We’re on Twitter (and Facebook!)

Want quick updates from the Parks Conservancy, like when you can join us for a volunteer day or where we’re working in the parks? Check us out on Twitter, where we’ve engaged the one and only Phil Gruszka, our Director of Park Management and Maintenance, to tell us what’s happening in the parks on a [...]

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More playground chat (and a little Schenley history)

Today was the Playground of the Future team’s concluding lecture at the Schenley Park Cafe and Visitor Center, and we had a great crowd of folks interested in learning about the history of playgrounds and current trends in play.  The group also unveiled two of the products of their work: a web archive of their research and [...]

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Rotten luck

If you find yourself at the Schenley Park Cafe and Visitor Center in the next week or so, you may notice a couple of large oak trees coming down on either side of the building.  Unfortunately, these two trees have succumbed to a root-rotting fungus in the Ganoderma genus.  This fungus affects the ability of a [...]

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