Welcome to the Pennsylvania Forest Coalition
The Pennsylvania
Forest Coalition is a unique alliance of 2,746 hunters, hikers, anglers,
landowners, wildlife-watchers, paddlers, bikers, churches and conservation
groups who are united in our concern for the stewardship of our public lands.
We link
these groups together via e-mailings on environmental issues.
In memory of Advisors Cliff Dillman,
Les Haas and Anne Harris Katz.
Land Use Issues:
If you
can't measure it, you can't manage it.
DCNR currently managers
our State Forests well -- 88 percent of the certified timber harvested in PA is from our State Forests. But to retain FSC (Forest
Stewardship Council) certification, the forests must continue to be managed
sustainably. A maximum average of only 2% of our timberlands may be
converted to other uses. Additional leasing of our State Forests will
imperil that certification and over 80,000 forestry jobs that depend on our
timberlands.
- Moshannon
State Forest
- Tioga
State Forest
- Tiadaghton
State Forest
- Loyalsock
State Forest
- Sproul
State Forest
- Susquehannock State Forest
We appreciate the economic benefit of natural gas activities in
Because our landscapes are still scarred from the coal industry, we must
proceed with caution, not sacrificing the long term health and well-being of
our communities for short-term gain as we have in the past.
Earth Prayer
This earth we know.
This earth does
not belong to us; we belong to the earth.
This
we know.
All things are
connected like the blood which unites one family.
All things are connected.
~ Chief Seattle