Pennsylvania Public Natural Resources Trust (PennsWoodsTrust)
Over 50 years ago, we the people of Pennsylvania declared our public natural resources to be held in trust through Article I, Section 27 of our state constitution.
We directed our state and local government officials to conserve and maintain these trust assets for us and for future generations.
Yet today many of our government trustees routinely take actions that affect our public natural resources without fulfilling their fiduciary duties under our state constitution.
PennsWoodsTrust is dedicated to helping Pennsylvanians understand their constitutional rights and ensuring our public natural resource trust assets are conserved and maintained now and in the future.
Learn about our public natural resources trust at these links:
Our Constitutional Environmental Rights
Our Public Natural Resources
Conserving and Maintain Our Trust Assets
Our Government Trustees’ Role
Our Role as Trust Beneficiaries
Learn more about our constitutional trust through PennsWoodsTrust posts:
Actions – information on actions our state and local government officials take that affect our public natural resources
Benefits – information on our public natural resource trust assets and their benefits to us
Projects – information on projects underway to protect and expand our public natural resource trust assets
Reflections – thoughts on ways to ensure our state and local government trustees protect our public natural resource trust assets