| Warren, Pennsylvania is headquarters for the Allegheny National Forest, one of the most successful nature restoration projects in our nation's history. Its half million acres now grows 100 million board feet of timber each year, according to one report. This is a far cry from the condition of the land before the Allegheny National Forest was organized more than 80 years ago. The area was completely denuded of all its trees by the 1930s and photographs of that era resemble no-man's land in France at the height of World War I, which inspired T.S. Eliot's famous poem "Wasteland." Today, this region in northwestern Pennsylvania has been named one of the top 10 spots in the country to view Fall Foliage, according to the wizards at The Weather Channel. About 2 percent of the land has been set aside as wilderness, the only such land in Pennsylvania, according to Friends of the Allegheny Wilderness, a politically moderate environmental group based in Warren. Stop in at the forest's headquarters on Liberty Street in downtown Warren where helpful experts can tell you everything you want to know about recreation. In the summer of 2008 this headquarters is expanding to a larger building in an office park on Market Street extension, which was the old Warren-Jamestown Road (Route 62). (Continued on next page.) |
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| Forest home on Liberty Street in downtown Warren is moving to larger quarters on Market Street north of the city. |