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Environmental Heritage Summit
Monday, 22 December 2008 19:37
The Pennsylvania Heritage Society and The State Museum of Pennsylvania hosted an Environmental Heritage Summit on Saturday, October 11, 2008 in Harrisburg,
to convene several environmental historians and the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), the PA Department of Environmental Protection, and representatives from several Pennsylvania-based science centers. The summit explored defining a broad interpretive framework for environmental history initiatives under consideration at The State Museum and served to cultivate relationships with practitioners around the Commonwealth involved in environmental history and education. The consulting environmental historians were Dr Joel Tarr and Dr. Vagel Keller, Carnegie Mellon University; Dr. Ellen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College; Dr. James Grace, DCNR, and Dr. Jeffrey Stine, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. The event was sponsored in part by the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals.