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Centre County Master Watershed Steward Art Gover Earns Natural Resource Education Award

PA Environment Daily

Gover, based in Centre County, recently earned the 2023 Natural Resource Education Champion Award from the PA Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals. Volunteering gives me an avenue to stay more formally connected with my former Penn State colleagues in Extension and natural resource management,” he said.

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Senate Confirms Cindy Adams Dunn As Secretary of the Department Of Conservation & Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

On June 7, the overwhelmingly confirmed Cindy Adams Dunn to serve as the Secretary of Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Tom Wolf, and will continue to advocate for and protect Pennsylvania’s natural resources.

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Registration Open For 7-Part Online Tree Tenders Training Workshop Starting Jan. 17 Thru Feb. 28

PA Environment Daily

Since 2004, the program has been supported by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. In 2008 the program expanded to Pittsburgh and smaller metropolitan areas, and since 2013 it has been available statewide. Since 1993 PHS has trained over 4,500 Tree Tenders in 150 Pennsylvania neighborhoods.

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Losing Justice Hobbs, Western Water Expert and Valued Mentor

Legal Planet

The discussion that day ranged widely, touching on his background , environmental and natural resources law, what it was like to be a Justice, what he valued in a clerk, and the active role poetry played in his life. I had never met a judge before, and hadn’t really considered the idea of a clerkship.

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Can Standing Trees Be Taken?

Acoel

595 , 606 (2013). The parties agreed, as they had to, that the township’s permit conditions contained an essential nexus to the township’s legitimate interest in natural resource preservation. Johns River Water Management District , 570 U.S. And there are other less obvious but equally important benefits of tree preservation.

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Energy transition and social sciences – How can environmental sociology help us expand the understanding of energy transitions?

HumanNature

Annual review of environment and resources, 34, 405-430. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors. Environmental Sociology, 1(3), 139-142. Pellow, D., & Roberts, J. Environmental justice. Newell, P., & Mulvaney, D. The political economy of the ‘just transition’.

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Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay Recognizes PA Master Watershed Steward Jodi Sulpizio, Jodi Rose, Interfaith Partners For Chesapeake, As Watershed Champions

PA Environment Daily

Jodi Sulpizio Jodi Sulpizio is a natural resources educator for Penn State Extension in York County and coordinates its Master Watershed Steward Program and Spongy Moth Program. Sulpizio is passionate about empowering both citizens and volunteers to protect our natural resources.