PA Land Trust Assn. Issues New Guides For Permits On Conserved Land, Many Other Topics

The PA Land Trust Association has published new and updated guides so far this year on 2 dozen topics of interest to land trusts and landowners.  The guides and much more can be found on PALTA’s Conservation Tools website.

This week, PALTA added a new permits section to its Conservation Tools website for those land managers who want to require permits for certain activities on conservation lands.

New Guides

PALTA has published 11 new guides in 2019, their content ranging from concise, one-page curated listings of links to key resources from around the web to multi-page, in-depth analyses of issues. 

Titles and links to these guides are as follows:

-- Climate Change and Land Conservation

-- Community Gardens

-- Don’t Regulate Rooftop Solar Without Compelling Cause

-- Encroachment: Permitting Continued Use Without Risking Loss of Ownership

-- Green Burial

-- Overview of Pennsylvania's Recreational Use of Land and Water Act

-- Permits for Events, Hunting, Camping, and Other Uses of Conserved Lands

-- Planned Giving

-- Prescribed Fire

-- Succession Planning for Nonprofits

-- Working with Nature to Manage Stormwater

Updated Guides

PALTA has updated and revised 13 of its guides thus far in 2019, part of the Association’s ongoing commitment to keeping ConservationTools.org fresh. Changes ranged from complete rewrites reflecting changes in the law and new understandings in the field to miscellaneous edits to improve readability and utility. 

Titles and links to these guides are as follows:

-- Community Visioning

-- Conservation by Design

-- Elections and 501(c)(3) Organizations

-- Floristic Quality Assessment

-- Guide to Pennsylvania's Recreational Use of Land and Water Act: A Law

-- Limiting the Liability of Those Who Open Their Land to the Public

-- Land Trust Accreditation

-- Seller Take Back Financing

-- Sign Ordinance

-- Steep Slope Ordinance

-- Street and Sidewalk Design

-- Transfer of Development Rights

-- Urban Growth Boundary

-- Zoning for Solar and Wind Energy Systems

Visit PALTA’s Conservation Tools website for help with other land conservation issues and policies.

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(Reprinted from the latest Conservation Land Update from PALTA.)

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