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18 May 2018
This Week in the Watershed: A Little Spark
When Robert Dean was planning the first Clean the Bay Day 29 years ago, his greatest worry was getting enough volunteers to leave the comfort of their homes on a Saturday morning to get dirty and tired picking up trash. But he underestimated the love Virginians have for their waterways.
Topics: Atlantic Coast Natural Gas Pipeline, Community, Conservation, Runoff Pollution, Restoration, Water Quality, What We Have to Lose
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16 May 2018
Pennsylvania's Ambitious Antidote for Polluted Streams: 10 Million Trees
Larry Herr's contribution is modest: 50 to 75 new young trees, a biological buffer for Silver Creek, which babbles through 76 rolling acres of his farm in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Trees
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11 May 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Threats and Resilience
Like the victim of Chinese water torture, the Chesapeake Bay seems afflicted by a constant stream of assaults, most of them man-made.
Topics: Advocacy, Agriculture, Algal Blooms, Atlantic Coast Natural Gas Pipeline, Blue Crabs, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Conservation, Habitat Loss, Runoff Pollution, Restoration, Water Quality, What We Have to Lose
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10 May 2018
Centre County 7th-Graders Learn About Water Quality in Their Own Backyards and the Bay
It was a wet and wild day of outdoor learning at Fox Gap Rod & Gun Club in Centre County, 30 miles east of State College.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Forest Loss, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership
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09 May 2018
This Month on the Bay: A Mahogany Tide in May
Mahogany tides are natural occurrences, but a bloom as widespread and deep as the one that came this week is a serious reminder of how much we have overfertilized our waters with nitrogen and phosphorus.
Topics: About the Bay, Algal Blooms, Bay Grasses, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Dead Zones, Eastern Oysters, Fisheries, Water Quality
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04 May 2018
This Week in the Watershed: A Big Dam Problem
It's not often you can see water pollution from space. But a well-known image following Tropical Storm Lee in 2011 has a long, complicated story to tell.
Topics: Advocacy, Conowingo Dam and
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01 May 2018
A Powerful New Restoration Tool for the Bay
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–a key federal partner in the Chesapeake Bay Program–recently gave Capitol Hill a sneak peek at a unique and powerful new federal restoration tool that will be unveiled on May 31: the Chesapeake Bay Comprehensive Plan.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Eastern Oysters, Restoration, Water Quality
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27 Apr 2018
This Week in the Watershed: 10 Million Keystone Trees
Pennsylvania's waters might not contain blue crabs, oysters, or other iconic Chesapeake Bay critters, but with more than 50 percent of the Bay's freshwater flows coming from the Susquehanna River, the Keystone State determines the health of the Chesapeake.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Community, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Restoration, Trees, Water Quality
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24 Apr 2018
Announcing the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership
This morning, a coalition of national, state, and local partners announced one of Pennsylvania's most ambitious, collaborative, and challenging efforts to restore and protect its rivers and streams—the planting of 10 million trees by the end of 2025.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Forest Loss, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership
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20 Apr 2018
This Week in the Watershed: The Biggest Ever
A recently released study found that not only are Bay grasses flourishing, but the comeback of grasses is one of the few places on Earth where ecological improvements are a direct result of human efforts to reduce pollution.
Topics: Bay Grasses, Blue Crabs, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Restoration, Water Quality
What's Up in Pennsylvania
State and federal conservation programs provide critical funding and support to farmers who want to incorporate best management practices such as contour stripcropping (shown here), which keep valuable nutrients on farms and out of local streams and the Bay.
Tim McCabe/NRCS
