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Check back for updated information, which will be posted when the contest winners are announced. Until then, anyone interested is encouraged to visit a Murrysville park or Westmoreland Conservancy nature reserve with your camera to capture some photos for the next contest!

2008 Grand Prize Winning    Photo by Bob Pitulski

2007 Grand Prize Winning       Photo by Ernie Hahn

• Joe Galvin lead trail work from 9:00 to 12:00. A mountain bike ride followed for those that wereinterested.
  
  
• The 4-H Conservation Club did a Fall Cleanup on Saturday, from 12:30 PM until 3:30 PM. In addition to picking up trash, we beautified the area around the parking lot, clearing brush and weeds in preparation for planting some shade trees.

• The Spring Trash Cleanup was held on April 5th from 1:30 PM until 4:30 PM at Pleasant Valley Park. (more info)
• The Fall Cleanup was held on Saturday, September 26th (National Public Lands Day)
  
• Friends of Murrysville Parks group and the Westmoreland Conservancy held a "Parks and Reserves Discovery Trail Walk" in PV Park on Saturday, July 4th that was attended by about 70 people.  (more info. about trail walks)

Other Activities and Events

• Slide show of Scott Hollern's Photos from PV Park (New)
• Pictures taken on 2/14/2007 by Joe Galvin while snow-shoeing
• Pictures taken on 2/18/2007 by Edward Straub
  while cross-country skiing at PV Park



• Four Geocaches are Hidden in Pleasant Valley Park:
  • How Green is My Pleasant Valley.
  • Perfect Pleasant Valley Park.
  • The Valley in Pleasant Valley Park
  • Pleasant View in Pleasant Valley Park

• Pleasant Valley Park is now on Flickr.  Use this link to look at pictures of the park, make comments, or view as a slide show.

• Pleasant Valley Park Activities Calendar

• The PV Park Volunteers and the 4-H Conservation Club held a Fall Colors walk on Nov 2, 2008.
• On National Public Lands Day,  Saturday, September 27th, 2008.  Volunteers cleaned up trash from along park border with Pleasant Valley Road, and from several other areas inside of park.
• The Westmoreland Conservancy, PV Park Volunteers and the 4-H Conservation Club lead walks at Pleasant Valley Park on Saturday, May 24th for Pennsylvania Hiking Week.
• The 4-H Conservation Club participated in the Fugitive Tire Program sponsored by Westmoreland CleanWays. This program pays our group for every tire that we turned in. The 4-H Conservation Club plans to use the money raised to help pay for tree signs for the Tree Identification Sign project that we are doing in Pleasant Valley Park.
  Tire Cleanup Pictures | Bonnie Belak Report
• Pleasant Valley Park Phase 2 Trail Proposal, Recommended Trail Names, And Tree Identification Signs (6MB)(Approved by Murrysville Council on 3/19/2008)
• April is Earth Month and on April 13th the 4-H Conservation Club cleaned up a small part of Pleasant Valley Park.
• The Botanical Society of Westmoreland County held a walk in the park on Sunday 9/12.
• On June 17th. the Westmoreland Bird & Nature Club held a full bioblitz of PV Park searching for salamanders, snakes, turtles, ground beetles, galls, toadstools, etc.  (Species Lists Updated)
• On June 20th. a Park Chat Walk was held in Pleasant Valley Park
• Updated Bio-diversity & Species Listing. (Click here for printer-friendly version)