Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn Wednesday recognized Boy Scout Peter Livengood with a Conservation Award for projects he organized in and around Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County.

Livengood completed 4 conservation projects this year as part of an effort to qualify for the Boy Scout’s William T. Hornaday Silver Award.  The projects included--

-- Restoring Blooming Bioswales For A Better Youghiogheny River In Ohiopyle Borough

-- Restoring The Understory At Ohiopyle State Park’s Kentuck Campground

-- Setting Up A Raptor Observation Area On Chestnut Ridge Near Uniontown

-- Saving Cranberry Glade Lake

Livengood, a 12th grade, homeschooled student from near Ohiopyle, has been a Boy Scout since 2013 in Troop #687 in Farmington and lives on a small family farm. 

He has been a certified Conservation Ambassador by the PA Wildlife Leadership Academy since 2015, attended the Penn State Conservation Leadership School in 2016 and 2017, is a member of the Allegheny Plateau Audubon Society and was appointed to the Governor's Youth Advisory Council on Hunting, Fishing and Conservation. 

He can be contacted by sending email to: PeterE.Livengood@gmail.com.

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10/8/2018