February 2, 2012

Wild Heritage News

The latest issue of the PNHP Quarterly Newsletter is avialable. Our feature articles this quarter highlight the green salamander and the Butler County Natural Heritage Inventory Update. View the issue here.

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January 12, 2012

Rare Plant Forum Meeting

The Vascular Plant Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey will be holding its Rare Plant Forum on April 21 2012 at Juniata College in the Ellis ballroom. Registration details including time, location and possible field trips will be posted here and at the Rare Plant Forum website when available. Minutes from previous meetings can be found here. The Rare Plant Forum is a function of the Vascular Plant Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey, and for over thirty years has served in an advisory role to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for issues related to the conservation of the native flora of Pennsylvania. All people interested in the conservation of Pennsylvania's native flora are encouraged to attend this meeting.

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November 2, 2011

Butler 2011 County Natural Heritage Inventory Update

The Butler County Natural Heritage Inventory Update has been completed. This project was an update to the original Butler CNHI of 1991. Download a copy of the Butler report here.

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November 2, 2011

Statewide County Natural Heritage Inventory Map Update

Updated biological diversity areas in Butler, Delaware and Pike Counties have been added to the interactive CNHI map. View the updated map here.

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October 28, 2011

Wild Heritage News

The latest issue of the PNHP Quarterly Newsletter is avialable. Our feature articles this quarter highlight PNHP activities focused on the Water Shrew, Wetland Plant Community Classification, and the Pike and Delaware County Inventories. View the issue here.

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August 19, 2011

Delaware 2011 County Natural Heritage Inventory Update

The Delaware County Natural Heritage Inventory Update has been completed. This project was an update to the original Delaware CNHI of 1992. The project was funded by DCNR’s Wild Resource Conservation Fund and additional funding provided by the County. Despite several centuries of habitat modification by agriculture and development, Delaware County still retains essential fragments of distinctive habitats that support species of concern. Delaware County has 215 individual occurrences of species tracked by PNHP, including those listed as rare, threatened and endangered. It falls 19th out of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties for the number of species of concern. Two of these, bog turtle and serpentine aster, are considered globally rare. The county also contains much of the small part of the state that falls within the Atlantic Coastal Plain physiographic province and the tidally influenced portion of the Delaware River. Download a copy of the Delaware report here.

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August 15, 2011

Wild Heritage News

The third issue of the PNHP Quarterly Newsletter is avialable. Our feature articles this quarter highlight PNHP activities focused on the Northeastern Terrestrial Habitat Classification System, the Pennsylvania Rare Plant Forum, and Implementation Plans for Conservation Greenways. View the issue here.

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August 10, 2011

Climate Change Vulnerability Index Update

Climate change vulnerability assessments were conducted for 85 species in Pennsylvania using the Climate Change Vulnerability Index. The updated list can be viewed here.

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August 9, 2011

Statewide County Natural Heritage Inventory Map Update

47 new sites in Indiana county and over 400 new site descriptions throughout Pennsylvania have been added to the interactive CNHI map. View the updated map here.

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August 9, 2011

Pike 2011 County Natural Heritage Inventory Update

The 2011 update of the Pike County Natural Heritage Inventory is now available here.

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August 9, 2011

Aquatic Community Classification Map

A new interactive map features data from the Aquatic Community Classification report. View the map here.

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May 5, 2011

Wild Heritage News

The second issue of the PNHP Quarterly Newsletter is avialable. Our feature articles this quarter highlight PNHP projects focused on vernal pools and private landowners, a new web application in our County Inventory Program, and a collaborative approach to resource management in the Big Pine Flats area within Michaux State Forest. View the issue here.

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March 8, 2011

Wild Heritage News

We are pleased to provide the first issue of the PNHP Quarterly Newsletter "Wild Heritage News". This issue is the first in our new format that includes feature articles, updates from the field, and PNHP measures of progress. Our feature articles this quarter highlight PNHP projects focused on the Blanding’s turtle and Scotia Barrens. View the first issue here.

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July 30, 2010

Statewide County Natural Heritage Inventory Map

The sites of the more than 60 existing County Natural Heritage Inventory have been merged together to create a statewide planning resource. The County Natural Heritage Inventories identify, map and discus areas that support species of concern, exemplary natural communities and broad expanses of intact natural ecosystems that support components of Pennsylvania’s native species biodiversity. As of April 2011, 63 of 67 counties have been inventoried. View the interactive map here.

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July 30, 2010

Venango County Natural Heritage Inventory

The Venango County Natural Heritage Inventory report is now available. Download it here.

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May 25, 2010

Armstrong County Natural Heritage Inventory

The Armstrong County Natural Heritage Inventory report is now available. Download it here.

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January 30, 2010

Warren County Natural Heritage Inventory

The Warren County Natural Heritage Inventory report is now available. Download it here.

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Lancaster County Natural Heritage Inventory Update

Beginning with Lancaster County in 1990, PNHP has been conducting County Natural Heritage Inventories around Pennsylvania to provide comprehensive information to the counties on the rare species and important habitats within their borders to help guide planning and conservation efforts throughout the state. The County Natural Heritage Inventory Program has come full circle with the completion of the 2008 update to the Lancaster County inventory. Completed county inventories are posted online here.

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