Kristina Serafini | Tribune-Review
Trees and wildflowers are seen from a trail along the former Churchill Valley Country Club, now a green space in October. Allegheny Land Trust received a $1 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which will go toward their efforts to preserving the green space.
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Two years and $3 million of fundraising later, the Allegheny Land Trust has reached its goal to purchase the former Churchill Country Club, the nonprofit announced Thursday – which serendipitously fell on Earth Day.
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“Prairies are sometimes called ‘upside-down forests,’ because so much life is below the ground,” says narrator Penny Preston in the new documentary “The Last Prairie,” about the Jennings Prairie in Slippery Rock.
It’s a beautiful image that implies there’s often more than meets the eye in the natural world. At 20 acres, the Jennings Prairie is just a tiny sliver of land. It seems like a picturesque meadow tucked inside the Jennings Environmental Education Center but it’s actually a small but complete prairie ecosystem. It is the only public and protected prairie in Pennsylvania.
From “The Last Prairie” by Wild Excellence Films.
Kristina Serafini | Tribune-Review
Trees and wildflowers are seen Oct. 15 from a trail along the former Churchill Valley Country Club, now a green space. Allegheny Land Trust received a $1 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which will go toward its efforts to preserve the green space.
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The Allegheny Land Trust has until March 31 to raise another $630,000 in order to close on a deal to preserve 148 acres of vacant land at the defunct Churchill Valley Country Club.
Despite nearly two years of raising money to reach the