Robert Maiden, Executive Director of the PA Association of Conservation Districts, will be the guest speaker at the March 18 Environmental Issues Forum hosted by the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee.

Maiden will describe the mission and operations of PACD, whose 66 conservation districts provide a variety of natural resource management and preservation services to the areas they support.

One program the association will focus on is the Pennsylvania Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program. The program funds and promotes environmentally and economically sound maintenance practices on Pennsylvania's 20,000+ miles of public unpaved roads. PACD will describe how the program works, and the important role it fills in state government.

The Forum will begin at noon in Room 8E-B of the Capitol Building East Wing.

Sen. Scott Hutchinson (R-Venango) serves as Chair of the Committee.

3/18/2013