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

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.

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.

Pennsylvania now has ten organizations that have achieved Accreditation through the Land Trust Accreditation Commission.

This piece presents a variety of alternative approaches to securing stewardship fees from future landowners, examines enforceability issues and describes legal risks and other considerations. It is the most comprehensive and in-depth examination of stewardship fee options ever published.

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.