In the January 3, 2010 edition of The Raleigh (NC) News and Observer, Char Miller, Senior Fellow for the Pinchot Institute and Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College, and James G. Lewis explore the comparisons between the words of Gifford Pinchot in the early 1940s and Obama at the Copenhagen climate-change meetings.

The 21st Annual DC Environmental Film Festival will include a free screening of Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot on Thursday, March 21st at 5:30pm at the National Portrait Gallery.

Instead of selling or logging their land to pay medical bills as they age, could family forest owners trade carbon credits for health care?

A new pilot program in Columbia County is trying to find way for small forestland owners to pay for healthcare without cutting more trees. It’s next in a series on innovative environmental ideas.

Collectively, small private landowners own a lot of the tree-covered turf in the U.S. But a lot of that forestland – an area the size of Idaho, according to the Pinchot Institute for Conservation – is at risk of being lost to development as owners age over the next 20 years.

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A study of the potential health impacts of gas drilling has been proposed for the Delaware River Basin.  The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health proposed the Health Impact Assessment (HIA), believed to be only the third of its kind in the country.  The idea of an HIA came out of a December 2010 meeting of stakeholders in the Pinchot Institute’s Marcellus Shale Report, an overview of best management practices, current regulations and natural resource information.

Read the River Reporter article here .

Ecosystem Marketplace has published a two-part feature on the Pinchot Institute's Bay Bank, an innovative program to help landowners earn credit for conservation measures undertaken on their property. Part one focusses on how the Bay Bank can specifically help family farmers and small landowners; the second part profiles a landowner demonstration project featuring brook trout credits. For more information about the Bay Bank please visit the Bay Bank program page.

After an interview with authors of the Pinchot Institute's report, "Managing Deer in the Commonwealth: A Study of Pennsylvania and other States," Bryon Shissler and Marrett Grund, Ad Crable discusses deer management legislation and policy.

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LandServer has added a new feature for Maryland landowners to help connect with land trusts.

Lou Etgen, program director of the Alliance of the Chesapeake Bay reports in the Chesapeake Bay Journal of the collaborative effort between the Pinchot Institute, Sustainable Solutions, LLC and the Alliance of the Chesapeake Bay to develop LandServer, a conservation assessment tool for landowners, producers and property managers, now available online.

Six retired Chiefs of the Forest Service call on Senate to extend stewardship contracting authority.

Producers of wood pellets in the United States will need to meet or exceed sustainability standards set by the European Union and individual European countries to protect the health of forests, while accessing expanding export markets.

Starting in March, keep your eyes peeled for Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot on your local PBS affiliate (check your local listings here). Seeking the Greatest Good is a documentary produced by the public television station WVIA that links Gifford Pinchot’s conservation philosophy with the Pinchot Institute for Conservation’s (PIC) efforts to address contemporary environmental issues.

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Water quality is one of the most significant environmental issues facing watersheds across the country. States have used different forms of water quality trading over the last decades as a flexible tool for meeting water quality goals. This report gathers those successes, failures, and valuable lessons learned from pioneering groups to help new trading programs lay the groundwork for success.

The Forest Guild and the Pinchot Institute are pleased to announce a new website presenting a series of videos about forest biomass harvest and retention guidelines.