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===Livability=== [[File:FEC-Fall-rainbow-hillside-Jeremy-Marshall-914246-edited.jpg|thumb|The Frick Environmental Center at [[Frick Park]]]] Pittsburgh has five city parks and several parks managed by the [[Nature Conservancy]]. The largest, [[Frick Park]], provides {{convert|664|acres|0}} of woodland park with extensive hiking and biking trails throughout steep valleys and wooded slopes. Birding enthusiasts visit the Clayton Hill area of Frick Park, where over 100 species of birds have been recorded.<ref>Visit Pittsburgh, [https://www.pittsburghparks.org/frick Frick Park], Pittsburgh, PA, 2015 version. Accessed November 16, 2015.</ref> Residents living in extremely low-lying areas near the rivers or one of the 1,400 creeks and streams may have occasional floods,<ref name="Puko">{{cite news |url=https://archive.triblive.com/news/huge-flood-control-cost-planning-mess-put-southwestern-pennsylvania-in-bind/ |title=Huge flood-control cost, planning mess put Southwestern Pennsylvania in bind β Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |last=Puko |first=Tim |date=May 17, 2010 |work=[[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]]|access-date=December 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520062827/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_681477.html|archive-date=May 20, 2010 }}</ref> such as those caused when the remnants of [[Hurricane Ivan]] hit rainfall records in 2004.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/local/north/2005/09/15/Damage-repaired-trauma-remains-after-2004-floods/stories/200509150366 |title=Damage repaired, trauma remains after 2004 floods |last=Stephenson |first=Philip A. |date=September 15, 2005 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|access-date=December 4, 2021}}</ref> River flooding is relatively rare due to federal flood control efforts extensively managing locks, dams, and reservoirs.<ref name="Puko"/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=R.M. |author2=Beer, K.M. |author3=Buckwalter, T.F. |author4=Clark, M.E. |author5=McAuley, S.D. |author6=Sams, J.I. III |author7=Williams, D.R. |year=2000 |title=Water Quality in the Allegheny and Monongahela River Basins Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, and Maryland, 1996β98 |journal=U.S. Geological Survey Circular |series=Circular |issue=1202 |page=2 |doi=10.3133/cir1202 |bibcode=2000usgs.rept....2A |url=http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1202/introduction.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2011/03/17/The-historic-St-Patrick-s-Day-Flood-of-1936-two-eyewitness-accounts/stories/201103170442 |title=The historic St. Patrick's Day Flood of 1936: two eyewitness accounts |last=Barcousky |first=Len |date=March 17, 2011 |website=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|access-date=March 17, 2011}}</ref> Residents living near smaller tributary streams are less protected from occasional flooding. The cost of a comprehensive flood control program for the region has been estimated at a prohibitive $50 billion.<ref name="Puko"/> Pittsburgh has the greatest number of bars per capita in the nation.<ref name=Ritenbaugh>{{cite news |last=Ritenbaugh |first=Stephanie |title=In The Lead: Pittsburgh leads with the most bars per person |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=May 14, 2014 |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/in-the-lead-2014-stories/2014/05/14/Community-Pittsburgh-most-bars-per-capita-second-most-pizza/stories/201405150065 |access-date=May 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515222028/http://www.post-gazette.com/in-the-lead-2014-stories/2014/05/14/Community-Pittsburgh-most-bars-per-capita-second-most-pizza/stories/201405150065 |archive-date=May 15, 2014 }}</ref>
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