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2019 Biennial Census Report

07/17/2020

The 2019 biennial census report was recently released. Highlights from the report found that between 2010 and 2019, land trusts in Pennsylvania:

  • Expanded the lands they have conserved by 35%;
  • Conserved 207,000 acres of land (323 sq. mi. – roughly the size of Lehigh County);
  • On average, conserved 57 acres every day;
  • Increased their acreage protected with perpetual conservation easements by 40%;
  • Increased their acreage owned by 51%;
  • Increased by 27% the land transferred to governments for parks, game lands, and other public conservation purposes;
  • More than 100,000 Pennsylvanians contribute to land trusts;
  • Sixty-nine land trusts have a median of 368 contributors

Eighty-four land trusts have completed conservation real estate transactions in Pennsylvania.

The full report can be read here.

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