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Conservation Heritage
Senate Resolution Article By:
Wayne W. Kober, Chair
PAEP Conservation Heritage Committee
“PAEP’s Conservation Heritage Initiative Gets a Boost”
 On the evening of November 15, 2004 on the floor of the
Pennsylvania State Senate, Senator Jane M. Earll and 25
Senators successfully introduced
Senate Resolution 324
encouraging the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission (PHMC) to “work with other public and private
organizations to help promote local and regional
elements of the conservation heritage of the
Commonwealth.”
The PAEP Conservation Heritage Committee was
instrumental in drafting the resolution in cooperation
with the PHMC.
As a follow up to the Senate’s adoption of the
resolution, members of the Conservation Heritage
Committee along with PHMC staff met with Senator Earll
on February 2, 2005 to personally express appreciation
for her strong support of the resolution and its
successful introduction and to discuss next steps in
advancing conservation heritage initiatives. During the
meeting, Wayne Kober, Chair of the Conservation Heritage
Committee, and Dave Hess, former DEP Secretary, answered
the Senator’s questions about PAEP and the genesis of
the idea of capturing and promoting conservation
heritage education. Also, Marilyn Levin, PHMC
Legislative Liaison, and Beth Hager, PHMC Director of
Development, reviewed existing PHMC programs which
promote conservation heritage education and ideas for
new initiatives.
 Senate Earll encouraged the group to continue to work
together and keep her posted on the progress on
promoting the Commonwealth’s conservation heritage.
As a next step, the Conservation Heritage Committee
plans to meet with Barbara Franco, Executive Director of
PHMC, and her key staff to develop a plan for
strategically approaching joint PAEP/PHMC efforts to
pursue new conservation heritage initiatives and to
vitalize existing PHMC programs.
The members of the PAEP Conservation Heritage Committee
are: Robert Hosking, Senior Environmental Scientist,
McTish, Kunkel and Associates; Dave Hess, Director of
Policy and Communications, Holston and Crisci; Jim
Wilson, Resources Services Division, DCNR; and Wayne
Kober, President, Wayne W. Kober, Inc., Transportation
and Environmental Management Consulting.
Any PAEP members who are interested in serving on the
Conservation Heritage Committee should contact Wayne
Kober at: wwkpa@earthlink.net.
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