sustainable Facilities Development Project,
which will transform Carnegie Museum of Natural History's
Powdermill Nature Reserve into the "nature center of the
future."
"The
Foundation is pleased to be able to participate in the
expansion and renovation of Powdermill Nature Reserve," said
Seward Prosser Mellon, President of the Richard King Mellon
Foundation. "The new and upgraded facility will utilize
environmentally friendly, sustainable technologies that,
in turn, will attract an increasing number of visitors,
particularly those who wish to see and learn about green
design."
Click
here to read the entire Press Release on the Carnegie
Museum of Natural History Web site. |
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Powdermill
will again be open by special permit during
archery, muzzleloader, flintlock, and traditional rifle
seasons. To help thin the deer herd, please download the
letter and application below, and return the application
with your donation to support wildlife research at Powdermill.
– Letter
to hunters
– Application |
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 Powdermill
Nature Reserve's Currents Connecting Cultures program
was named a winner in the 2006 Western Pennsylvania Environmental
Awards. These awards recognize and honor outstanding accomplishments
in various environmental initiatives throughout western
Pennsylvania.
Click
here to read the press release on the Carnegie Museum
of Natural History Web site.
Photo:
Theresa Rohall, left, accepts award on behalf of PNR |
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