Pennsylvania
880,722
Acres Protected
That’s about 667,214 football fields!
Land trusts have already conserved 61 million acres of private land across the nation — more than all of the national parks combined. Help us conserve another 60 million acres by the end of the decade.
Together, let’s keep Gaining Ground.
Every land trust is as unique as the community it serves.
Pennsylvania land trusts are community-led and supported and protect lands and waters that help the entire state.
People
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46,664
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10,970
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423
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168
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869
Land Trust Longevity
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109 years old (1916)
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18 years old (2007)
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35 years old

WeConservePA
There has been a 36% increase in Pennsylvania land protected by land trusts since 2010.
Acre by acre, land trusts are helping to conserve Pennsylvania lands, waters and ways of life.
Disclaimer: Land trusts conserve land in many different ways and every project is unique. Category totals may change depending on how acres are reported by survey respondents to reflect the most current data and minimize double-counting. In some instances, the total may be greater than the sum of the separate categories due to organizations that provided total acres not broken down by category.
This information reflects data collected in the National Land Trust Census, the longest-running comprehensive survey of private land conservation in America. Learn more about the Census and see which land trusts participated in the 2020 National Land Trust Census.
Pennsylvania land trusts are gaining ground.
Land trusts across the state are helping find solutions to some of Pennsylvania's most pressing issues.
Land Trusts Working in Pennsylvania
Land Trust Alliance member land trusts, listed below, commit to adopting Land Trust Standards and Practices as their guiding principles.

Access Fund

Allegheny Land Trust

Allegheny Valley Trails Association

American Farmland Trust

Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Armstrong Trails, Inc.

Berks Nature

Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art

Brandywine Red Clay Alliance

Central Pennsylvania Conservancy

Centre County Farmland Trust

Chestnut Hill Conservancy

ClearWater Conservancy

Countryside Conservancy

Delaware Highlands Conservancy

Delaware Nature Society

Ducks Unlimited, Inc.

Edward L. Rose Conservancy

Evergreen Conservancy

Foundation for Sustainable Forests

Fox Chapel Area Land Trust

French Creek Valley Conservancy

French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust

Heritage Conservancy

Hollow Oak Land Trust

Independence Conservancy, Inc.

Lackawanna Valley Conservancy

Lancaster Conservancy

Lancaster Farmland Trust

Land Conservancy of Adams County

Land Trust of Bucks County

Lebanon Valley Conservancy

London Britain Township Land Trust

Lower Merion Conservancy

Manada Conservancy

Merrill W. Linn Land & Waterways Conservancy

Montour Trail Council

National Park Trust

Natural Lands

Neighborhood Gardens Trust

North Branch Land Trust

Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy

Open Land Conservancy of Chester County

Pennsbury Land Trust

Pine Creek Land Conservation Trust

Pocono Heritage Land Trust

Radnor Conservancy

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

Scott Conservancy

The Buck Hill Conservation Foundation

The Conservation Fund

The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust

The Nature Conservancy

The Trust for Public Land, National Office

Tinicum Conservancy

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Western Reserve Land Conservancy

Westmoreland Conservancy

Westmoreland Land Trust

Wildlands Conservancy
