Fallingwater: Beautiful from Every Angle |
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One of the most amazing aspects of Fallingwater is that the house presents dramatically different views and shadows depending on your vantage point.
Autumn is a wonderful time to examine those perspectives and discover Fallingwater’s intimate relationship with the landscape.
Take an interior guided tour through November 29 or on weekends in December. Exterior guided tours are available through October 31. |
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Share Your Trivia Knowledge! |
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Are you a walking encyclopedia or is your brain just full of interesting tidbits? Attend our second annual Trivia Night fundraiser, hosted by WPC’s Emerging Leaders Advisory Committee, featuring trivia by Drew’s Clues!
Join us Thursday, October 8, from 7-9 p.m. at Mondays Brewing in Pittsburgh's Greenfield neighborhood for drinks and prizes .
Support WPC’s natural heritage program and its work protecting our region’s animals, rare plants and habitats! |
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Care for Nature in October |
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Volunteer to care for nature!
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October 10: Help us plant flowers at a RADical Days event in our community garden in Pittsburgh's Mt. Washington neighborhood. Staff will provide a demonstration. Allegheny Regional Asset District funding makes our flower gardens possible in Allegheny County!
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October 17: Help us blaze and begin cutting a trail at our Wattsburg Fen Natural Area in Erie County.
Watch for more opportunities during fall. |
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Help People Get on the Water |
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Does your community need a new or improved site where people can easily access a stream or river to paddle?
Apply through November 13 for a WPC Canoe Access Development Fund grant of up to $5,000. Our staff provides technical assistance as needed. Your watershed organization, municipality or community group can improve water access.
Apply and learn about the fund, established and generously supported by WPC donors Roy Weil and Mary Shaw. |
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Get Trees for Communities or Your Streamside Property |
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Could your community use a little more shade, a little less stormwater runoff and a few more birds singing?
Apply now for free trees to be planted in spring 2027 through TreeVitalize Pittsburgh.
Or maybe you own streamside property and want to filter pollutant runoff, cool the stream for fish or prevent streambank erosion.
Click below to apply through June 2027 for free native riparian tree plantings. |
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Help These Three Animals Survive Winter |
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When cold winds blow and snow flies, animals’ instincts help them survive.
For example, bats hibernate, some birds migrate and some insects nest in leaves and plant stems. Unfortunately, humans often disrupt these processes, aggravating declines in populations.
You can take simple actions to help! Here’s what to do about bats in your attic, and actions to help birds during migration. Click below to help insects and bees survive winter. |
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Download Fall Images |
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Visit one of WPC’s 47 preserves, such as Toms Run Nature Reserve (pictured here), as trees’ autumn colors reveal themselves.
Those colors exist in spring and summer…we just can’t see them until fall! During fall, low temperatures and limited sunlight make green chlorophyll scarce in tree leaves, revealing yellow and rich orange (xanthophyll and carotenoid) pigments.
Meanwhile, leaf sugars convert to red and purple (anthocyanin) pigments. Drier, colder days make for more color.
Download this and other fall images. |
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Register for the November mussels webinar 
