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Allegheny Front Migratory Observatory (Bird Banding Station) near the Red Creek Campground at Dolly Sods. The station is open from August to October in good weather. Established in 1958, it is the only cooperative banding station in West Virginia.
In 2015, Hawk Migration Studies reported on 37 sites during spring migration, and 130 sites for fall migration. Noteworthy hawk sites include: Allegheny Front Hawk Watch in Cairnbrook, Pennsylvania, which holds the record in the Eastern Flyway for the most golden eagles (386) counted in a year. This record was set in 2015 along with the one-day ...
The path made use of one of the few so-called gaps of the Allegheny that accompanied the feedwater streams draining into the Juniata River, a tributary of the Susquehanna that terminated on the Allegheny River due Northeast of Pittsburgh in what is now Armstrong County, Pennsylvania at the Native American Kittanning Village (at present-day ...
Allegheny Front Trail is a 41.8-mile (67.3 km) hiking trail that passes through Black Moshannon State Park and Moshannon State Forest. It was built in the late 1990s and offers several vistas looking out from atop the Allegheny Front. [12] [51] Blueberry Trail is a 1-mile (1,600 m) loop between the airport and bog with "abundant berries". [12]
The gaps of the Allegheny, [1] [2] meaning gaps in the Allegheny Ridge (now given the technical name Allegheny Front) in west-central Pennsylvania, is a series of escarpment eroding water gaps (notches or small valleys) along the saddle between two higher barrier ridge-lines in the eastern face atop the Allegheny Ridge or Allegheny Front ...
The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution, a part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.The facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (ref. # 79002157, added June 22, 1979) [3] and is designated as a Pennsylvania state [4] and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation [5] historic landmark.
It rises to an elevation of 4,770 feet (1,450 m), the elevational climax of the Allegheny Front. [ citation needed ] The mountain is named for 19th century writer and illustrator David Hunter Strother (1816–88), known as "Porte Crayon" ( French , porte-crayon : "pencil/crayon holder"), who produced a wide array of early West Virginia ...
The next significant obstacle is the Allegheny Front, another seemingly endless north–south ridge. In Forbes' era, there was doubt whether a break in the mountain was sufficient to permit wagon passage. After much exploration, Ensign Charles Rohr discovered a north-trending valley that, though quite steep, could be climbed by wagons.