Consistent with its mission statement – “Saving the places we care about by connecting people to the natural world” – the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy converted a 12,000-square-foot bank barn in Steward Township, Fayette County into conference and event space on the Bear Run Nature Reserve.  The barn is located along a business route connecting to tourist and recreation areas and adjacent to Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned Fallingwater.  The upper level of the original barn, which dates to the 19^th century, is used for exhibits, lectures and other social functions.  New conservation-based education and outreach programs are now housed in the structure.  And providing a special bat habitat for bats displaced from the rafters of the renovated barn was a high priority.