Shippensburg University and Kings Gap Environmental Education and Training Center are hosting their annual Spring conference on March 9. This year the theme is “Biodiversity Conservation: From Knowledge to Action.”

The program will include Ben Moyer, feature writer and outdoors columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, former editor of Pennsylvania Sportsman magazine, and author of Out Back: Reflections from the Appalachian Outdoors for opening address.

The post-luncheon speaker will be Randall Cooley, director of the Westsylvania Corporation, an economic development program that promotes resource-based ecotourism in economically depressed areas of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Both speakers will highlight the importance of garnering public support and understanding of biodiversity, for both its conservation values and economic impact.

For more information, contact Kings Gap at 717-486-3799.

(courtesy Watershed Alliance of York)

2/18/2005