🌱Environmental Advocacy Scholarship $500 Award About the Scholarship The Friends of Governor Dick Environmental Advocacy Scholarship supports students who actively advocate for environmental protection, sustainability, and responsible stewardship of natural resources. This $500 award recognizes meaningful environmental engagement and encourages continued advocacy in the community, school, or even on a broader level. Environmental advocacy can […]

Perhaps you have heard of Friends of Governor Dick, but if you haven’t, allow us to introduce ourselves; Friends of Governor Dick is a Pennsylvania Non-Profit, formed from a diverse group of residents and visitors to the Governor Dick Park who wish to promote the continued health of the forest. Read on for how you

“What is this place?” That’s a question we often get at the Mount Gretna Visitors Center, or “My car slows down on its own when I approach Mount Gretna.” What makes people love visiting Mount Gretna (other than ice cream)? One could go into a lengthy explanation, but the resulting answer can be short: preservation

I am sharing my experience of acquiring a “Conservation Easement” granted by The Lebanon Valley Conservancy (LVC) and what it means to our family and community. As a child, my Uncle Phares sparked my interest in nature through hiking, fishing, bird watching, observing wildlife, and understanding of the natural environment.  The land protected in the

Trees reduce and remove greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon from the carbon dioxide in the air and converting it into the biomass of the tree.  By deferring, limiting, or eliminating future timber harvesting, forest landowners can generate Greenhouse Gas emission reductions and removals and receive compensation from project proponents or the purchaser(s) of the