{"id":659,"date":"2013-04-12T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2013-04-13T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:59:51","slug":"county-land-steward-earns-state-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"County land steward earns state award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Hausmann credited with helping to preserve tens of thousands of acres<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Peter Hausmann was recognized by the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association for decades of land preservation.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association (PALTA) honored Chester County land preservationist Peter Hausmann with its Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award last week.<\/p>\n

Hausmann has served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Natural Lands Trust for the past 13 years. During his tenure as chairman, the regional non-profit organization has preserved more than 35,000 acres of open space, the single most productive period in the organization\u2019s 60-year history, according to a news release from the trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeter Hausmann isn\u2019t a household name. But it should be for those in metropolitan Philadelphia,\u201d especially Chester County, said Andy Loza, executive director of PALTA. \u201cIn the coming decades, when residents and visitors enjoy the county\u2019s parks and protected open spaces, there\u2019s a big chance that they owe their joy in part to the work of Peter Hausmann.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hausmann was also a founding trustee of the Willistown Conservation Trust and of a non-profit organization that leveraged his real estate expertise to purchase and resell more than $80 million of land to conservation buyers in the Willistown area, the release said.<\/p>\n

The award, an honor given to only nine other individuals, was given to Hausmann for his decades of leadership and dedication in conserving special places and landscapes. It was presented in conjunction with the 11th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference held in State College, the release said.<\/p>\n

In 1989, Hausmann helped to found and chaired Save Open Space, a citizens\u2019 group that successfully shepherded Chester County\u2019s pioneering open space bond issue. He then helped to establish the open space program that became the model for other county initiatives around the region. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush awarded Hausmann the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Award in recognition of his work on the county program, the release said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeter\u2019s unique vision of land preservation, not just for aesthetic and scientific and cultural reasons, but equally for economic development reasons, has helped to invigorate the land trust movement, both regionally in southeastern Pennsylvania and nationally,\u201d said Jack Terrill, vice-chair of Natural Lands Trust\u2019s Board of Trustees. \u201cWe have been blessed with Peter\u2019s energy and drive and are so pleased that he is receiving the Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Hausmann credited with helping to preserve tens of thousands of acres The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association (PALTA) honored Chester County land preservationist Peter Hausmann with its Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award last week. Hausmann has served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Natural Lands Trust for the past 13 years. During his tenure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[444,474,587,676],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-natural-lands-trust","tag-peter-hausmann","tag-the-pennsylvania-land-trust-association","tag-willistown-conservation-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}