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A Memorial Day Weekend Hike on Mount Nittany
Leon Kolankiewicz, Mount Nittany Conservancy board member and organizer of the Mount Nittany Hikers Meetup group, led a natural history hike up Mount Nitany on Sunday, May 28th. The hike was led on behalf of Centred Outdoors, a project of the ClearWater Conservancy and drew more than 30 participants. Leon led about a 3-mile loop hike, up to and along the crest, and stopped frequently to talk about such topics as Mount Nittany’s geology and ecology as well as trees,…
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Mount Nittany Conservancy Surpasses $15,000 in its 2023 Centre Gives Campaign
Thank you to all who contributed to the Mount Nittany Conservancy’s 2023 Centre Gives campaign! We were grateful to surpass our ,000 fundraising goal thanks to the support of 78 donors. We set many records for our Centre Gives participation this year. We achieved 50% growth in gifts over 2022’s total of ,330, and we set an all-time record with 78 unique contributing donors, shattering our 2021 record of 70 unique donors. We also achieved record giving participation from our…
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Mount Nittany Trails Added to Google Street View
Thanks to the generous donation of time and resources from Mount Nittany Conservancy board member Brian Stouffer and his company TurnKey Logistics, all of Mount Nittany’s public trails are now captured on Google Street View. Whether you are a regular hiker or haven’t made it up the Mountain in many years, you can explore all of Mount Nittany’s trails using the street view feature, navigating images up and down the trails. Simply go to Google Maps and drag the yellow…
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Mount Nittany Hikers Meetup.com Group Launches
The Mount Nittany Conservancy recently formed a group on Meetup.com — a platform designed for members of local communities to meet new people and pursue their mutual passions together. The group, called Mount Nittany Hikers, hopes to organize all who love the Mountain and the outdoors. The service will coordinate group hikes for those who want to get to know Penn State’s picturesque Mount Nittany and Her trees, trails, and views. We recently held our first group hike, led by…
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Looking Up at Mount Nittany, Wherever We May Be
As summer quickly fades and the fall season approaches us, it’s important to take a moment and reflect. Mount Nittany serves many purposes for the inhabitants of the Nittany Valley, but as the winds of change draw nearer, one can look ahead and see those physical effects of seasonal change reflected in the Mountain. Currently, the leaves of the trees who call the Mountain home still vibrantly display the lush green of summer. Slowly, but surely, her leaves will begin…
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Celebrating Centre Foundation’s 40th Anniversary and Mount Nittany’s Future
The Mount Nittany Conservancy has partnered with Centre Foundation for many years. Centre Foundation stewards more than 0,000 in Mount Nittany-focused endowments thanks to the love and generosity of so many across so many years. These endowed funds produce annual revenue that contributes toward the all-volunteer Mount Nittany Conservancy’s annual budget. Centre Foundation provides the Mount Nittany Conservancy stability and sustainability for our continuing work to conserve the Mountain for Penn Staters, Central Pennsylvanians, and all friends of nature. Gifts…
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Mount Nittany Conservancy Surpasses $10,000 in its 2022 Centre Gives Campaign
Thank you to all who contributed to the Mount Nittany Conservancy’s 2022 Centre Gives campaign! We were grateful to surpass our ,000 fundraising goal thanks to the support of 55 donors. Although our total number of 55 donors was down this year compared to 2021’s 70 donors, our total raised this year of ,330 marked an increase over 2021’s ,777 raised. In 2020, by comparison, we raised ,625 from 62 donors. Centre Gives is a unique online giving event in…
