Family Walk About: Nature in Winter
On Sunday, December 11, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m, just 8 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve is hosting a "Family Walk About" to discover how nature copes with the onset of the winter season. You and your family can learn to identify plants and animal signs in the field. Reservations are required, and can be made by calling (412) 963-6100. Space is limited to 25 persons. There is a charge of $3 per member; $4 per nonmember.
Beechwood Farms, headquarters of the Audubon Society of W. Pa. (ASWP), is located at Western Pennsylvania Conservancy's 134-acre nature reserve on Dorseyville Road. It includes a variety of habitats that can be enjoyed at any season. Beechwood is the largest private nature reserve in Allegheny County. The original 90 acres for the reserve were given to the WPC in 1976 by Mrs. John F. Walton, Jr., and Mr. & Mrs. Joshua C. Whetzel, Jr.
Beechwood was preserved not because of its unique habitats, but because its landscape typifies much of western Pennsylvania and can be used for environmental education. It represents habitats fast disappearing due to development. The hilly terrain encompasses parts of two valleys, one overlooking the Allegheny River Valley. During the early 1900's, Beechwood was a 400-acre farm owned by Senator William Flynn. Fence rows and old fruit trees are reminders of that era. Although the raw land is still owned by WPC, the nature center is owned by ASWP, who manage the land as a diversity of habitats: fields, thickets, forests, a pond and two intermittent woodland streams. Two miles of walking trails traverse this landscape.
Photo by WPC's Kara Wienand.
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