PA Environmental Professionals Host April 29 Webinar On Flood Alert System For Grafius Run In Lycoming County

The PA Association of Environmental Professionals will host an April 29 webinar on the Flood Alert System for Grafius Run in Lycoming County starting at Noon.

This webinar will explore methods to protect life and property, the shift from building large infrastructure to implementing flood alert systems, low-cost solutions for flood risk mitigation.

To reduce public safety risks and property damage caused by flooding from Grafius Run, the City of Williamsport sought technical services to determine options for flood mitigation. 

While the City’s initial goal was to construct traditional flood control infrastructure upstream, to alleviate flood risks from Grafius Run, numerous constraints identified during the preliminary alternative analysis deemed this infeasible. 

As such, an innovative alternative using a real-time flood alert system was developed and implemented in 2023, which has proved to be successful at reducing flooding within the City, while minimizing the risk to City personnel.  

The presenter will be Ghazoll Motlagh, a Penn State alumni in Civil Engineering, focused in Water Resources.  

Ms. Motlagh started her career performing levee certification assessments for PADEP, FEMA H&H mapping, and NRCS dam rehabilitation assessments.  

Continuing stormwater work in Pennsylvania, Ghaz supported Green Stormwater Infrastructure planning and design contracts with the City of Philadelphia and other neighboring communities.  

Ghaz has been leading the levee rehabilitation efforts in the City of Williamsport, assisting the community to execute a System Wide Improvement Framework (SWIF) Plan with related engineering design, funding pursuits, and construction document support.  

Click Here to register for the webinar and for more information.

For more information on programs, initiatives, workshops and other special events, visit the PA Association of Environmental Professionals website.  Click Here to sign up for regular updates on PAEP activities or Like them on Facebook.  Click Here to become a member.

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-- PA Environmental Professionals Host April 29 Webinar On Flood Alert System For Grafius Run In Lycoming County, Noon 

-- Tribune-Democrat: Night Of 1977 Johnstown Flood A Memorable Moment For Longtime St. Michael Firefighter

-- WPost: FEMA Canceling Plans To Award States Grants To Prepare Against Future Disasters; Disaster Recovery Aid Could Also Be In Jeopardy 

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“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”

-- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution  [It’s Not A Suggestion]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Pennsylvania's Margaret Mead, World Renowned Cultural Anthropologist

House Voting Schedule

April 7, 8, 9, 22, 23, 24

May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 24

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30

-- Committee Schedule

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May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13

June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

-- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events 

April 7-- House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee meets to consider House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities;  House Bill 969 (Pielli-D-Chester) requires outdoor night lighting practices that reduce light pollution from public facilities; House Bill 1089 (Steele (D-Allegheny) prohibits the supply, sale or application of sealants containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on driveways or parking lots. Room 205 Ryan Building. 11:00 a.m.  Click Here to watch online.   Read more here.

April 8--  Agenda Posted. Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  9:00 a.m. Check webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Laura Griffin, laurgriffi@pa.gov  or (717) 772-3277. [Note: Will consider accepting for study rulemaking petition increasing setbacks from shale gas wells.]  Read more here.

April 8-- Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  12:30 p.m. Check webpage for options for joining the meeting remotely.  Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov or (717) 787-8171.  Read more here.

April 22-- Agenda Posted. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg.  9:00 a.m. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams.  DEP Contact: Lindsay Byron at lbyron@pa.gov  or calling 717-772-8951.  Read more here.

April 24-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. 10:00 a.m. Click Here to join via Microsoft Teams: ID: 274 896 265 706  Passcode: GfvsJL  or telephone +1 267 332 8737  ID: 377 402 179#    Contact: Adam Walters 717-214-6548 or adwalters@pa.gov.   

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-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 29 to April 4 - Failed To Restore 3MG Water Impoundment; Failed To Get Pipeline Permits; Nearly 7 Years Without Conventional Well Spill Cleanup  [PaEN] 

-- The Center Square: Report: Pennsylvania Energy Affordability Lagging With Current Electric Generation Profile  [New Generation Just Serving Data Centers Doesn’t Help]

-- MCall: Is The Lehigh Valley Still In Drought? [Spoiler - Still A Risk]

-- Scranton Times: Keystone Landfill Tour Spurs Both Confidence, Concern

-- PennLive: Lancaster County Golf Course To Close Due To Sinkholes

-- DCNR Prepares For Busy Summer Season At State Parks, State Forests As Federal Cuts Close Federal Recreation Areas

-- PA Capital-Star: With Federal Cuts At Federal Recreation Areas, Plans For ‘Record-Breaking Summer’ For State Parks, Forests

-- NorthPennNow.com: Towamencin Named 16th PA Bird Town In Montgomery County By Audubon Society

Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Northeast PA A Hot Spot For Potential Data Centers

-- AP - Marc Levy: New Wave Of Smaller, Cheaper Nuclear Reactors Sends States Racing To Attract The Industry [PA Included]

  

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

-- Bloomberg: Natural Gas Power Plant Developers Exiting Texas Program To Kickstart Power Generation Over Cost Uncertainty, Supply-Chain Delays  [Sen. Yaw Proposed Same Program In PA]

New Federal Administration

-- WPost: FEMA Canceling Plans To Award States Grants To Prepare Against Future Disasters; Disaster Recovery Aid Could Also Be In Jeopardy 

-- The Guardian: EPA Officials Quietly Move To Reverse Bans On PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- TribLive: President’s Western PA Supporters All-In For Tariffs, Tough Talk  

-- TribLive: Protesters In Pittsburgh Join Nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ Call To Fight Policies Of President, Musk

-- TribLive: Protesters Rally At Westmoreland County Courthouse To Oppose President’s Agenda 

-- PennLive -Charles Thompson: Republican Con. Scott Perry Voices Support For President’s Tariffs; ‘There Has To Be Some Rebalancing Of The Ledger’

-- PennLive Guest Essay: As Prices Rise And Wealth Disappears, Remember Who Caused It All - By Mark Singel

-- Wall Street Journal Guest Essay: Josh Shapiro Campaigned On School Choice, In Office He Bows To Teachers Union - By Rachel Langan, Commonwealth Foundation

-- The Guardian: DOGE’s Attack On Social Security Causing ‘Complete, Utter Chaos,’ Staff Says; Agency Sent Into ‘Death Spiral’ As Cut Lead To Structural Collapse 

-- WPost: Conservative New Civil Liberties Alliance Challenges President’s Use Of ‘Emergency’ Powers To Enact Tariffs 

-- Wall Street Journal Editorial: President Owns The Economy Now, He Can Try To Blame The Fed, But The Tariff Blunder Is His Alone

-- Bloomberg: The Uncertainty Is Not Going To End; One Period Of Uncertainty Feeds Into Another Like Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Lengthen, Deepened The Great Depression

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-- Environmental Health Project Releases New White Paper: PA's Shale Gas - What We Can Do Now To Better Protect Public Health  [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Health Project: Lois Bower-Bjornson Shares Her First-Hand Experiences With Shale Gas Health, Environmental Impacts In Washington County  [PaEN] 

-- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: Still Room For Frontline Community Protections From Shale Gas Impacts In Gov. Shapiro’s ‘Lightning’ Energy Plan - By Alison Steele, Environmental Health Project 

-- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: PA Health Advocates Say Gov. Shapiro Has Let Residents Down On Shale Gas Fracking Protections

-- 7 Years Ago, People From Over 70 Households Gave First-Hand Accounts Of How The PA Shale Gas Industry Impacted Their Health, Lives And Communities To A State Grand Jury Describing The ‘Sometimes Harsh Reality’ Of These Operations  [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Hearing Board Denies EQT Shale Gas Motion To Exclude Evidence Of Medical Conditions, Toxicology Reports Related To A Landowner Appeal Of A DEP Water Supply Contamination Determination  [PaEN]

-- House Environmental Committee Meets April 7 On Bill To Establish DEP Environmental Justice Permit Review Program To Analyze, Consider Cumulative Impacts Of Pollution From Some New Facilities  [PaEN] 

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 29 to April 4 - Failed To Restore 3MG Water Impoundment; Failed To Get Pipeline Permits; Nearly 7 Years Without Conventional Well Spill Cleanup  [PaEN] 

-- DEP: Shale Gas Driller Failed To Restore 3 Million Gallon Water Impoundment, Well Site For Nearly 8 Years In Clinton County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP: Nearly 7 Year Struggle Continues To Cleanup Multiple Conventional Oil Well Spills At Site In Economy Borough, Beaver County [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Quality Board Invites Comments On Spill Notification Regulation Changes; May 15 Virtual Hearing  [PaEN] 

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission April 24 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Renewal Of 2 Shale Gas Water Projects  [PaEN] 

-- DEP To Use General Permit To Implement New Federal Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Regulation  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Announces Availability Of Air Quality General  Permit For Gaseous Fuel-Fired Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Engines (GP-16) [Copy of GP-16]

-- EPA To Hold May 6 Virtual Hearing [If Requested] On Proposed Permit For A Sandstone Development Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Lafayette Twp., McKean County  [PaEN]

-- Bradford Era: Another Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Proposed In McKean County; Hearing Will Only Be Held By Public Request  [PDF of Article]

-- TribLive: Decision On 2nd Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Plum Boro, Allegheny County To Come In June, Zoning Board Says 

-- The Allegheny Front: EQT CEO Says More Natural Gas Pipelines Coming To West Virginia As Data Centers Expand, Coal Plants Retire

-- Marcellus Drilling News: PA Supreme Court Upholds Rule Of Capture In Resurrected Trespass Case  [PDF of Article] 

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Rates Of PTSD, Depression After Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Similar To Those Found In Flint, Michigan After Water Contamination Crisis

-- Utility Dive: US DOE Offers 2 National Energy Technology Laboratory Sites In Pittsburgh For Colocating Data Centers, Related Power Plants  [PaEN]  

-- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Lawmakers Praise Homer City Power Plant/Data Center Project, But It Won’t Address The Potential Electric Grid Generation Gap

-- Wall Street Journal: Homer City Coal Power Plant Was Just Imploded To Make Way For An A.I. Data Center, The Country’s Largest Natural Gas Power Plant [PDF of Article] 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Homer City Reinventing Itself As Datacenter Campus With Lots Of Natural Gas Power To Supply It

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Homer City Coal Power Plant Site To Become A.I. Data Center With Massive Gas-Fired Power Plant 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: US DOE Secretary Hails $10 Billion Natural Gas Power Plant For Data Center In Homer City As Key To US Energy Dominance [PDF of Article] 

-- Bloomberg: Natural Gas Power Plant Developers Exiting Texas Program To Kickstart Power Generation Over Cost Uncertainty, Supply-Chain Delays  [Sen. Yaw Proposed Same Program In PA]

-- PA Capital-Star/Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Foes And Friends Of Nuclear Power Face Off Near Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant  

-- ABC27: Local Activist Files Lawsuit Against Dauphin County For Using Tax Money To Promote Restart Of Undamaged Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Reactor

-- AP - Marc Levy: New Wave Of Smaller, Cheaper Nuclear Reactors Sends States Racing To Attract The Industry [PA Included]

-- PennLive: Dauphin County Owned 228-Acre Golf Course Could Be Sold For Data Center Space

-- Wilkes-Barre Times: Northeast PA A Hot Spot For Potential Data Centers

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: How Pennsylvania Is Imagining What Our Energy Future Could Look Like 

-- Federal Agency Fires Staff, Guts $378 Million In Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funding; PA Says It Has Funding To Finish Current Season; Next Year In Doubt  [PaEN]

-- Utility Dive: President Guts $378 Million In Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Funding To States Already Approved By Congress 

-- AP: Federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Staff Fired

-- Guest Essay: The Real Waste In Pennsylvania Government - Criticizing The Right Of Citizens To Petition Their Government For Change - By Terrie Baumgardner, Resident Of Aliquippa, Clean Air Council Outreach Coordinator [PaEN]

-- PA Resources Council Blog: Join Celebration Of Earth Month By Attending April Events 

-- Wilkes-Barre Guest Essay: Earth Action Day - Unleashing Our Power For Our Planet - By Susan Bass, EarthDay.org 

-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets April 8 On Climate Action Plan, Solar Panel Recycling, Chesapeake Bay Updates  [PaEN]

-- DEP Climate Change Committee Meets April 22 On Microgrids, Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Update On Federal Clean Energy, Climate Funding Programs  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Pittsburgh Youth Respond To US Supreme Court Denying Youth Climate Lawsuit Appeal 

-- Planet Philadelphia Radio Show: April 4 - Will We Be Stuck With Dirty Fossil Fuel Forever? 4:00 p.m.

-- The Allegheny Front: Amendment To PA Solar Bill Puts Industry On Edge 

-- TribLive: Solar Projects Go Commercial, Growth Up, Power Costs Down 

-- Scranton Times: Scranton Zoners Approve City’s First Solar Energy Facility

-- TribLive: East Huntingdon Twp. Solar Farm  Ordinance Faces Court Challenge From Erie-Based Company In Westmoreland

-- Sustainable Pittsburgh: April 10 Webinar On Tracking Federal Policy Shifts & Funding Opportunities For Sustainability Initiatives  [PaEN] 

-- Inside Climate News: Faith Leaders Push Back After EPA Head Disparages Climate Action As ‘Religion’  [Includes PA] 

-- WPSU: Nearly 2,000 Top Scientists, Including Some From Penn State, Decry President’s ‘Assault’ On Science 

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Report Says Pennsylvania Poised To Be Geothermal Energy Leader

-- MCall: Bethlehem Area School District Keeps Clean Energy Rolling With Electric Buses

-- Appalachian Voices Blog: President Cutting Vital Health And Safety Services for Miners 

-- United Mine Workers: UMWA President Cecil Roberts: We Can Mine More Coal, But Who Would Buy It?  Exports Under Threat From President’s Tariffs 

-- AP: Voices From Coal Country Say Closures Of Federal Mine Safety & Health Administration Offices Will Endanger Mine Safety

-- WTAE: Hundreds Of CDC Workers Laid Off In Pittsburgh Region: ‘The Work That Was Done Here Is To Keep Everybody Safe’]

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Federal Mine Safety Research, Respirator Certification Staff At NIOSH Being Cut ‘To Make America Healthier’

-- WESA: Federal HHS Layoffs Hit NIOSH Mine Safety Research Facility Near Pittsburgh

-- TribLive: Mass Firing Of Federal Health Workers Includes Pittsburgh Region [Mine Safety Research]

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Federal National Institute Of Occupational Safety & Health’s Pittsburgh Mining Research Division Lays Off 200 Employees; Studies Worker Safety, Health Issues In Mining Industry

-- Penn State Extension Center For Agricultural Assistance Training Recognizes Sen. Martin,  Sen. Yaw For Ag Conservation Leadership  [PaEN] 

-- Lancaster Farming: PA Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program Is Helping Ag Conservation Projects Get Done

-- PA Dept. Of Agriculture Accepting Applications For Sustainable Agriculture Grants Starting April 21  [PaEN] 

-- PASA Sustainable Agriculture Begins Staff Furloughs; Federal Funding To Support Farmers Still Frozen [PaEN] 

-- PublicNewsService.org: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership To Plant 90,000 Trees This Spring Toward Its Goal 

-- Volunteers Needed!  PA Forestry Assn. Sproul State Forest Tree Planting Ramble April 12 In Centre County  [PaEN] 

-- EPA To Finalize Water Quality Standards To Protect Critical Fish Species, Clean Up The Water In The Delaware River   [PaEN]

-- WHYY: EPA Announces Commitment To Finalize Delaware River Water Quality Standard To Protect Fish [Consistent With President’s Executive Orders]

-- York Daily Record: J&K Salvage Hit With Intent To Sue Notice Over Alleged Pollution To Codorus Creek From Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper

-- Williamsport Sun: Susquehanna University Freshwater Institute Director To Speak April 9

-- PEMA, Delaware River Basin Commission Hosting 3 Middle Delaware Flood Hazard Mitigation Webinars Starting April 9  [PaEN]

-- PA Environmental Professionals Host April 29 Webinar On Flood Alert System For Grafius Run In Lycoming County, Noon 

-- Tribune-Democrat: Night Of 1977 Johnstown Flood A Memorable Moment For Longtime St. Michael Firefighter

-- WPost: FEMA Canceling Plans To Award States Grants To Prepare Against Future Disasters; Disaster Recovery Aid Could Also Be In Jeopardy 

-- The Center Square: Volunteer Fire Departments At A Crossroads In Pennsylvania

-- Altoona Mirror: Blair County Seeks Volunteers To Help Respond To Local Disaster

-- Stroud Water Research Center Highlights: Salt Rising In NYC Source Water; Farmland May Be  Source Of PFAS Chemicals In Fish; World Water Day Attracts 160+ Visitors

-- The Guardian: EPA Officials Quietly Move To Reverse Bans On PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

-- MCall: Is The Lehigh Valley Still In Drought? [Spoiler - Still A Risk]

-- Pike Conservation District: The Connection Between Groundwater And Geology

-- PennLive: Lancaster County Golf Course To Close Due To Sinkholes

-- Protecting Clean Water Together: All Those Plastics You Thought You Couldn't Recycle?  Now You Can In Monroe County - By Carol Hillestad for Brodhead Watershed Association  [PaEN]

-- Keep PA Beautiful: Sen. Comitta, Rep. Williams Honor Shakira Davis Of Coatesville, Chester County With Community Pride Award [PaEN] 

-- Litter Love: 50 Volunteers Collected 170 Bags Of Litter In Coatesville, Chester County [PaEN]

-- Keep PA Beautiful Updates Popular Litter Education Series: Open Your Eyes To Litter In A Watershed  [PaEN] 

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: PA Resources Council Household Chemical Collections Start April 12 In Butler County

-- The Nature Conservancy PA: Celebrate Earth Month With A Trash-Tastice Cleanup!  Meet Nature Renaissance Man George Gress; Celebrate Migratory Bird Day May 10 With TNC

-- WHYY: Philly DA Launches Cleaner, Greener Enforcement Unit To Target Illegal Dumping, Other Quality-of-Life Crimes 

-- Erie Times: International Recycling Group Cancels Plans For Plastics Recycling Plant In Erie Citing President’s Tariffs, Pause In US DOE Funding Commitment  [PaEN]  

-- York Daily Record: Federal Judge Finds Modern Landfill Violated Clean Water Act 419 Times In York County

-- WITF/StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: York County Landfill Found Liable For 419 Water Pollution Violations Over 4 Years

-- Scranton Times: EHB Rules DEP Erred When Approving Keystone Landfill Expansion Without Addressing Leachate, Odor Issues

-- WNEP: Environmental Hearing Board: DEP Erred Approving Keystone Landfill Expansion In Lackawanna County

-- Scranton Times: Dummore Councilwoman Raises Concerns About Keystone Landfill To Shapiro, Criticizes DEP

-- Scranton Times: Keystone Landfill Tour Spurs Both Confidence, Concern

-- DEP Issues Temporary Extension To Keystone Landfill Permit After Environmental Hearing Board Decision Saying DEP Erred In Reviewing The Landfill’s Permit

-- York Daily Record: Environmental Group Suit Alleges Brunner Island Power Plant Failed To Adhere To Coal Ash Regulations 

-- PennLive:  Environmental Group Sues Brunner Island Power Plant Owner Over ‘Toxic Waste’ Pollution

-- PA Dept. Of Agriculture Expands Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Area To Bradford, Sullivan, Venango, Wyoming Counties  [PaEN]

-- The Nature Conservancy - PA/DE Adds 509 Acres To Protected Land Along Susquehanna River Water Gaps In Dauphin County  [PaEN] 

-- MCall: Lower Macungie Twp. Hopes To Buy, Preserve Farm Site Of Controversial Proposed Development For $9.4 Million

-- DCNR Reports Campsite Reservations Up 30% As People Try To Find Alternatives To Federal Recreation Facilities Closed By Staff Cuts; Gift Certificates Available  [PaEN]

-- DCNR Prepares For Busy Summer Season At State Parks, State Forests As Federal Cuts Close Federal Recreation Areas

-- PA Capital-Star: With Federal Cuts At Federal Recreation Areas, Plans For ‘Record-Breaking Summer’ For State Parks, Forests

-- WITF/StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: State Parks Attracting More Campground Reservations As Federal Recreation Sites Close Due To Staff Cuts 

-- Inquirer: After DOGE Cuts Shutter Federal Campgrounds In PA, State Parks See Surge In Reservations

-- Williamsport Sun: PA’s Outdoor Recreation Economy Has Been Growing

-- TribLive: Trout Opener Boosts Economy, Outdoor Fun

-- Post-Gazette: Allegheny County Parks Contribute To Economy, Enhance Property Values, Support Jobs, New Study Shows 

-- DCNR Resource Highlights New Forests For All Plan; Explore PA State Parks, Forests Recreation Options; Expanding PA Outdoor Corps; Tips-Trout Season Opens April 5  [PaEN] 

-- PA Wilds Conservation Shop At Leonard Harrison State Park-- PA Grand Canyon-- Opens For 2025 Season In Tioga County 

-- Erie Times: Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation Names Barbara Chaffee CEO 

-- DCNR Grants Update: Fmr Golf Course Remade Into Public Park; Kids Introduced To Mountain Biking; Route 6 Advances To Final 4 Scenic Byways Contest; Grant Opportunities 

-- Western PA Conservancy Now Accepting Grant Applications For Canoe, Kayak Access Projects In Western PA [PaEN] 

-- April 4 Take Five Fridays With Pam, PA Parks & Forests Foundation  [PaEN] 

-- PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In March Now Available  [PaEN]

-- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature: Forest Fire Wardens Become Busy In Spring

-- KYW: EPA Grant Cuts Leave Philadelphia Community Projects At Bartram’s Garden, Elsewhere In Limbo

-- Pike Conservation District: April 26 Hikes In Pike Spring Hike On Fossil Trail At Pocono Environmental Education Center

-- WTAE: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Announces New 5-Year Strategic Plan Ahead Of 30th Anniversary

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: The Allegheny Riverfront In Pittsburgh Is A Good Resource, And Could Be Great

-- Erie Times: City Of Erie Developing Multimillion Dollar Plan To Improve City Parks

-- Reading Eagle: Registration Open For 2025 Schuylkill River Sojourn

-- WHYY: Delaware County Woods Set To Get A Loop Trail, Formal BMX Arrangement, Pavilion As County’s Largest Public Park

-- WNEP: Gearing Up For Whitewater Rafting Season In The Poconos

-- Discover NE PA: Spotting Spring Wildflowers With PA Environmental Council

-- Spotlight PA: Proposed $25 Million Cut To State Bird Flu Aid For Farmers Could Leave PA Unprepared For Surge, Republican Lawmakers Fear

-- TribLive: Game Commission Measures Antlers Statewide, One For The Record Books?

-- Rep. Stambaugh Introduces Bill To Pay For Deer, Wildlife Fencing For Farmers

-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Highlights April Events, Beginning Of Spring Migration Hawkwatch April 1

-- NorthPennNow.com: Towamencin Named 16th PA Bird Town In Montgomery County By Audubon Society

-- Tribune-Democrat: Johnstown Tree With Bald Eagle Nest Topples In Storm, Birds Survived, Warden Says

-- Patch: Doylestown Environmental Advisory Council Urging Property Owners To Turn ‘Lights Out’ For Migratory Birds In Bucks County 

-- WESA: Great Horned Owls Make Their Home At Schenley Park In Pittsburgh

-- TribLive: Raptor Presentation, Free Picnic Lunch Part Of Earth Day Event At Bradford Woods Reserve April 26 In Allegheny County 

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