About CPC

Central Pennsylvania Conservancy Mission
To conserve natural and cultural resources for the benefit of current and future generations through the protection of open space in the central Pennsylvania region.

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Central Pennsylvania Service Area
CPC’s service area includes Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry and Snyder counties. Within that area, CPC is focused on the protection of the Kittatinny Ridge (known locally as Blue Mountain), agricultural preservation, watershed conservation and riparian protection, sustainable development, and culturally important areas with historical or recreational significance.

CPC a Leading Land Trust in PA
The national Land Trust Alliance recently ranked all of the Pennsylvania land trusts for 2003. Although ranked as a small conservancy (1-3.5 employees), CPC scored well:

 

• 5th in number of land acquisitions
• 5th in total acreage transferred to government for conservation.
• 16th in total number of conservation easements (right behind Western PA Conservancy)
• 19th in total acreage under easement
• 11th in total acreage owned and managed

There are currently 100 land trusts in Pennsylvania.

Source: Land Trust Alliance Census Data, 2003 as published in the PALTA Winter 2006 newsletter.

CPC Acres Preserved

Property	County	Date	Acreage
Brady Bryner Preserve	Juniata	1993	257.21
Kingswood	Cumberland	1994	25.79
Gregory Alan Grening Preserve	Juniata	1996	23.00
Grening Preserve Addition	Juniata	1997	10.00
Thousand Steps	Huntingdon	1997	668.74
Seven Gables Park	Cumberland	1998	15.10
Jessie Tyler Easement	Perry	1998	168.12
Millers Gap (Witmer Tract)	Cumb./Perry	1999	66.19
Millers Gap (encroachment)	Cumberland	1999	11.90
Godshall Property	Huntingdon	2000	16.55
Melnyk Property (Incline Tract)	Huntingdon	2001	150
Millers Gap (Lightner Tract)	Perry	2001	79.25
Allison Easement (Phase 1)	Mifflin	2001	113.43
Fitzpatrick Easement	Perry	2001	78.71
Boyd Big Tree Addition	Dauphin	2002	79.7
Baker Easement	Juniata	2002	42.94
Half Falls Mountain Tract	Perry	2003	130.73
Elsesser Easement	Mifflin	2003	7.905
Port Royal Wetlands	Juniata	2003	14.12
Stoltzfus Easement	Perry	2004	73.51
Hail Easement	Dauphin	2004	149.92
Pine Hill Easement	Cumberland	2004	16.22
Morefield Easement	Cumberland	2004	28
McLaughlin Easement	Juniata	2004	68
Allison Easement (Phase 2)	Mifflin	2005	93.01
Bucher Tract	Cumberland	2005	66
Dahr Tract	Dauphin	2005	30.17
Halifax Township Park	Dauphin	2004	171.41
Shuman Easement	Perry	2005	106.28
Greenbelt Easement (Phase 1)	Dauphin	2006	6.51
Dubbs Easement	Huntingdon	2006	64.7
Brownback Easement	Perry	2006	181.21
Dodson Easement (Phase 1)	Perry	2006	70.72
Giest	Adams	2007	68.68
TOTAL = 3,026.29