Photo of the Week
For the Week of October 5, 2002

Your WPC Membership Helped Purchase Nearly 1,000 Acres of Premier Elk Habitat

What was once a 213-acre farm is now a state gameland because Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) joined with three partners to permanently protect the elk's home range and make it accessible to you.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation contributed funds that allowed WPC to buy the Elk County property. The land, like the 780 acres WPC purchased before it, has been transferred to the Game Commission, who will maintain and improve the elk habitat. One of Pennsylvania's premier wildlife species has a home because WPC members made it their business to protect them.And that is what WPC members have been doing for seventy years. We have purchased more than 280,000 acres since we began in 1932. Ohiopyle, McConnells Mill, Moraine, Oil Creek and Laurel Ridge state parks all were purchased and protected by WPC.

• Dan Brauning of the Pa. Game Commission introduces a four-week-old peregrine chick to young children at a recent banding event on the 37th floor of Pittsburgh's Gulf Tower. Also includes links to a site that tracks two Gulf Tower peregrines as they explore the northeastern United States.
  
  
• Architect Edgar Tafel, the only surviving Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice who worked on Fallingwater, returned on Saturday, August 24th for "An Enchanted Evening at Fallingwater."

• 20,000 bats emerging from abandoned Canoe Creek Church near Altoona