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		<title>Sleeping With the Enemy?</title>
		<link>http://blog.conserveland.org/2012/02/03/sleeping-with-the-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Written by Joseph Kiesecker Published on February 25th, 2011  Originally published in CoolGreenScience. The Nature Conservancy works routinely with extractive industries – like oil and gas and mining companies — industries with the potential to have some of the most significant environmental impacts. Why isn’t that greenwashing, as some of our critics claim? Why is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=967&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catalyst for Conservation: New Book Chronicles Brandywine Conservancy&#8217;s Successful Work to Conserve King Ranch Property</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of acres permanently protected from development help keep the Brandywine watershed healthy Catalyst for Conservation traces the history of the Brandywine Conservancy&#8217;s work to save the property from development, which ultimately resulted in permanently protecting 4,596 acres by conservation easements and setting aside another 771 acres as the Laurels Preserve. The streams and springs throughout [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=962&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Advisory Committees and Historic Preservation</title>
		<link>http://blog.conserveland.org/2012/01/21/environmental-advisory-committees-and-historic-preservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental Advisory Committees and Historic Preservation At first glance a historic district appears to be separate from the purpose of an Environmental Advisory Committee at the township or county level. For townships without a historic preservation committee or historic zoning ordinances, establishing these ordinances can be an essential tool in land preservation and protection, one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=938&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ailanthus altissima, a Problem Land Managers Can Eliminate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ailanthus altissima, a Problem Land Managers Can Eliminate &#160; Ailanthus altissima is one of many non-native invasive plants that plague land managers in Pennsylvania.  In our area, it is the most common non-native invasive tree.  Its strengths are It is clonal, a mature female produces a huge number of samaras each year which can spread [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=944&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Activism – Why and How: An Ecologists Speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental Activism – Why and How An Ecologist Speaks Activism is intimately attached to the profession of an ecologist.  To become a part of a discipline that is as important to human survival and quality of life as protecting the natural world from human ignorance, willfulness and greed is to become an activist.  To be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=940&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Highlands Funds Protect the Oley Hills</title>
		<link>http://blog.conserveland.org/2012/01/13/federal-highlands-funds-protect-the-oley-hills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 12th, Congressman Jim Gerlach, AMC and the Highlands Coalition, joined The Berks Conservancyand other partners to celebrate the preservation of 582 acres in the Oley Hills region east of Reading, made possible with $492,750 in federal Highlands Conservation Act funding, provided through the Land and Water Conservation Fund.  The addition brings the total to 2,800 acres that have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=934&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preservation Still Matters</title>
		<link>http://blog.conserveland.org/2012/01/11/preservation-still-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post By Kate Harper, Chair, Montgomery County Lands Trust Two large properties are for sale in my neighborhood. Together, they represent about 250 acres. The development of either or both has the potential to radically change our community. My neighbors are worried—they have grown used to the lovely vistas of fields and forests they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=931&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preservation of 467 Acres and Jeffrey Marshall’s Advancement to President</title>
		<link>http://blog.conserveland.org/2012/01/09/property-acquisitions-and-the-elevation-of-a-dedicated-leader-close-the-year-for-heritage-conservancy-preservation-of-467-acres-and-jeffrey-marshalls-advancement-to-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heritage Conservancy, an accredited not-for-profit conservation organization that specializes in preserving our natural and historic heritage, announced the preservation of 467 acres of land in 2011, while simultaneously announcing the elevation of the Conservancy’s Chief Preservation Officer, Jeffrey Marshall, to President of the organization. Due to partnerships with federal, state, county and municipal agencies, Heritage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=928&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smarter Than God and Greedier than Satan, The Arrogance of Humans Towards the Environment</title>
		<link>http://blog.conserveland.org/2011/12/12/smarter-than-god-and-greedier-than-satan-the-arrogance-of-humans-towards-the-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two largest issues in ecology are 1.) that people constantly think that they are smarter than God, that they can Improve on Nature and what God has created and 2.) selfish and short sighted greed, which makes Satan look like an angel of Light.  Together these two issues, which are inherent in humans, have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=923&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriotism and Environmentalism</title>
		<link>http://blog.conserveland.org/2011/11/11/patriotism-and-environmentalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patriotism and Environmentalism Richard Gardner September 16, 2011 “The health of a country depends on the health of its ecosystems.  When a society pushes the carrying capacity of their ecosystems to the limits, a small disruption is all that is necessary for the ecosystems and immediately thereafter, the society, to collapse.  In North America, both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.conserveland.org&amp;blog=10967824&amp;post=918&amp;subd=conserveland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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