Organizations Filed Purposes:
Natural resource conservation and rural development
Tourism - To increase tourism opportunities for our region, we worked on planning and co-hosting the 5th annual Nature Art Showcase, recruiting over 60 artists to display 119 art pieces representing the natural and recreational assets of northwestern PA, through diverse media, which were displayed and available for sale. We also hosted the Warren County Winterfest event, a family friendly winter festival to provide recreational opportunities with winter sports and help raise funds for the Salvation Army. We assisted with raising funds for the rehabilitation of a popular hiking trail which connects a campground at Chapman State Park with the North Country National Scenic Trail. We improved another hiking trail and installed an information kiosk in Erie Bluffs State Park. We also installed a scale model of the famous St Louis Gateway Arch and a self-service video kiost at the Warren County Visitors Bureau which will serve as a permanent monument to record the history of Warren, PA, being the Birthplace of the Gateway Arch. This new monument will tell the historic story and honor the 280 local laborers who fabricated the stainless steel sections which were shipped from Warren PA to St Louis, MO where they were assembled to form the Gateway Arch National Park. We also partnered with the Allegheny Outdoor Club to host a group of foreign refugees to visit and learn about our natural resources within our region to improve tourism opportunities and the local economy.
Soil/Water Conservation - Worked to improve planning and installation of soil and water conservation practices to benefit water quality, control erosion, improve crop and forage production management, and improve nutrient management application by agricultural producers. We also provided technical assistance to land users interested in enrolling lands in the wetland reserve program to create additional wildlife habitat and improve water quality and quantity management. We hosted two educational field days for livestock producers to help them manage their grasslands more effectively to improve soil health and profitability of their farming operations. We began a project to evaluate water quality and develop a Coldwater Heritage Conservation Plan for Pithole Creek, a tributary of the Allegheny River, a federally designated National Recreation and Scenic River. We also provided one on one consultive assistance with livestock producers from a paid consultant and numerous educational presentations to help producers better understand management opportunities for private landowners to manage their lands better, protect the environment, improve water quality management, and increase economic returns from their lands.
Economic development - We partnered with the Assoc. of Warm Season Grass Producers to conduct a marketing campaign that highlights the economic and environmental benefits from using warm season grass and how using these alternative crops adds to the sustainablity and profitablity of PA's farms and farm communities. Warm season grass performs better than traditionally used materials such as bedding straw or sawdust for example. The Assoc of Warm Season Grass Producers launched a marketing campaign throughout PA's farming community to educate and promote the many economic and environmental benefits of warm season grass usage, will help farmers begin using warm season grass in their farming operations, will develop a catalogue of growers and sellers in each county in PA, and will present the project's marketing results and grass producer's catalogue to the farm community. A second phase of this project is being developed to design and build a mobile poultry bedding processing machine that could be demonstrated and used on multiple farms for producers to harvest and produce retail packages of poultry bedding for small scale producers. We also served to assist the Toy Shoppe of Warren, PA senior citizen volunteers who produced 1400 handmade wooden toys and demonstrated them free of charge to disadvantaged families and children's service providers in our region.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Mary Burris | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Heather Wilcox | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Cindy Morrison | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Chip Abramovic | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Donna Zofcin | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Tom Mcclure | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Kathy Dahlkemper | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Linda King | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Tracy Crawford | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ed Atwood | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Francis Weiderspahn Jr | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ed Heasley | Member | 1 | $0 |
| William Kodrich | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Elliott Lengel | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Tom Schaffer | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Marilyn Black | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Basil Huffman | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ernest Aharrah | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Scott Weikert | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Mark Muir | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Ronald Kerr | Member | 1 | $0 |
| George Freeman | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Jim Mondok | Member | 1 | $0 |
| Lance Bowes | Vice-Chair | 0 | $0 |
| Deb Frawley | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Joann Mccready | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Jack Preston | Chairman | 5 | $0 |
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