Your Membership Matters...Sooner than Later! Right now, the board and staff of the French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust are rushing headlong into 2008, energized by the success of landing 11 new easements in 5 different townships, plus facilitating the purchase of 36 acres for a new park. Altogether last year, we conserved more than 400 acres. In addition, we were recognized by the press for securing over $2.6 MILLION in grant awards to protect environmentally sensitive properties in our watersheds. FPCCT had a terrific year, but neither continued success nor the pace of change is bounded by the calendar. Events (some not in our favor) continue to unfold and now is the time for action. Thomas Friedman, reporting on the recent UN climate change conference, said it best in The New York Times: Later is over for our generation . Later was a luxury for previous generations and civilizations. It meant that you could paint the same landscape, see the same animals, climb the same trees, fish the same rivers, enjoy the same weather or rescue the same endangered species that you did when you were a kid—but just do it later, whenever you got around to it. Later is no longer when you get to do all those same things—just on your time schedule.* Our time schedule for land conservation is now: To reach our important goal of 5,000 preserved acres in five years, we must try to double last year's protection success in 2008. In the long run, which may not be very long at all, the health and welfare of our community depends on an environment that functions and supports us all. Please join us now. We need your participation to paint the same landscape and fish the same rivers. With your help, we pledge to earn the best return possible on your membership investment: Ever-larger expanses of permanently protected landscape in Northern Chester County . For now and for later. Join the Trust today! Please print the application below, Membership in the Trust: I/We Wish to Enclose: $ I/We are (circle one): New Member Renewing Membership Name_______________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________ City ______________________________ State ________ Zip _______ Township ___________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________________________________ Email _______________________________________________________ Are you interested in volunteering at the Trust? _____Yes ____ No
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