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Learn how a small land trust’s ideas came to fruition after years of hard work, resulting in a county wide tax increase for land conservation. Teamwork, marketing, grants, polling, luck, humor, sacrifice, and more all contributed to a successful campaign despite limited resources. Join Farm & Natural Lands Trust of York County’s Executive Director Sean […]
In this presentation, originally presented at the 2023 Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference, each section of a title binder will be reviewed with an explanation of what each one is and what they mean to insuring a title. Also covered will be how things that turn up on the title search need to be handled and […]
Member organizations are requested to attend WeConservePA’s annual meeting of members to elect WeConservePA board members and meet WeConservePA officers and staff.
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., […]
