Penn Soil Rc&D Council

“Form 990, part vi section b, line 11aexecutive officers will review 990 before filed. Entire board will review subsequently.”

“Form 990, part vi section b, line 12c:board chair, executive director and office manager coordinate review of conflict of interests.”

“990 is available on www.guidestar.com. The 990 and other items required for public inspection are available upon request.”

“Form 990 part iii line 4a program service accomplishments:geocaches and record the dates they found the specific geocaches on their passport as well as recording their experience and comments online. Geocachers who would find a minimum of 20 out of 28 geocaches would be able to redeem their passport documents for a free souvenir token commemorating the creation of the allegheny national forest. The project began in february of 1923 and will be active through june 23, 2024. We also did public educational presentations on the use of global positioning systems and the outdoor recreational activity of geocaching. We also partnered with the allegheny outdoor club to reprint interpretive signs in need of repair along self-guided nature trails at timberdoodle flats recreation area in the allegheny national forest and the big bend recreation area at kinzua pa. We also assisted the allegheny national forest chapter of the north country trail association relocate a section of the north country trail off of a public road onto adjacent forest land in forest county, pa by providing funding for purchase of materials used in the trail relocation project. The north country scenic trail (ncnst) is the longest in the national trails system, stretching almost 4800 miles across eight states from north dakota to vermont.in their efforts to provide a premier hiking experience, the north country trail association (ncta) has a goal to get the majority of its trails off roads. As of the end of 2020, two thirds of the ncnst met that goal. The section of the ncnst that the allegheny national forest (anf) chapter maintains has only 3.75 miles or 3.8% of its 95.7 miles of trail on roads. Of that 1.4 miles can be moved off road. The other 2.35 miles travel across bridges over large streams and rivers and will remain on road. The purpose of our work is to utilize available natural and historic resources within our region to improve tourism opportunities, provide outdoor recreation to the public, and improve the local economy. Form 990, part iii, line b, program service accomplishments:in pennsylvania. This will include measurements of seedling density, mid-season sward heights, and fall biomass yield. Promising new varieties of both switch grass and big bluestem are being released with greater yield and greater disease resistance. Little is known abouth the performance of these new varieties in the pennsylvania ecoregion. Because re-establishing perennial grass fields can be slow and risky, this project proposes to evaluate the early sward vigor and biomass yields of six new varieties. These variables will be evaluated using a strip-plot design with two replicates per farm fields provided by members of the association of warm season grass producers. We also partnered with the us forest service to advance the study of carbon modeling in forest management studies in pa and md and expanded the program to provide additional educational outreach and training on forest carbon management through a series of four online webinars to all state and tribal forestry agencies in region 9 of the state and private forestry section of the us forest service. We also partnered with the central electric cooperative to provide support to improving rural fire protection network through installation of two dry hydrants in ponds for volunteer fire departments in our area to improve emergency response time for fire-fighting emergencies. Form 990, part iii, line 4c, program service accomplishments:and used on multiple farms for producers to harvest and produce retail packages of poultry bedding for small scale producers. We also served as a fiscal agent for the toy shoppe of warren, pa senior citizen volunteers who produced 1800 handmade wooden toys and distributed them free of charge to disadvantaged families and childrens service providers in our region with funding support through grants and donations we received for the project. We also provided $5000 in funding for modernizatio”