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Regular Registration Ends March 19 for the Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference!

Join with 400 friends and colleagues for the conservation event of the year. Submit three or more paid registrations and receive one FREE registration! (read more)

After They Drill, Who Pays the Bill?

Natural gas extraction imposes heavy costs on our communities: air pollution; pipelines, drilling pads and wastewater pits scarring our landscapes; heavy rigs damaging our roads; billions of gallons of water taken from our streams; and operational errors contaminating our land and water. Get information and see policy proposals related to natural gas drilling at landandwater.org. (read more)

$1.3 Billion Diverted, Cut From Environmental Programs Over Last 8 Years

If Gov. Rendell's proposed 2010-11 budget becomes law, a total of $1.3 billion has been diverted or cut from environmental programs to help balance the state budget or to fund programs that could not get funding on their own over the last eight years. (read more)

ConserveLand Newsletter (Winter 2010)

Check out the latest issue of the ConserveLand Newsletter, including the most recent Case Law Review. (read more)

ConservationTools.org Launched

A New and Free Conservation Resource...Enjoy the site's rich content base made possible by the dozens of individuals and organizations who contributed their expertise. (read more)

How Much Do We Value Conservation?

In the coming years, what should state spending priorities be? Should Growing Greener be renewed? If so, how much money? $1 billion? $2 billion? (read more)

Two for Two: Successful Local Open Space Referenda

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Request for Qualifications and Proposals

The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association, in partnership with Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, seeks the development of technical guidance on land use planning tools that can help guide growth, protect resources and improve community design. If you have deep technical knowledge on one or more tools and strong writing skills, we would like to explore securing your services. (read more)

Gas Leasing in State Forests: Numbers Don’t Add Up

Numbers in budget proposal on natural gas leasing on State Forest lands don’t add up according to DCNR. (read more)

Conservation Maven: An online hub for the conservation community

A new resources providing conservation professionals valuable information, including funding resources and groundbreaking studies. (read more)

Association Files Brief in Conservation Case of the Century

In defense of conservation, the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association, as lead amicus, filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court. Joining the Association are the PA Recreation and Park Society, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and others. (read more)

PA Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Land Trust in Rail-Trail Dispute

Allegheny Valley Land Trust and Armstrong Trail supporters secure major victory in decade long battle with adjacent property owners. (read more)

2010 Community Conservation Partnerships Program (C2P2) Open Application Period

DCNR Announces Round 16 of the Community Conservation Partnerships Program. (read more)

New Proposed Federal Transmission Policies Extend Beyond Corridors to Threaten More Land and Water Protection

Legislative activity as well as industry activity are shaping land conservation future. The new changes also undermine greenhouse gas policies while creating immediate and direct threats to conserved lands. (read more)

Join Us On Facebook - Everyone's doing it!

An easy way to stay up to date on PALTA and conservation-related events, news and information. (read more)

What Types of Conserved Land Do We Have in PA and How Much?

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Oil and Gas Lease Fund Can Create Jobs and Reinvest in Our Parks and Forests

Governor Rendell has a great opportunity to boost the economy using existing revenue and using authority already provided by the General Assembly: The opening of our publicly owned forests to drilling by private companies for Marcellus shale natural gas recently generated $190 million for the state’s Oil and Gas Lease Fund. Through seven recessions and five decades, the Oil and Gas Lease Fund has supported conservation, recreation, dams and flood control projects. The $190 million influx to the Fund provides the Governor with a golden opportunity to make job-creating capital investments in Pennsylvania’s green infrastructure. (read more)

The Conservation Easement Assistance Program is now expanded to include installing signs, amending easements, and more. To learn more, visit http://conserveland.org/ceap/.

Natural Gas Resources

Handouts and presentations for Natural Gas & Land Conservation Conference now available as well as additional resources, including the NEW Conserveland Natural Gas Listserv. (read more)

IconservePA -- Engaging Pennsylvanians in Conservation

Learn about DCNR's new outreach program and how you can become more involved. (read more)

Join the ConserveLand Listserv!

The ConserveLand Listserv is a networking resource for land conservation professionals and volunteers. Sign up today! (read more)

Land Conservation Votes 2008

Five Local Land Conservation Measures Win Overwhelming Support in General Election (read more)

A Gas & Oil resource is now available through the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts. The publication is entitled Mineral Development and Land Conservation Handbook and is available at http://www.cclt.org/mineralhandbookpurchase.html.

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Farm preservation project slows down with the economy
Mar 15, 2010   LANCASTER — Three decades after it began, a central Pennsylvania  county's model farmland preservation program is seeing a slowing of county  and private contributions amid the down economy...  - AP

Bees are busier than ever as disease besieges colonies
Mar 15, 2010   By Adrian Higgins  Monday, March 15, 2010; A05  In normal times, David Hackenberg would begin trucking his 20 million  honeybees from the almond orchards of California to the orange groves of  Florida this week.  Instead, after a month working the almond blossoms on the West Coast, his...  - WASH POST

Cashing in on recycling
Mar 15, 2010   Electric utilities will dispose of working refrigerators, freezers and air  conditioners, and you can make some money in the process.  There's no question that the removal and disposal of old appliances can be  a headache.  But if you want to get rid of an old working refrigerator or freezer, your...  - READING EAGLE

$4M river study center on way
Mar 15, 2010   SUNBURY — Five years after an environmental group named the Susquehanna  “America’s Most Endangered River” due to the excessive  pollution it receives, a Valley organization learned it will have a  permanent Shikellamy State Park home to monitor the health of the...  - DAILY ITEM

County set to take next step for off-road park
Mar 15, 2010   SUNBURY - Plans are progressing toward bringing a recreational, off-highway  vehicle park to the area, covering as many as 6,000 acres stretching from  Mount Carmel Township to Zerbe Township.  Now that municipal leaders have passed resolutions in support of a  feasibility study for the park, county officials plan to go full steam...  - NEWS ITEM

New Garden task force plans to increase township's open space
Mar 15, 2010   By WM. SHAWN WEIGEL  With about 1,000 acres under its belt for 2009, the New Garden Open Space  Task Force is busy formulating a plan for the upcoming year.  That's according to Bernie McKay, open space committee chairman, in an  annual report to the New Garden Township board of supervisors on Monday,...  - WC DAILY

Neighbors take a stand on noise, odor of gas drilling
Mar 14, 2010   Just outside a fence enclosing a field on Debbie Hanes' farm near Hickory  in Washington County sits a noisy, smelly, two-story natural gas compressor  station, running 24/7 and lit up at night like a minor league baseball  park.  The rumbling noise of the four compressors in what's known as the Fulton...  - POST-GAZ.

Pennsylvania could face fewer wildfires this spring
Mar 14, 2010   Although 85 percent of the state's wildfires occur in the three-month  period beginning in March, local officials are hopeful the record snowfall  and recent rain will shorten the usual wildfire season.  "Obviously, there is no current problem," said Brian Vinski of Forbes...  - TRIB

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