Small business owners, outdoor groups, and others interested in learning more about the Pennsylvania Wilds initiative or tourism development in the region now have a new resource on the internet at www.pawildsresources.org.
According to Ta Brant, small business ombudsman for the Pennsylvania Wilds, the site includes: free online classifieds for tourism-related businesses and groups; a database of available loans, grants and technical assistance programs for tourism businesses; information on the Wilds design guide, Artisan Trail, logo use and more; maps; examples of ads that have run to promote the PA Wilds; success stories; frequently asked questions and other contributions from around the region.
Pennsylvania Wilds is a state-supported tourist marketing campaign serving Potter, Cameron, McKean, Tioga, Elk, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Forest, Jefferson, Lycoming and Warren counties.
Brant is available at 814-757-9190 or tbrant@pawilds.com
16 comments:
The logo needs a picture of a wind turbine on it. Then it can read formally Pennsylvania wilds. Then we won't have to waste money on tourism. There is no sence preserving the beauty that we now have. We need to destroy the green to go green.
If you OWN it,preserve it for all to use.If you don't,get used to the idea that those who do, will do what they want with what they OWN.
Well said...
Don't forget to include all the clear cuts and logging road in the logo
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a great site I visited for about 30 seconds then the boredom set in.
Logging is a renewable industry. That is some of the major jobs in this area. It is a temporary scare on the hills. Wind turbines can be seen for a dozen miles and the tops of the hills will be gone forever. Use some common sense when you try to make a point.
"Logging is a renewable industry."
Maybe you should drive around the county and visit all of the clearcut sites that were done 20 years ago that are now just a big snarl of briars and scrub trees....it takes hundreds of years for the forest to recover from being clear cut.
Every hill in Potter County was clear cut in the early 19th century. The hills came back on their own in less then 50 years. Logging is a valuble renewable industry.
"Logging is a valuble renewable industry"...and the wild life thrives from it as well! We have fox, coyote, bear, buck, doe, grouse, rabbits, bob cats, you name it on our clear cut! And to look at it now you can see the trees are all most as tall as the property owner that boarders our land. This clear cut was done not more than 20 years ago!
"it takes hundreds of years for the forest to recover from being clear cut.:...hope you are not trying to convince anyone but yourself of this crap...unbelievable!
Logging roads provide ATV access as well as nature hikes. Some people just look for something to bitch about and that is sooooo true here!
Maybe we could convince a factory that spews toxic waste into our air to move into these beautiful hills for your enjoyment! Idiots!
Let's keep the Pa. Wilds wild. Tell your local and state officials "No to Industrial Wind Turbines" in Potter County.
After the clear cuts are finished the water that was once being filtered down through the roots of the trees now runs off like a roof top.Hence making us have serious drought and water shortage conditions in our watershed if all people do not see and witness this happening then you are blind.The logging industry state and private should have to put the terrain back the way they found it as soon as they are finished with the job. this will insure that the water does the natural thing when it comes down from the sky not just run off .
I love the Wilds. Let's keep them wild. No turbines...and use the best practices as far as harvesting the forest.
"The logging industry state and private should have to put the terrain back the way they found it as soon as they are finished with the job."...
I take it you are unaware of SFI? Sustainable Forestry Initiative...guess not or you would know what is being done in the logging industry! AND this is at the full expense of the logging company not the land owner or the mills!
It's about time(SFI) but I think it is a little to late cause all the wild trout are already dead with no water.Maybe the PA wilds will install jack dams and allow the beaver to naturally help with the Wild Brook Trout.When they find that there is money to be made in this maybe,but I doubt it.Sorry for making the Logger mad but I think you all know where I stand.
To blogger 11:39-
Don't forget in the 19th century there was not "Super-Highways" going up the mountain to get the logs out of the woods.
Enough has been said until it stops.It already has in other states."Sustainable Forestry Initiative"What a joke I'll believe it when I see it, until then you will just leave the hills a mess the way you have for the last 40 years.
"Sustainable Forestry Initiative"What a joke I'll believe it when I see it"...
Have your eyes been closed?
S.F.I. has been in effect for over 10 years now, this is nothing new.
Have you viewed logging jobs done by quailified and certified logging companies or "weekend warriors"? Because you see there IS a differance!
No mill is to be buying logs or pole wood from logging crews that are not quailfied & certified in S.F.I., this is how this all came about. But guess what, they do!
Once again the companies that play by the rules do not all ways come out on top!
S.F.I. charges per employee on logger safety, forest management, soil & errosion plans, CPR and First Aide to the logging company. This can be very costly but very benificial when you must have these itmes for "some" companies contracts to harvest goods.
The problem with the S.F.I. is that when the ecomony went in the toilet not all of them continued to comply and guess what all the crews kept on working while some of us struggled to pay fuel bills and certification and qualification fees!
And the mills did not help matters any because they needed to get their lumber and or product orders filled so they just keep buying from the suppliers that do not comply!
You should not BLOW until you KNOW!
And further more do YOU realize that any injury caused by a chain saw is viewed in the eyes of the Commonwealth of PA as a "logging" accident! This raises the state base rate for workers compensation insurance to logging companies on their employees. No one ever looks into "if" the person that was injured is qualified & certified to operator that chain saw. Or if it is just a homeowner cutting fire wood for self use!
So just do not expect me to see this matter from your point of view! Because I have lived it for over 30 years!
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