David M. Roderick Wildlife Preserve

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The David M. Roderick Wildlife Reserve was dedicated in July 1991. The United States Steel Corporation (now usx) owned the property, which it had bought from Andrew Carnegie early in the 1900s. (Carnegie intended to build a steel mill on the site, but those plans were changed in the 1960s.) David M. Roderick—for whom the reserve is named—was chief executive officer of usx from 1979 to 1989 as well as an avid outdoorsman with an abiding interest in conservation. During Roderick’s tenure as ceo, the property was sold to the Mellon Foundation, which turned it over to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. The Conservancy sold the reserve to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. www.psupress.org/Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteMi...
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Coordinates:   41°58'18"N   80°29'31"W
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