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Video: Remembering Earth Day

4/22/2010 // Larry Schweiger

Forty years ago on the first Earth Day, I took a hundred college students to see Pennsylvania’s last nesting bald eagle at Conneaut Marsh. The eggs failed to hatch because of DDT. We eventually won that battle. Read more on… Read more >

Earth Day Flashback: 30 Years of Working to Preserve PA’s Wildlife

4/16/2010 // NWF

This column by Larry Schweiger, then president & CEO of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, originally ran in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 23, 2000, marking the 30th annual Earth Day. With the 40th Earth Day set for April 22, 2010,… Read more >