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PACD has $55,000 available in the current Lawn Conversion Grant.<\/p>\r\nPACD has $55,000 available in the current Lawn Conversion Grant.<\/p>\r\n
This grant is first-come, first-served. The grant round will stay open until funds are expended or\u00a0June 30, 2028, whichever comes first.\u00a0Funding is to be used on shovel-ready projects converting presently maintained lawn to actively managed upland forest or perennial native meadow.<\/p>\r\n
All applications and supporting documents should be emailed to swehinger@pacd.org<\/a>. There is no online application. Applications will be approved on a rolling basis.<\/p>\r\n Thanks to conservation district staff, these programs have been incredibly successful in completing smaller-scale lawn conversion buffer projects across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\r\n Click here<\/a> for more information\u00a0or email Shannon Wehinger\u00a0swehinger@pacd.org<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PACD has $55,000 available in the current Lawn Conversion Grant. This grant is first-come, first-served. The grant round will stay open until funds are expended or\u00a0June 30, 2028, whichever comes first.\u00a0Funding is to be used on shovel-ready projects converting presently maintained lawn to actively managed upland forest or perennial native meadow. All applications and supporting […]<\/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-27146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawn-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27146","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=27146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dcnr_logo.jpg\"){kind=logo}
Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation.<\/em><\/p>\r\n