Draft:Camp Lambec

Camp Lambec is a camp located on Lake Erie in East Springfield, Pennsylvania. Located in the historic Erie Triangle, it is just north of Pennsylvania Route 5 and 20 mi west of Erie, Pennsylvania. The camp is a 92 acre facility operated by the Camping Association of the Presbyteries of Northwestern Pennsylvania (CAPNWP). In 1947, the property was purchased from the YWCA of Youngstown, Ohio by the CAPNWP. Lambec Pond, and the surrounding wetlands, were created from the damming of Beaver Creek, which flows into Lake Erie.

Background
Located near Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 314 and the David M. Roderick Wildlife Reserve, Lambec was founded in 1947 by six presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church in the northwestern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northwestern New York region. The camp was purchased from the YWCA, to offer programs and offer outreach to the people in the area.

At that time, other programs run by the presbyteries were moved from Camp Caledon. The six presbyteries that formed the Camping Association of the Presbyteries of Northwestern Pennsylvania (CAPNWP), a 501c3 charitable non-profit based in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. 'LAMBEC' is an acronym of the presbyteries' first initials. The camp was founded to provide a summer camp experience to local Presbyterian youth. Lambec is open three seasons of the year from March 1 through early November. It offers summer programs from late June through early August. Changing times, and economic difficulties, have caused a decrease in camp attendance at this camp, and others in the region.

Lambec is close to YMCA Camp Fitch. It operates in tandem with Westminster Highlands, a larger sized camp also operated by CAPNWP, was founded later.

Lambec Music Camp
One week each summer the camp offers a music camp. The Lambec Music Camp use trains elementary and secondary school age children in choral and instrumental music as a means of Christian evangelization.

Children throughout the region attend the camp.

Wetlands
The camp is situated along Beaver Creek that flows into Lake Erie, but when the water from Lake Erie was deemed unhealthy, the small stream was dammed up and a Lambec Pond was created. The pond is suitable for fishing, boating and nature walks, and there is a wetland on the camp property. The camp itself is a designated area along Lake Erie.

The camp sits approximately 29 feet above the elevation of the lake. The wetland is forested and the bluffs that form this part of the lakeshore are composed of lacustrine silt and sand deposited from glacial lakes. The wetland lies in a valley with a small tributary that flows into the lake. The stream was dammed to form the lake.