Clarion Conservation District

06/01/2026

06/01/2026

Check out this awesome native garden tour event put on by our local Seneca Rocks Audubon Society! The Clarion Conservation District’s public rain gardens will be one of the stops! Come see us! 😃

05/31/2026

05/27/2026

On Saturday, May 16th, 20 people gathered for a Forestry Walk at the Rimersburg Rod & Gun Club in Rimersburg, PA that included presentations on sustainable forestry practices for a changing world such as deer exclusion fences to increase forest regeneration, invasive species removal (both mechanical and chemical), and more! This event was coordinated by the Clarion Conservation District.

Special thanks to our knowledgeable partners who presented during the walk: Levi Thompson, Service Forester with DCNR Forestry Bureau; Dave Cole, Previous Service Forester/Currently PA Department of Agriculture; Kelly Culbertson, Cook Forest Conservancy; Emily Rojik, Educator with Penn State Extension; and Brian Slagle, Retired U.S. Forest Service/Rimersburg Rod & Gun Club secretary.

Participants all received a beautiful native tree from TWIGS Tree Nursery with a tree stake and tube and five lucky winners of the raffle received an “Invasive Species Removal Kit” that included a shovel, loppers, pick mattock, gloves, safety glasses, spray bottles, compostable trash bags, etc.

Thank you to the Rimersburg Rod & Gun Club for providing the venue/land to host the walk!

Financial support for the “Enhancing Climate and Water Education in Clarion County” project has been provided by the Department of Environmental Protection’s 2025 Environmental Education Grant Program.

Additional financial support was received through a Remake Learning Days mini grant- thank you Riverview Intermediate Unit #6 for all you do to make Remake Learning Days happen!

05/26/2026

A local naturalist, author, and hawk watcher will discuss Pennsylvania butterflies during a free June program in Clarion…

05/21/2026

Join our team! For more information and/or to apply, go to pacd.org.

05/18/2026

Redbank primary/intermediate students enjoyed “petting a worm” from the vermicompost bin and “getting their hands dirty” with a soil texturing activity as they learned all about SOIL & COMPOSTING from the Clarion Conservation District at the recent Springfest days held by the schools on May 8th and May 15th.

05/18/2026

On May 7th, about 150 local elementary students and their teachers gathered at Cook Forest State Park for an Eco Day/Elementary Trout Release for schools participating in the Trout in the Classroom program. The Clarion Conservation District (CCD) coordinated the event. The students released the trout in the morning and then rotated through environmental education stations for the remainder of the day.

Stations were:
🐟Aquatics led by CCD staff, Dr. Andy Turner, & PennWest Clarion University Students
🌲Natural History of Cook Forest led by Dale Luthringer, DCNR Environmental Education Specialist at Cook Forest SP
🔍Nature Bingo/Career Ready PA with Kelsi Wilcox-Boyles, Riverview Intermediate Unit #6 and North Clarion Chief Science Officers
🐻Black Bears led by Alex DiCicco, Pennsylvania Game Commission Game Warden
🌳Forestry led by Amy Shields, Executive Director of Allegheny Hardwood Utilization Group (AHUG)

Special thanks to all of the teachers and the group leader volunteers LouAnn Steiner, Ben Brobst (IU6), Donna Zofcin (Forest County CD), and Tricia Mazik (Clarion CD). Thank you to Kronospan for donating White Oak tree saplings for each of the students, teachers, and volunteers to take home!

Nature photo collage credit: Kelsi Wilcox-Boyles and students participating in Nature Bingo 🙂