The Peter A. Yeager Memorial Foundation was created in 1991 to provide financial support to college students, school faculty, and educational organizations dedicated to the principles of environmental conservation.

The Foundation was created in the memory of Pete Yeager, a lifelong outdoorsman and an inspirational advocate of the preservation, protection, and enhancement of the environment of Northwest Pennsylvania, and beyond.

The Foundation has provided scholarships to deserving local college students, sponsored a wide range of events such as educational activities at the McKeever Environmental Learning Center, Earth Force's Bike Around the Bay event in Erie, the annual French Creek cleanup by the French Creek Valley Conservancy, and riparian stream improvement projects on the upper French Creek.

There is an interpretive hiking trail at Stainbrook Park just below the Woodcock Dam and a handicapped-accessible fishing ramp at Presque Isle State Park that bear Pete's name.

This year the Foundation sponsored the Children's Water Festival at the Behrend Penn State campus in Erie by the Washington D.C.-based Water Resources Council. It was attended by almost 1,700 5th graders and 300 volunteers from the immediate tri-state area.

The Foundation also helped the Audubon Society publish a book on the native plants of the French Creek Watershed and last year provided a grant to the Foundation for Sustainable Forests to host an Allegheny College workshop on timber management in Northwest PA.

On September 19 the Foundation will hold its 23rd Annual Golf Outing and Scholarship Picnic in Saegertown, Crawford County.

For more information on programs, activities and how you can help, visit the Peter A Yeager Memorial Foundation website.

8/24/2015