Real and Lasting Improvements

Growing Greener has been hugely successful, directing critical investments to every county in the state. In the past four years alone, Growing Greener has helped people:

• Protect more than 33,700 acres of Pennsylvania’s family farmland;
• Conserve more than 42,300 acres of threatened open space;
• Enhance access to outdoor recreation through 234 community park projects and 132 state park and forest infrastructure projects;
• Reduce flooding and pollution of our waters through 400 watershed protection projects and more than 100 drinking/wastewater treatment improvement;
• Restore more than 1,600 acres of abandoned mine land.

The County Environmental Initiative Program has provided $66 million to help counties address their local environmental priorities.

Polls show strong, consistent public support for programs that improve our quality of life, the economy and the environ ment throughout Pennsylvania. Growing Greener has enjoyed strong, bipartisan support from voters, legislators, and gover nors for more than a decade.