Helping Hands for America's Lands

The staff at Jennings Environmental Center, Butler County, is looking for interested groups and individuals willing to spend a fall day pitching in at the park to celebrate National Public Lands Day. National Public Lands Day is the nation`s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands, harboring our biodiversity, that Americans enjoy. Last year nearly 80,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, planted trees and plants, and removed trash and invasive plants.

Join in on Saturday, September 24, 2005 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for the 12th annual National Public Lands Day and help in caring for our land. As a special thank-you, lunch will be provided and each participant will receive a tee-shirt commemorating the event.

Participants must be age 12 or older and must register for the program by contacting the Center at (724) 794-6011 no later than September 16. For more information, visit the National Public Lands Day web site, or call Will Taylor, Program Coordinator at Jennings Environmental Center at (724) 794-6011.

Jennings Nature Reserve was originally protected by WPC in the 1960s because of important plant and animal species and habitats. Today, this sate park facility remains a showcase of biodiversity management on state land.

Text modified from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Today's photo is courtesy of the Jennings Nature Center.

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