{"id":22622,"date":"2021-08-27T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T13:15:33","slug":"conservationists-testify-on-invasive-species-in-the-commonwealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=22622","title":{"rendered":"Conservationists Testify on Invasive Species in the Commonwealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BrianJody-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BrianJody-1024x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22623\" width=\"476\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BrianJody-1024x295.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BrianJody-300x87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BrianJody-1536x443.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BrianJody-2048x591.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Screenshots of Brian Pilarcik and Jody Groshek providing testimony.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 24, 2021, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania held a virtual public hearing on the negative impact of invasive species in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania\u2019s conservation districts provided testimony at the hearing. Conservation district representatives outlined the importance of developing and funding a statewide invasive species program.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Pilarcik is the Watershed Specialist for the Crawford County Conservation District. Pilarcik spoke about the aquatic invasive species, hydrilla, in the Pymatuning Reservoir. Pilarcik\u2019s testimony is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/BPilarcik\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/BPilarcik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second conservation district speaker was Jody Groshek, the Communications and Outreach Director at McKean County Conservation District. She spoke about the importance of developing a coordinated statewide effort to address the threat of invasive species to Pennsylvania\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Groshek\u2019s full testimony is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/Groshek\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/Groshek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s conservation districts support cooperative invasive species work, which will benefit all Pennsylvanians.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Testimony-on-Invasive-Species-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 24, 2021, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania held a virtual public hearing on the negative impact of invasive species in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania\u2019s conservation districts provided testimony at the hearing. Conservation district representatives outlined the importance of developing and funding a statewide invasive species program. Brian Pilarcik is the Watershed Specialist for the Crawford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}