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Business Highlight: Stone Mountain Adventures
Stone Mountain Adventures (SMA) is a co-ed outdoor-recreation-focused summer camp for teens located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, outside the village of Donation (between State College and Huntingdon). The camp was

New Funding for PA Trails
This post was written by Patrick Starr, Executive VP at the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. It was originally published on PEC’s blog. Recently, the final round of Delaware Valley Regional Planning

Public Lands Ride: Back for 2021
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council’s Public Lands Ride seeks to celebrate and showcase the wealth of public parks and forests across the Commonwealth, bringing awareness to public lands as an invaluable

Podcast: Trails on Film
Filmmakers Jesse Sampley and Matt Deneen discuss their film, “A Community Conservation Effort,” featured in the 2021 Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour stop in Pennsylvania, on the PEC

Podcast: The New Landscape for Trails
Frank Maguire, PEC Program Director for Trails & Recreation discusses PEC’s newly updated research on how the COVD-19 pandemic has impacted trail use across Pennsylvania on the PEC podcast. Produced

Report: Sustained Increase in PA Trail Use Throughout Pandemic
When Pennsylvania went into lockdown in March of 2020, PEC began studying how the COVID-19 pandemic was affecting trail use in Pennsylvania, and how trail managers were coping with those
