Powdermill is alive! We have completed and taken up occupancy in our new $5 million headquarters facility. Three major new exhibits are featured in the building: the Living Stream, demonstrating the purity of the recycled water from our second exhibit, the Marsh Machine wastewater treatment system; and the long-anticipated Birds of the Ligonier Valley avian exhibit. Our first William and Ingrid Rea Conservation Biologist, Dr. Andy Mack, has joined the staff and has already begun new initiatives focused on our mission of research, education, and preservation. Ongoing facility and infrastructure improvements continue as we attract more researchers and expand educational programming.

Our challenge is to run two distinct fund raising efforts at the same time – The Campaign for Powdermill and the Annual Fund campaign. While we ask our friends to make generous, one-time contributions to the capital campaign, we must also depend on your generosity to help us pay the bills for all the daily expenses upon which the important work of Powdermill depends.

Your gift helps make it possible to fulfill our mission of

Research to help us better understand the ecology and biodiversity of the Ligonier Valley and the mid-Appalachian region;

Education to communicate scientific research and the critical interdependence between humans and the environment; and

Preservation to steward the land we hold.

You can feel the sense of excitement and possibilities in the air at Powdermill! We hope you will help us to continue this momentum with your generosity by making a tax-deductible donation. Your gift in any amount may be made payable to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and designated for Powdermill Nature Reserve on the memo line. Please specify either the Annual Fund or the Campaign for Powdermill and mail to Powdermill Nature Reserve, Attention David A. Smith, Ph.D., Director, 1847 Route 381, Rector, PA 15677.

Powdermill is indeed alive!