Allegheny Pools Mussel Project
A Western Pennsylvania Conservancy project currently underway to survey the freshwater mussels population in the navigational pools in the lower Allegheny River. Links to county natural heritage inventories. The Allegheny River was historically the richest stream in PA for freshwater mussels, with over 50 species known to inhabit the river. 30 species currently survive.
Allegheny Project
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) is a statewide, non-profit, education and conservation organization devoted to promoting the protection of watersheds, the sustainable uses of land, and the implementation of environmental innovations. Since it’s founding in 1970, the Council has worked toward sensible answers to the Commonwealth's difficult environmental issues.
Allegheny Rafting Days
Penn State University Digital Bookshelf edition of Rafting Days in Pennsylvania (1922) including a rafting glossary.
Allegheny River
Provides basic facts about the river and links to relevant web sites.
The Allegheny River Basin
Known as the Headwaters District, the Pittsburgh District is comprised of the Ohio River drainage basin above New Martinsville, WV. The District covers an area of approximately 67,000 square kilometers (26,000 square miles), including portions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, New York and Maryland. Major river systems within the District include the upper Ohio, the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the Beaver. The District manages 16 flood control and multipurpose reservoirs with a combined capacity of over 3.8 billion cubic meters (3 million acre feet), and 23 navigation locks and dams on 530 kilometers (330 miles) of navigable waterways. Provides provide current accurate and timely information on conditions at Corps of Engineers reservoirs, as well as levels along rivers and streams within the Pittsburgh District, consistent with the mission of the Water Management Section of the Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
American Rivers
American Rivers is a national non-profit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy natural rivers and the variety of life they sustain for people, fish, and wildlife.
Bucktail Regiment in Bates, "History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65,"
"... it, and in the meantime the army might be sacrificed in detail. They expressed the hope that the raftsmen of the Bucktail Regiment might construct it in two days. The space to be bridged was five hundred ..."
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Rivers and Watersheds
Links to web resources dealing with Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania rivers, riverfront development, river pollution, river and watershed preservation organizations as well as links to national resources.
Includes links to the
Conewango Watershed
the
Upper Allegheny Watershed
and the
Middle Allegheny Watershed
Descent of the Raftsman's Guard
The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine Volume 53 January 1970 Number 1 Descent of the Raftsman's Guard - A Roll Call, Mark Reinsburg
These are biographical sketches of ninety-two men belonging ...
French Creek Project
A Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Western PA Conservancy, and Allegheny College cooperative watershed project.
Geology of Warren County, PA
Penn State University web page: This is an electronic version of: A geological hand atlas of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania: embodying the results of the field work of the survey, from 1874 to 1884. By J. P. Lesley. (Report of progress (Geological Survey of Pennsylvania), v. X) Harrisburg, PA: Board of commissioners for the second geological survey, 1885. There is also a short explanation of the geological structure of Pennsylvania.
Hazards on the Water
Headwaters of Rivers in the United States
Links to the headwaters of America’s major rivers.
History of Warren County, Pennsylvania
J. S. Schenck’s History of Warren County With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, 1887.
Kane Letter to Curtin
... Niles Co E (Tioga Rifles) Tioga Co. Capt. Edward A. Irvin Co K (The Raftsmen Rangers Clearfield Co. and Capt. William L. Blanchard Co I McKean Rifles McKean—who will present ...
Life in Western Pennsylvania
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania collection of annotated digitized photographs providing historical information and insight into diverse aspects of the history and environment of Western Pennsylvania. Includes a timeline.
Mary Jane Mead Reminiscences
Jane Mean Bliley’s diary of life along the Brokenstraw in Warren County in the early 1800’s.
Miller's Letters Home From the Bucktails
... of Pvt. Cordello Collins," WPHM, 18 (July, 1965): 3, pp. 235-248, and "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard: A Roll Call, WPHM, 53 (1970): 1, p. 10. [16] From the Warren Mail, July 25, 1863. [17] This letter ...
The Old Bucktails
... enough young men to fill 7 companies (approximately 700 men). Many of these men were lumberjacks, raftsmen, and farmers accustomed to living in the rugged mountainous areas of the "Wildcat" district ...
Pennsylvania State University:
River Rafting Oral History Collection
The Lumber Rafting Oral History Collection documents the timber industry in North Central Pennsylvania, primarily between 1885-1940. The collection consists of sixty interviews, an article from the Harrisburg Patriot, a list of boat scaffolds in Clarion, and a film entitled The Last Raft, documenting the historical recreation of the last lumber raft, 1939. Focuses on the work patterns of the lumber industry, including detailed descriptions of building and maneuvering log rafts on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River to the end of the run in Williamsport or Lock Haven. The collection has descriptions of log transportation using logging roads, horses, sleds and trains (mostly steam engines). Wages, typical dress, work patterns, and social history are included throughout the interviews. There is some information on clearing forests, types of lumber used, and cutting logs in the lumber mills. The collection came with a short film documenting the construction of the last raft to float down the Susquehanna River, 1939.
Three Rivers 3 Rivers 2nd Nature - From Rivers to Lakes Engineering Pittsburgh's Three Rivers
Timeline of the Allegheny Watershed
The Timeline explores historical events regarding the development of the Allegheny Watershed and the development of our society in western Pennsylvania.
Rafting lumber down the Wisconsin River in 1849
Describes some early rafting operations on the Wisconsin River.
Reinsberg A Bucktail Voice
... in the elite company recruited by Captain (eventually Brigadier General) Roy Stone known as the "Raftsmen's Guard” The markmanship of a hunter, the hardiness of a lumberman, were the standards ...
Virtual Historic Smethport & McKean County Project
This site is owned and operated through Smethport Area School District and is a project of Mr. Ross Porter's PLANET EARTH NOW classes. It is being created by both Smethport students both past and present as well as interested community members both past and present. But this site is in reality owned by all the people & their ancestors who have helped to create this unique & beautiful location on the planet.
Warren County Chamber of Commerce
Find information on the Warren County Chamber of Commerce as well as a community calendar, and maps of the county.
Warren County Historical Society.
The history of Warren County, as well as genealogy and census information for Warren County, Pennsylvania.
Northern Alleghenies
Find tourist information, shopping and attractions for Warren County and Kinzua Dam area.
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Natural Heritage
Mission is to protect, conserve and restores land and water for the diversity of the region's plants, animals and their ecosystems.
Wild & Scenic Rivers (National Park Service)
An extensive list of web links.