National Public Lands in Allegheny – Sept. 25, 2010

National Public Lands Day in Allegheny County is going to be an all-out effort on the part of volunteers to help maintain their public roads. Over 170,000 people are expected to participate in Allegheny County on September 25, 2010 when this plan that was proposed by the National Environmental Education Foundation is put into action.

Over a dozen sites in the Western Pennsylvania will be participating in the National Public Lands Day in Allegheny County. The environmental education foundation has designated 2010 as a time for special focus on volunteers and how they can help maintain the public areas they use for sports, recreation and enjoying the habitat.

Allegheny County has seen an increase in the number of No Trespassing signs that are being put up on private property throughout the county as well as the rest of the state. Therefore, the ability to use public lands is growing ever more valuable. Keeping public areas clean and improving the quality for the use of all residents is paramount.

The National Public Lands Day in Allegheny County (NPLD) is being sponsored by Toyota and will include about 2300 sites for clean up this year. The organizers of the event are asking hunters and anglers to help with the effort as they are among the first to see what the effects of the abuse of public land does to the wildlife and the sporting areas they enjoy using.

The Western Pennsylvania sites that will be focused on for the NPLD in Allegheny County will be:

• Various locations along the Allegheny River

• Conemaugh River Lake Trail

• Jennings Environmental Education Center Trail

• Laurel Hill State Park

• Loyalhanna Lak Trail

• North Irwin Park

• Pleasant Valley Park

• Youghiogheny River Lake shoreline

The focus of many of the efforts in these areas will include planting trees, trail improvement, maintenance, habitat improvements, painting benches and removing debris. In addition, hiking and biking trail maintenance, construction of boxes, water diversion devices and improving and extending the park trail system are planned.

The PLD is the largest interactive volunteer effort in the nation. Their goal is to improve public land and enhance the areas for the enjoyment of the American people. Volunteers numbering more than 150,000 in 2009, removed trash, planted trees, built bridges and trails and restored water resources in addition to removing plants that were threatening to take over all the other plants in an area.

These volunteers did a magnificent job and this is what they accomplished in Allegheny Country in 2009.

• They removed over 900,000 lbs of trash

• Built and maintained more than 1,320 miles of trails

• Collected approximately 20,000 lbs of aggressive plants

• Planted about 100,000 trees and other plants native to the area

In addition, the volunteers have contributed approximately $14 million to improve these public lands. This concentrated effort in Allegheny County is just a part of the effort across the state of Pennsylvania.

If you would like more information about National Public Lands Day in Allegheny County, please feel free to contact us at (410)808-7200 or visit our Contact Us page where you can send us a message.  We’ll get back to you right away!

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