We are a member-based nonprofit dedicated to protecting and restoring the region’s waters, forests, natural areas and wildlife, planting community trees, gardens and greenspaces, and caring for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.
Happy New Year! Enjoy Winter on Our Preserves
We’re grateful for the support and generosity that you–our members, donors and volunteers–extended to us in 2021.
With your help, our staff continued conserving land, greening communities and protecting and studying wildlife, plants and streams. We appreciated the many volunteers who helped us plant gardens and trees in communities and along streams, and maintain our preserves and trails. Supporters and those recently discovering the
Conservancy’s work enjoyed free webinars that explored such topics as tracking evening grosbeaks and the impacts of invasive plants.
Thanks to your generosity, we raised much-needed funds to improve our 41 places where everyone is welcome to walk, hike, watch wildlife and spend quiet time in nature. Explore our preserves during winter and glimpse birds against a snowy backdrop, identify trees, observe animal activity and more.
We opened Fallingwater for socially distanced and masked interior tours, welcoming visitors from around the world. Our self-guided exterior tours, Winter Walks and A Closer Look livestreams have been popular, and you’ve enjoyed our free webinars, family field trips and even virtual field trips for students.
Your generous financial support has allowed us to address preservation projects, including the car bridge and bolsters, as well as prepare to undertake preservation of several major building systems.
From all of us at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and Fallingwater, thank you. We look forward to continued innovation in the new year, and wish you a wonderful, safe and happy 2022!
Watch a Webinar About Preservation of Fallingwater
Time and weather have taken their toll on the
steel, stone, glass and concrete that meld Fallingwater to its landscape, creating preservation issues. We’re preparing for a major preservation initiative to uphold our commitment to protect Fallingwater, on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Watch a webinar about current and future preservation work.
Are You Fallingwater’s Next Chef or Communications Specialist?
We’re looking for
Fallingwater’s next executive chef: a passionate, creative individual who will be inspired by great architecture and natural beauty to make fantastic cuisine, locally fresh fare and delectable desserts. We’re also hiring a marketing communications specialist: a creative, motivated person who is passionate about sharing Fallingwater’s mission.
In addition to conserving land, planting gardens and stewarding Fallingwater, the Conservancy also restores habitat, rivers and streams and important ecological lands across the region. Learn how we are improving urban tree canopies and water quality on farmlands and in local watersheds, preserving a site on the UNESCO World Heritage List and more.
It’s time to vote for Pennsylvania’s 2022 River of the Year! Finalists are the Monongahela River, Connoquenessing Creek, French Creek and Catawissa Creek. Read what makes each one special and cast your vote through Jan. 14. Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers administers the program with funding from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Download Images for Your Desktop or Virtual Meeting
Our 120-acre Cussewago Bottom Conservation Area in Crawford County is a birder’s paradise. A Pennsylvania Audubon Society Important Bird Area, this high-quality wetland features a meandering stream, bottomlands and hardwood forests and is home to at least 190 bird species, including scarlet tanagers and several species of warblers. Download this and other winter images.
A memento from Fallingwater’s natural landscape: Our Fallingwater Bowls are the artistic legacy of the late Dr. James C. Finley, who was a retired professor of forestry at Penn State University and long-time board member of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. The bowls are handcrafted from trees that have fallen onsite and turned into unique works of art. Each piece has variations in wood grain and may possess unique features such as natural burl, knots, insect holes and live edges. Limited in quantity, the Fallingwater Bowls are certain to become treasures that will be passed from generation to generation.
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
800 Waterfront Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
United States
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and 100% of your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.
