Stories
These stories provide real life examples of how land trusts, landowners and others have worked cooperatively to conserve special places in Pennsylvania for the benefit of all.

Library
View and download files of land conservation-related articles, booklets, brochures, etc. Or add your materials to the collection.

Links
Check out links to conservation-related news, information and commentary websites; nonprofit websites; Pa. government websites; etc. Suggest new links too.

More Conservation Information
Introduction to Land Trusts and Their Work
Introduction to Conservation Easements
Starting a Land Trust
Land Trust Alliance
Public Opinion
Benefits of Open Space Protection
Facts
State-Administered Open Space Funding Programs
Local Funding Initiatives
Worth Noting: Legal Briefs

Introduction to Land Trusts and Their Work
Land trusts are charitable organizations that work cooperatively with landowners to conserve land in the public interest. Click on the heading to read a short essay on land trusts and their work.

Introduction to Conservation Easements
A conservation easement is an agreement between a landowner and a land trust or governmental body that limits certain uses on all or a portion of a property while keeping the property in the landowner’s ownership and control. Click on the heading for more information.

Starting a Land Trust
Click on the heading for information on starting a land trust to work to identify and tap the energies and resources of all who are sympathetic to your conservation concerns.

Land Trust Alliance
To order the excellent resource materials produced by the national Land Trust Alliance, visit www.lta.org.)

Public Opinion
Click on the heading for a summary of public opinion polls relevant to land conservation.

Benefits of Open Space Protection
Click on the heading for a summary of the economic, fiscal, community and ecological benefits of land conservation.

Facts
Click on the heading for various facts and statistics related to land conservation.
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State-Administered Open Space Funding Programs
Click on the heading to review the major state-administered funding programs for voluntary land conservation.

Local Funding Initiatives
Clicking on the heading takes you to the Local Funding Initiatives section in the Public Policy web area.

Worth Noting: Legal Briefs
Clicking on the heading takes you to a compilation of legal briefs, documenting rulings that have impacting conservation.