{"id":25548,"date":"2023-08-18T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25548"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:13:45","slug":"grant-period-opens-for-north-west-pennsylvania-prism-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25548","title":{"rendered":"Grant Period Opens for North West Pennsylvania PRISM Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PRISMsmaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24990 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PRISMsmaller-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PRISMsmaller-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PRISMsmaller-1024x381.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PRISMsmaller-768x286.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PRISMsmaller-1536x571.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PRISMsmaller.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>PACD was awarded a $210,000 Landscape Scale Restoration grant from the USDA Forest Service to pilot a Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) program in the North West region of Pennsylvania. The NW region covers 13 counties: Erie, Warren, McKean, Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Forest, Elk, Lawrence, Butler, Clarion, Jefferson, and Armstrong.<\/p>\r\n<p>The NW conservation districts will form advisory groups consisting of local partner organizations and community members to identify and prioritize projects in their counties. Projects may be educational events and\/or treatment projects.<\/p>\r\n<p>$40,000 of the grant will be used for education &amp; outreach mini-grants. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?page_id=25431&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0for more information on the Education &amp; Outreach Mini-grant Program.<\/p>\r\n<p>$149,000 will be used for invasive species treatment and management projects. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?page_id=25438&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>  for more information on the Management Project Sub-grant Program.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Financial and other support for the PRISM Pilot Program in NW Pennsylvania is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a Landscape Scale Restoration Grant from the USDA Forest Service. \u201cThis institution is an equal opportunity provider.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PACD was awarded a $210,000 Landscape Scale Restoration grant from the USDA Forest Service to pilot a Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) program in the North West region of Pennsylvania. The NW region covers 13 counties: Erie, Warren, McKean, Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Forest, Elk, Lawrence, Butler, Clarion, Jefferson, and Armstrong. The NW conservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25548","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=25548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}