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WeConservePA Winter Lecture This event begins promptly at 10:15 am and is preceded by WeConservePA’s annual meeting of members. You can attend one without the other. In any case, the same registration is used for both the annual meeting and winter lecture. The goal of the Pennsylvania Outdoor Corp is to protect and restore the […]
Participants will take away information that they can use to help reduce disputes, know common issues affecting conserved properties, and understand how Terrafirma can benefit their land trust’s risk management strategy.
Join Recreation and Conservation Program Specialist Josh VanBrakle with DCNR for a virtual reprise of his popular land conservation conference session. Visual communication is critical to conservation work. As we share ever more content through videos, social media, and interactive websites, we increasingly depend on images to tell our stories. As students we spent years […]
Reprise of 2024 Land Conservation Conference Session Property review is an essential step in determining if a property is worth conserving, how it may rank in priority with other potential properties, and if a land trust has the capacity to take on a new project. The Land Trust Alliance’s Accreditation Standard #08 addresses Evaluating and […]
This session will outline the process, timing and key elements that turn strategic planning into a critical tool for developing your organizations, departments, and/or committee’s strategic thinking.
For some conservation practitioners, a cloud hangs over discussions of amending grants of conservation easement. This session will offer an organized overview of the legal and kind-of-legal authorities that bear on these decisions.
Model My Watershed® is an open access watershed-modeling web application, developed by the Stroud Water Research Center (and partners), which allows users to analyze real land-use and soil data, model stormwater runoff and water quality impacts, and run comparisons on how different conservation or development strategies can impact runoff and water quality. Join David Arscott, Ph.D., […]
In this session, we will review the statutes, doctrines, and legal tools that safeguard our parks and open spaces and consider some problematic gray areas where special care is advised.
RESCHEDULED TO OCTOBER 1, 1PM Pennsylvania law favors the protection of public parks, open spaces, and natural resources. But leaving things to the operation of law invites serious (and sometimes surprising) risks. In some instances, residents may find themselves without clear recourse to prevent the loss or repurposing of supposedly protected land. In others, unforeseen […]
This is a time of unprecedented funding opportunities for land conservation but knowing where to look, tackling capacity restraints, and getting the training needed to succeed can be challenging. This session will identify and demo a selection of new tools and programs available to support land trusts with the funding process. Highlighted will be WALT: […]
