The Ned Smith Center will host an evening program on “PA's Conservation Heritage-The People, the Policies, and the Places” presented by Beth Hager, Chief ofDevelopment at the State Museum and Wayne Kober, former Director of PennDOT Office of Environmental Quality, at 7:00 p.m. on February 10 in Millersburg, Dauphin County.

The program will include presentations on the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals environmental heritage initiatives; PA Senate Resolution 324 on conservation history that passed on November 15, 2004; J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg native and founder of the National Park Service; and thoughts on the role of the Ned Smith Center in conservation history education.

The Horace McFarland presentation will include a multi-media slide show of McFarland's historical photographs of Harrisburg and other cities, and an actual speech given by him around the country as part of his city beautification advocacy in the early 20th century.

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