Volunteers and visitors are welcome Saturday afternoon for a series of environmental activities at Westmoreland Land Trust\u2019s Saint Xavier Nature Reserve in Unity.<\/p>\n
Tree planting and trash clearing along a section of Route 30 are scheduled along with a series of awareness programs set from noon to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
The free activities tied to Earth Day at 106 Saint Xavier Road will include planting trees at 1 p.m. with the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the lower preserve. A 1-mile guided nature walk also is planned. Cleaning up litter along the eastbound side of Route 30 along the nature preserve property is planned for 2 p.m.<\/p>\n
Among other activities planned at the 350-acre preserve are a nature bingo scavenger hunt, fishing instruction, a soil exploration table for children, vegetable seed planting, rock painting, a story walk in the Grove and live biodegradability and sustainability demonstrations. A food truck will be on-site.<\/p>\n
The Land Trust is holding the free event in partnership with Seton Hill University students and community partners.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe event is an opportunity to bring people together around a shared appreciation for local land and the importance of protecting it,\u201d said Leanna Bird, Land Trust executive director.<\/p>\n
Nicole McAllister Conrad, assistant professor of biology at Seton Hill, said the goal is to bring the community together to celebrate the nature around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers and visitors are welcome Saturday afternoon for a series of environmental activities at Westmoreland Land Trust\u2019s Saint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-593591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}