PA Natural Heritage Program Provides Wild Heritage News Update

The PA Natural Heritage Program's Summer Wild Heritage News is now available to provide an update on recent program activities.   Major initiatives highlight, include--

-- Life On A Boulder Field

-- Green Isn't Always Good - Invasive Species

-- When Life Gives You Rhus, Make Rhusade!  Sumacs In PA

-- 15th Anniversary Of PA Natural Heritage Program Merger

-- Bog Turtle Conservation and Management

-- Characterizing Floodplains Along The Lehigh River

-- Community Scientist Contributes To Invasive Species Control

-- Feeding A Picky Eater

-- Two New Publications--

     -- USGS: Science Needs Of Southeastern Grassland Species Of Conservation Concern

     -- USGS: Improving Species Status Assessments Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

-- Update On Ecological Assessment of Allegheny County Parks

Click Here to read the entire Summer Wild Heritage News.

PNHP is a partnership between the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,

the Game Commission, the Fish and Boat Commission,

and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

For more information on this program, visit the PA Natural Heritage Program website.  

The Program gathers and provides information on the location and status of important ecological resources-- plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, ecological communities and geologic features--   and offers DEP permit applicants the PA Conservation Explorer tool to help applicants identify endangered plants and animals.

[Posted: September 1, 2021]  PA Environment Digest