{"id":27084,"date":"2025-12-18T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27084"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:20:45","slug":"delaware-county-conservation-district-completes-lawn-conversion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27084","title":{"rendered":"Delaware County Conservation District Completes Lawn Conversion Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27085\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27085\" class=\"wp-image-27085\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DelawareLC-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DelawareLC-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DelawareLC-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DelawareLC-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DelawareLC.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before photo of Truex seeding in late fall 2024, after summer herbicide treatment. After photo of Supplemental plug planting with county parks, Delaware County Conservation District staff, and Master watershed stewards in early fall 2025. Photo provided by Delaware County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Delaware County Conservation District helped convert one acre of maintained lawn in Rose Tree Park into a native meadow with a mini-grant provided by PACD\u2019s Lawn Conversion Program for Conservation Districts. The project used $2,653 in grant funding.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17544 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dcnr_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dcnr_logo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dcnr_logo-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>The Lawn Conversion Program for Conservation Districts is partially financed by a grant from the Community Conservation Partnerships Program, Environmental Stewardship fund, under the administration of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware County Conservation District helped convert one acre of maintained lawn in Rose Tree Park into a native meadow with a mini-grant provided by PACD\u2019s Lawn Conversion Program for Conservation Districts. The project used $2,653 in grant funding. The Lawn Conversion Program for Conservation Districts is partially financed by a grant from the Community 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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawn-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27084","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=27084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}