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PACD Receives $100,000 Grant from DCNR to Offer Lawn Conversion Program to Conservation Districts

Written by Shannon Wehinger on . Posted in Lawn Conversion

PACD was recently awarded a Community Conservation Partnerships Program Grant from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to offer Lawn Conversion training and mini-grants to Pennsylvania’s conservation districts. The lawn conversion program will help the Commonwealth achieve a goal of planting 5,000 acres of upland forest and 5,000 acres of meadow by 2025.

More information about trainings and mini-grants will be available in the coming weeks when agreements are finalized.