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HARRISBURG State Parks Director John Hallas announced the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is seeking proposals to operate a downhill ski and four-season recreation center at Denton Hill State Park in Potter County.
Denton Hill includes a downhill ski area that has been closed since the winter of 2014. A new master plan for the park includes infrastruture improvements to the ski area and positions a concessionaire to grow recreational opportunities in all four seasons.
DCNR is committing $10 million in capital improvements to support the implementation of a master plan for the park.
“The department is seeking a concessionaire to lease approximately 700 acres and work with DCNR to create a year-round park operation with a winter mountain recreation focus,” Hallas said. “DCNR believes with infrastructure improvements and the right partner Denton Hill will become another attraction that brings visitors to the Pennsylvania Wilds region in all f
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Walter Ottis Wood, Jr., 74, of Baker City Oregon lost his long battle against cancer, on April 28, 2021, at St. Luke s Medical Center in Boise, ID. Walt was born January 9, 1947, in Alton, Illinois, the only child of Walter and Stella Wood of Shipman, Illinois. He attended local grade school and Southwestern High School making many life long friends. He delighted in working on local farms, mowing and cleaning in the town cemetery (his father was the town s mayor), hunting raccoons at night and squirrels during the days in the woods and growing up in a caring, Christian community of family and friends.
A land swap between Ohiopyle Borough and the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is now complete, said Rep. Matthew Dowling, R-Uniontown, who wrote the legislation authorizing the transfer.
Under Act 60 of 2020, the state was authorized to convey land it owned in the borough in exchange for Ohiopyle conveying some of its own land. The swap would allow additional water access for DCNR and the state park. It would provide developable property for Ohiopyle Borough, which could be a future revenue stream. The property conveyance would also allow the borough additional room to update an adjacent sewage treatment plant, should that become necessary.
Illegal dumping happens quickly, usually in less than a minute.
A vehicle stops, a door opens, a bag of household trash is dropped beside a road, a pair of tires is abandoned on a vacant lot, an old toilet is left in the woods.
It s a costly problem all across Pennsylvania. Every county has illegal dumping of some sort, said Rob Dubas, program coordinator for Illegal Dump Free PA, a program of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful.
In 2020, KPB received reports of 210 illegal dumps in Pennsylvania, an increase of 213% over the 67 reported in 2019, according to A Summary of Illegal Dump Reporting to Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. That 2020 report identified illegal dumpsites in 50 of the state s 67 counties, up from 26 counties in 2019. Nineteen of the sites were located on state park, forest or game lands.