2011 Annual Report - Conemaugh Valley Conservancy

A program of the 

2011 Annual Report

The mission of the Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team is to educate and engage citizen stewards in 

maintaining, enhancing and restoring the natural resources of the Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin. 

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Conemaugh Valley Conservancy Board of Directors 

Mike Burk, President 

Mike Kane, First Vice-President 

Barry Tuscano, Second Vice-President 

Jack Maher, Secretary 

Linda Gwinn, Assistance Secretary 

Richard Burkert, Treasurer 

Kenan Kevenk, Assistant Treasurer 

Conemaugh Valley Conservancy 

Staff 

Melissa Reckner, Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team 

Director 

Elizabeth Mayer, Accounting Assistant 

Eric Null, Aquatic Biologist 

Laura Hawkins, Consultant 

Michael Quinn, Facilitator 

Jack McGuire, Trail Manager 

Grantors 

With the Conemaugh Valley Conservancy as its 501(c)3 hosting organization, the 

Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team successfully secured grants to support its mission and projects 

from the following: 

Colcom Foundation 

Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds 

GenOn Energy Services, LLC 

PA Department of Environmental Protection 

Richard King Mellon Foundation 

The Pittsburgh Foundation 

All photographs by Melissa Reckner unless otherwise noted. 

Cover: Roaring Run 

Brad Clemenson 

Leonard Hess 

Richard Mayer 

Rob McCombie 

Jerry Seitz 

Eric Sutliff 

Chris Volpe 

Mike Walker 

Conemaugh Valley Conservancy 

Conservation Committee 

Mike Burk 

Brad Clemenson 

Len Hess 

Rob McCombie 

Barry Tuscano 

Numerous individuals, organizations, businesses and partnerships also contributed to the Stream 

Team’s mission. They are listed on pages 10 and 11. Thank you for your invaluable support. 

Author: Melissa Reckner 

Editor: Gwen Johnson 

Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team 2011 Annual Report

Letter from the Director 

Dear Friends, 

I am pleased to say that the Stream Team experienced a year of growth in 2011. Not only did our 

AMD monitoring program expand to include additional treatment systems and aide to more groups, but we 

solidified our role with the Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW) and offered two 

trainings to a watershed and conservation district; we further developed and expanded the continuous water 

quality monitoring program that utilizes data loggers throughout western Pennsylvania; and we added a parttime 

employee - our first since the loss of AmeriCorps in 2009. We also continued to diversify our funding 

sources, which is extremely critical to the basic operations and sustainability of a group. 

As you’ll see in this report, the Stream Team is becoming more project focused. We want to offer 

services to watershed groups that may not have the capacity to accomplish projects themselves. Of course this 

is consistent with our past work, but we’re positioning ourselves to become more of a “fee-for-service” 

operation and are working with groups to incorporate the Stream Team as a consultant in their grant 

applications or otherwise secure financial support for our assistance. For examples, in 2011, the Paint Creek 

Regional Watershed Association utilized grant funds to pay the Stream Team to author and publish the Little 

Paint Creek Coldwater Conservation Plan, and groups used C-SAW assistance to compensate the Stream 

Team for providing trainings and support. 

I expect more, but smart growth in 2012. I sincerely hope you are part of that. 

Warm regards, 

Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team 2011 Annual Report Page 2

Water Monitoring Program 

In 2011, Stream Team volunteers and staff collected 744 water samples from Abandoned Mine 

Discharges (AMD), AMD treatment systems, and rivers impacted by AMD in cooperation with the PA 

Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation. These samples came 

from over 155 sites throughout the Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin where samples were collected yearly, semiannually, 

quarterly, or monthly, based on need. The DEP’s Bureau of Laboratories analyzes water samples 

collected at no cost to the Stream Team, thereby contributing over $61,000 of in-kind services to the Stream 

Team and its partners. Resulting data are used by watershed associations, conservation districts, and state and 

federal agencies to evaluate the effectiveness of existing treatment systems and to design new ones. 

New monitoring requests were made of the Stream Team. For example, the Pennsylvania Association 

of Conservation Districts asked the Stream Team to begin monitoring the three Beeghley discharges in the 

Wells Creek watershed. The Stream Team had monitored these sites in 2005-2007, which helped the Listie 

Fire Hall secure a PA DEP Growing Greener grant for design and construction of a treatment system; 

however, officials were concerned that a new strip mine might have affected the discharges’ water chemistry. 

Upon approval by the DEP, the Stream Team began monitoring these sites again in June. Data did reveal a 

change in chemistry, which officials are analyzing. Additionally, at the request of the Blacklick Creek 

Watershed Association, the Stream Team added the Lucerne 3A AMD treatment system to its routine 

sampling schedule and, at the request of the Somerset Conservation District, added the Boswell and Jenner 

treatment systems, bringing the number of systems monitored by the Stream Team to 29. 

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AMD Treatment Systems Monitored by Stream Team 

Big Run #2, Blackleggs Creek Watershed 



Booker, Kiskiminetas Watershed 

Boswell, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Coal Pit A, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Coal Pit B, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Jenner, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Kolb, Blackleggs Creek Watershed 

Laurel Run #1, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Lucerne 3A, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Oven Run Site A, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Oven Run Site B, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Oven Run Site D, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Oven Run Site E, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Oven Run Site F, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Rock Tunnel, Stonycreek River Watershed 

Penn Hills 2A, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Penn Hills 2B, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Richard 1, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Richard 2A, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Richard 2B, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

SR286, Aultman Run Watershed 

Yellow Creek 1-A, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Yellow Creek 1-B, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Yellow Creek 2-A, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Yellow Creek 2-B, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Yellow Creek 2-C, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Vintondale, Blacklick Creek Watershed 

Left to right: Jenner AMD treatment system; Sampling bottles - photo by Charlie Moyer; 

Oven Run site B AMD treatment system; and Kolb AMD treatment system. 


Continuous Water Quality Monitoring in Western PA 

The Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team expanded the Water 

Quality Monitoring Joint Venture that started in Somerset County into 

other areas of the Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin and beyond. This 

project uses in-stream data loggers to acquire a stream’s water level, 

temperature and conductivity every 15 minutes, 24 / 7. These data 

allow users to document a stream’s normal fluctuations as well as 

pollution incidences. The level of conductivity helps determine the 

kind of pollution entering the stream, while water sampling and 

investigation can determine the source. Even though development of 

the Marcellus and Utica Shale gas industry drove the creation of this 

project, it is not meant to be a regulatory program. The Conemaugh 

Valley Conservancy does not have regulatory authority, but it can help 

focus the state’s limited resources on problem areas and guide future 

restoration projects, even ones not tied to the gas industry. 

The Stream Team worked especially close with the Armstrong 

Conservation District to place seven data loggers in Armstrong, 

Butler, Clarion, and Jefferson Counties. Staff trained the District’s 

AmeriCorps member, Will Thomas, to download the data and retrieve 

field readings. We are grateful for his assistance. It also coordinated 

efforts with the Jacobs Creek, Loyalhanna, and Mountain Watershed 

Associations and the Somerset Conservation District to place dozens 

more throughout the Laurel Highlands. Several partner organizations 

like the Cambria County Conservation District and Evergreen 

Conservancy have implemented a logger program in Cambria and 

Indiana counties respectively. The Stream Team is mapping permitted 

and drilled Marcellus Shale wells and will be placing additional 

loggers at key locations throughout the region. Furthermore, the 

Stream Team is offering trainings to conservation districts and 

watershed associations interested in implementing their own logger 

program. 

Stream Team staff is collecting and identifying 

macroinvertebrates at its logger locations. They will be working with 

a local laboratory to collect water samples twice a year for analysis of 

gas-related parameters during high and low flows. 

The U.S. Geologic Survey installed a staff plate at two of the 

Stream Team’s logger locations that will aide in the collection of flow 

data. The Stream Team will be working with Saint Francis University 

to acquire flow data at these sites to correlate the water level recorded 

by the logger to actual stream flow. 

This project is made possible through generous support from the 

Colcom Foundation and the Pittsburgh Foundation. 

Will Thomas, AmeriCorps with the 

Armstrong Conservation District, 

installs a data logger. 

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal 

and give strength to body and soul alike. ~ John Muir 


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C-SAW 

The Conemaugh Valley Conservancy / Kiski- 

Conemaugh Stream Team is a Technical Service 

Provider with the Consortium for Scientific 

Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW). C-SAW is a 

coalition of groups that provides free mentoring, 

technical, and capacity-building assistance to 

watershed groups courtesy a DEP Growing Greener 

grant. Eligible groups need to complete a one page 

application for assistance and submit it to the Stream 

Team. The Stream Team will then forward it for 

approval to the DEP and the Poconos Northeast 

Resource, Conservation and Development Council, 

which administers the grant. In 2011, the Stream 

Team provided Trout Run Watershed Association a 

macroinvertebrate collection and identification 

training, as well as quality control on the specimens 

collected. Staff also met with the Potter County 

Conservation District regarding implementation of 

a data logger monitoring program and helped the 

District install their first logger. 

Little Paint Creek 

Coldwater Conservation Plan 

The Paint Creek Regional Watershed 

Association (PCRWA) contracted the Stream Team 

to create a coldwater conservation plan for Little 

Paint Creek, the largest stream in the Paint Creek 

watershed that is not fully degraded by Abandoned 

Mine Drainage. Working with the PCRWA, PA 

Fish and Boat Commission, Somerset Conservation 

District, Saint Francis University, and the Western 

Pennsylvania Conservancy, the Stream Team 

compiled historical data, acquired new data, and 

published a plan that sets goals for the watershed 

and details recommendations for achieving these 

goals. 

Early products from this project include the PA 

Fish and Boat Commission upgrading UNT45242, 

locally known as Fox’s Run, to a Wild Trout Water 

because it has a previously undocumented 

population of wild brook trout, and PCRWA’s 

adoption of a two-mile stretch of State Route 160 

that parallels Little Paint Creek between Berwick 

Road and Elton. The complete plan is available on 

the Conemaugh Valley Conservancy’s website. 

Technical Assistance 

Picking Up Paint Creek 

The Stream Team helped the Paint Creek 

Regional Watershed Association (PCRWA) 

organize its second road and stream side cleanup on 

April 9, 2011 as part of the Great American Cleanup 

of PA. Twenty-four volunteers from Stream Team, 

PCRWA, Saint Francis University, Mountain Laurel 

TU, and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown’s 

Geography Club spent the morning picking up 2 

couches, 39 tires and 78 bags of trash from Berwick 

Road and Little Paint Creek! The most interesting 

find was an old safe that apparently was jimmied 

opened and contained personal documents from the 

1930s - 1970s. The safe and its contents were 

turned over to the Richland Township Police. 

On April 30 th , Stream Team staff supervised a 

crew of volunteers who picked up litter and cut 

down knotweed from along the Conemaugh River at 

the Bairdstown Bridge in Blairsville. 

A truck load of garbage is removed 

from along Berwick Road during the 

Picking Up Paint Creek litter cleanup. 

Weaver Run Restoration 

The Stream Team is helping the Paint Creek 

Regional Watershed Association with their Growing 

Greener grant project that will treat significant 

Abandoned Mine Discharges along Weaver Run, 

a headwater stream, and restore a fishery. 

Construction of the first two systems are scheduled 

for 2012. 


Somerset Conservation District 

In response to the Quemahoning Reservoir’s 

coldwater conservation release that started in July 

2010, the Somerset Conservation District, Stream 

Team, and California University of PA conducted a 

fish survey at three locations along Quemahoning 

Creek in September. The thermodynamics of the 

stream are changing. Several darter species, young 

smallmouth bass, and even a northern pike, a 

predator species, were captured during the survey. 

The state of this waterway will be monitored with 

the aim of making it a tailwater fishery. 

Saint Francis University 

The Stream Team is collaborating with Saint 

Francis University as they develop their Center for 

Watershed Research and Service (CWRS). Some 

goals of CWRS are to engage students in solving 

“real-world” problems encountered by watershed 

associations and to provide free technical assistance 

to these groups. In 2011, for example, students in 

Dr. William Strosnider’s Environmental Engineering 

Measurements classes deployed three sondes at the 

confluence of Rocky Run and Little Paint Creek, 

analyzed resulting data as a class project, and 

confirmed the Stream Team’s hypothesis that 

elevated conductivity levels in Little Paint Creek 

were coming from Rocky Run. Many more projects, 

including internships, are planned for 2012. 


Welcome 

Tubmill Limestone Doser 

In light of land transfer agreement difficulties, 

a looming deadline, construction of a new bridge 

adjacent the project site, long-term maintenance 

concerns, and consideration of water chemistry, 

biology, and habitat, the Stream Team encouraged the 

Conemaugh Valley Conservancy to cancel 

construction of a limestone doser for the Tubmill 

Abandoned Mine Discharge. It is a project that could 

be revisited in the future. Thank you to Jerry and 

Virginia Dohey and Florence Mining Company for 

their cooperation with this project. 

Saint Francis University students deploy a sonde, which is 

a monitoring device, in the Little Paint Creek watershed. 

Photo by Dr. William Strosnider 

In 2011, Eric Null joined the Conemaugh Valley 

Conservancy / Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team as its 

Aquatic Biologist. Eric formerly worked for the Somerset 

Conservation District and developed the data logger 

program, but couldn’t pass up a job with the state of 

Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources. Because 

he wanted to stay involved with the logger program and 

the Stream Team needed assistance with its program, Eric 

came aboard on a part-time basis to provide technical 

assistance, classify macroinvertebrates, interpret data, 

offer trainings and more. 

At left, Eric supervises the sorting and classification of 

macroinvertebrates during a C-SAW training. 


In 2011, the Stream Team offered limited 

environmental education programs, largely due to 

restricted staff time and funds to support these 

programs. Still, the Stream Team was able to directly 

educate 2,753 students of all ages about its programs, 

projects, or conservation topics. Staff served on the 

planning committees of the 13th Annual 

Pennsylvania Abandoned Mine Reclamation 

Conference, the Allegheny Mountain Green Fest, and 

SCRIP’s 20th Anniversary. Staff regularly 

participated in meetings of the Mountain Laurel 

chapter of Trout Unlimited; Paint Creek Regional 

Watershed Association; Southern Alleghenies 

Resource, Conservation and Development Council; 

Stonycreek Conemaugh River Improvement Project; 

and Western PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine 

Reclamation. To the right is a list of outreach and 

education events in which the Stream Team 

participated. 

Trout in the Classroom 

In cooperation with the Mountain Laurel 

chapter of Trout Unlimited, the Stream Team 

assisted with nine Trout in the Classroom projects in 

Cambria and Somerset County schools. 

Trout in the Classroom allows students to raise 

brook trout fingerlings from eggs in a classroom 

aquarium. Students are responsible for the daily 

care and maintenance of the trout and gain 

responsibility and confidence as they learn about 

coldwater ecosystems, the anatomy of trout, water 

pollution, and more. Before the end of the school 

year, surviving trout are released into a stateapproved 

body of water. 

A grant from GenOn Energy Services and 

local donations supported Trout in the Classroom at 

these schools: 

Berlin-Brothersvalley High School 

Cambria Heights Middle School 

Conemaugh Township Intermediate School 

Forest Hills High School 

North Star East Elementary School 

Penn Cambria Middle School x 2 

Saint Benedict School 

Shade-Central City High School 

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Environmental Education 

Saint Francis University Little Paint Creek 

Watershed Tour ~ February 16 

Wildlife Day ~ March 12 

Greater Johnstown Water Authority ~ March 16 

Shade Creek Watershed Association open house 

~ March 22 

Cambria County Conservation District Water 

Resources Committee meeting ~ April 20 

Conemaugh Valley Conservancy Annual Picnic ~ 

May 11 

Green Energy Fair ~ May 12 

Allegheny Mountain Green Fest ~ May 14 

Scottsdale Elementary School’s Camp Out ~ 

May 19 

Lion Mining Treatment System Dedication ~ 

June 16 

Johnstown Area Heritage Association Outdoor 

Discovery Day ~ July 14 

Meyersdale Summer Camp ~ July 18 

PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference ~ 

August 4-6 

AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival ~ August 5 

SCRIP 20th Anniversary Picnic ~ August 7 

Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Stream Monitoring 

Symposium ~ August 11-13 

Ohio River Watershed Celebration ~ September 

22 

Somerset / Cambria County Watershed Summit 

and Green Drinks ~ October 25 

American Association of University Women Girls 

Tech Over ~ November 5 

A Shade-Central 

City High School 

student releases a 

trout he helped raise 

into Beaverdam Run. 


Financials 

The Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team operated on a lean budget of $72,755; however, including project 

costs, grants and donations of cash, goods and services, including those from our volunteers and partners, the 

Stream Team’s total budget was $204,354. Our largest revenue sources were grants from private foundations 

and grants or in-kind services from the state. These funds supported our water monitoring programs and 

explain the significant differences in expenses from 2010 to 2011. In 2011, the Stream Team spent 15% more 

of its time and resources on special projects and 23% more on its water monitoring programs, while it cut 

environmental education programming by 30%, largely by dropping Outdoor Heritage / Outdoor Adventures. 

Grants from the Richard King Mellon Foundation and Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds supported 

the Stream Team’s core functions, particularly those surrounding its Abandoned Mine Drainage Water 

Monitoring Program. A grant from the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Growing Greener 

program also supported the Stream Team’s water sampling in the Blacklick Creek, Little Conemaugh River, 

and Stonycreek River watersheds. 

Grants from the Colcom Foundation and the Pittsburgh Foundation are supporting the data logger water 

quality monitoring project, while a grant from GenOn Energy Services secured in April 2011 is primarily 

supporting the Stream Team’s work with Trout in the Classroom projects. 

Contributions from many individuals, organizations, and businesses supported the Stream Team and its 

mission. The Stream Team and the Conemaugh Valley Conservancy are very grateful to all who kindly and 

generously supported the Stream Team’s projects. Thank you. 

1% 

3% 

17% 

1% 

2% 

3% 

7% 

8% 

20% 

2011 Revenue Sources 

37% 

41% 

Water Monitoring 

Program 

Special Projects 

2011 Expenditures 

59% 

State 

Private 

Environmental 

Education Program 

Individuals 

State 

Private 

Individuals 

Donations 

Contractual 

Federal 


Administration 

Donations 

Contractual 

Fundraising 

Federal 

Water Monitoring Program 

Special Projects 

Environmental Education 

Program 


Administration 

Fundraising 

Operations 

The Stream Team again promoted its 

Adopt-a-Monitoring Point fundraising 

campaign, where, for $100 a site, an 

individual, organization, or business can 

sponsor the sampling of Stream Team 

monitoring points for one year. In 2011, 

49 sites were adopted. Please consider 

joining the following in their support. 

Jim Brett 

Mike and Kathy Burk 

Concurrent Technologies Corp. 

East Taylor Township 

Laura Hawkins 

Jenner Rod & Gun Club 

Jeff and Mary Lavine 

Kurt Limbach 

Jack and Denise Maher 

Dick and Connie Mayer 

Howard and Adelle Picking 

Robindale Energy Services 

Jerry and Sandy Seitz 


Somerset Trust Company 

Tuscano-Maher Roofing, Inc. 

Wells Creek Watershed Association 

W.N. Tuscano Agency 


Armstrong Conservation District 

Jim Brett 

Mike and Kathy Burk 

Central City Sportsmen’s Club 

Colcom Foundation 

Concurrent Technologies Corp. 

Consortium for Scientific 

Assistance to Watersheds 

East Taylor Township 

Eastern PA Coalition for 

Abandoned Mine Reclamation 

Evergreen Conservancy 

Foundation for PA Watersheds 

GenOn Energy Services 

GoodSearch 

Rose Gustkey 

Laura Hawkins 

Jenner Rod and Gun Club 

Kids Sport 

Jeff and Mary Lavine 

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Kurt Limbach 

Donors 

John Linkes — in memory of Jim 

Sapinsky 

Jack and Denise Maher 

Karlice Makuchan 

Dick and Connie Mayer 

Meyersdale Elementary School 

Mountain Laurel Trout Unlimited 

Natural Biodiversity 

PA Department of Environmental 

Protection 

PA Fish and Boat Commission 

Paint Creek Regional Watershed 

Association 

Howard and Adelle Picking 

Pittsburgh Foundation 

REI—Bedford Distribution Center 

Rembrandt Club 

Richard King Mellon Foundation 

Robindale Energy Services 

Left: A Sonman Mine 

Discharge at the Portage 

wetlands. 

Right: Dennis Beck, a 

Stream Team volunteer, 

monitors another Sonman 

Mine Discharge. 

Honors and Awards 

Sahlaney and Dudeck Law Office 

Saint Francis University 

Jerry and Sandy Seitz 

Shade Creek Watershed 

Association 

Slovenian Savings and Loan 


Somerset Trust Company 

Southmoreland Elementary 

School 

Tuscano-Maher Roofing, Inc. 

United States Geologic Survey 

Wells Creek Watershed 

Association 

Western PA Conservancy 

WN Tuscano Agency 

The Stream Team regrets any 

errors or omissions. Please 

notify us immediately so that 

we may address your interests. 

In 2011, the Stream Team won first place in the Community Education and Outreach category at the 

Ohio River Watershed Celebration, which came with a $500 cash award! Additionally, Melissa Reckner, the 

Stream Team’s Director, was nominated for the Women and Girls Foundation’s Women Greening Pittsburgh 

award. 


Jane Armbrust 

Joel Bandstra 

Chris Barkley 

Megan Baskerville 

David Beale 

Dennis Beck 

Mathew Beiswenger 

Adam Blough 

Don Buchanan 

Randy Buchanan 

Rick Buchanan 

Mike Burk 

Jeff Chaplin 

Eric Chapman 

Tom Clark 

Joe Cocco 

Bill Conlin 

Adam Cotchen 

Pat Cotchen 

David Daugherty 

Mike Depew 

Holly Eckenrode 

James Eckenrode, Jr. 

Timmy Eckman 

Nathan Felix 

JoAnne Ferraro 

John Ferraro 

Volunteers and Partners 

Brad Foust 

Greg Gdula 

Dane Marie Greaves 

Art Grguric 

John Gustkey, Jr. 

Ashley Gwinn 

Deanna Haddle 

Laura Hawkins 

Julia Herbst 

Brian Hreha 

Thom Hunt 

Zane Hunter 

Larry Hutchinson 

Megan Hutchinson 

Stephanie Jellison 

Tom Kakabar 

Carley Kastriba 

Beth Kern 

Mike Kern 

Brandon Kish 

Eric Kish 

Noah Kolar 

Mary Lavine 

Alex Lezark 

Nancy Lezark 

Len Lichvar 

Kurt Limbach 

Randy Buchanan teaches a Saint Benedict School student 

how to fly cast during Outdoor Discovery Workshops 

held after students released their trout. 

Matt Limbach 

John Linkes 

Mick Maddy 

Chris Mahla 

Karlice Makuchan 

Nate Marsh 

Becky McDaniel 

Sara Mekis 

Lucas Mignogna 

Tom Miller 

Thomas Miller, Jr. 

Mary Mock 

Ron Morris 

Charlie Moyer 

Tom Murray 

Ron Musser 

Ashley Neptune 

Eric Null 

Katie Obertholer 

Kelsea Palmer 

Josh Penatzer 

John Pile 

Kathy Randall 

Kenna Raymond 

Matt Reckner 

Melissa Reckner 

Dennis Remy 

Austin Russell 

Benjamin Sakmar 

Max Sapinsky 

Marie Schoenenberger 

Greg Shustrick 

Orion Sorcsek 

Tara Spinos 

Terry Spinos 

William Strosnider 

Will Thomas 

Alysha Trexler 

Carl Trout 

Matt Truesdale 

Kate Uncapher 

Rich Wargo 

Jim Wentz 

Rob Wiederstein 

Darlene Wilusz 

Ernie Wilusz 

Neil Woffinden 

Lindsey Wolfe 

Nichole Wozniak 

Michael Yorko 

Michael Zimmerman 

Volunteer of the Year 

The Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team is proud 

to name Dr. Mary Lavine its 2011 Volunteer of 

the Year! Mary is Associate Professor Emerita of 

Geography at the University of Pittsburgh at 

Johnstown and is a skilled cartographer. She 

kindly and generously donated at least 50 hours of 

work making maps that were included in the Little 

Paint Creek Coldwater Conservation Plan. The 

maps added a wealth of information to the plan. 

Thank you Mary. 

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait 

a single moment before starting to improve 

the world. ~Anne Frank 


1800 Somerset Avenue 

Windber, PA 15963 

814.444.2669 

mreckner@kcstreamteam.org 

www.conemaughvalleyconservancy.org/conservation/kcst.html 

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