Friday, February 20, 2009

Quiz Bowl at the Allegheny SAF Meeting

Penn State Mont Alto forestry students participated in the Quiz Bowl at the Allegheny SAF Winter meeting in State College on February 19.


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Frank Grano, Eric Monger, and Mark Mizak


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Watching the Quiz Bowl
Despite a valiant comeback Mont Alto lost to Allegheny College of Maryland, 50 to 85. Allegheny went on to win the event.

The theme of the meeting was Changing Forest Dimensions and included a wide variety of presentations about the changing nature of forestry in the Mid-Atlantic region. Follow this link to the Allegheny SAF web page.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

CCC boys from Pine Grove Furnace Camp, Pennsylvania, using tractor in road construction


CCC boys from Pine Grove Furnace Camp, Pennsylvania, using tractor in road construction
Originally uploaded by Oregon State University Archives.

Pine Grove Furnace is now a State Park. It is north of Mont Alto along Rte. 233. It is amazing how much good the CCC projects did in a time of great adversity. We owe these young men a debt of gratitude!