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Photo By: Bruce Walkovich taken at Prince Gallitzin State Park. 2020
CAMP HILL, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, January 26, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation’s annual photo contest is kicking off for 2021, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Environmental Rights Amendment. Photographers are encouraged to look to the amendment for inspiration and to interpret the amendment through the lens. Added to the Pennsylvania Constitution in 1971 Section 27, Article One of the Pennsylvania Constitution states:
The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.
Coronavirus-hindered Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps pushed ahead in 2020
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
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Despite restrictions imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps managed to pull off another successful year in 2020, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Created in 2016, the corps offers work experience, job training and environmental educational opportunities to young people ages 15-25, who complete recreation and conservation projects on Pennsylvania’s public lands. In addition to hands-on job skills, the program provides learning opportunities weekly in resource management, environmental issues and topics, and recreation skills. Members also will be provided with workforce development training and materials.
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A misty morning on the Youghiogheny River has earned a Latrobe woman an award in the Pennsylvania Parks and Forest Foundation’s “Through the Seasons” photo contest.
Clare Kaczmarek, 68, won the Judges’ Choice award in the contest’s “Motion” category for her photo of the river running through a bed of rocks.
This year more than 100 photos were entered into the contest by amateur and professional photographers. The contest included seven categories: Park & Forest Adventures, Intergenerational Joy, Motion, Dogs In the Outdoors, Other Wildlife Sightings, Selfie, and Young Photographers.