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25 Apr 2020
A Message for Pennsylvanians
CBF's new Pennsylvania Executive Director, Shannon Gority, knows the importance of clean rivers and streams to Pennsylvanians.
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16 Apr 2020
Tree Nurseries: An Essential Bay Business
In these uncertain times, Pennsylvania nursery growers provide essential crops for clean water. As life challenges in the days of COVID-19 continue, so does the work of adding trees and shrubs to Penn's Woods that will clean and protect Pennsylvania waters. The clean water work does not stop.
Topics: Restoration
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10 Jan 2020
Pennsylvania Has Been ‘Growing Greener’ for 20 Years
Twenty years after Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge signed a bill establishing Growing Greener at $650 million over five years, the Commonwealth struggles today to make the adequate investments necessary to clean and protect its waters.
Topics: Agriculture, Conservation, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, Restoration, Stormwater Runoff in Pennsylvania, The Susquehanna River, Water Quality
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07 Jan 2020
Floods and Fees: How a Pennsylvania Town Found a Fix for Stormwater
By re-envisioning stormwater management as a service, Derry Township energized efforts to proactively manage, repair, and upgrade aging infrastructure, reduce chronic flooding, meet the increasing regulatory requirements of its MS4 stormwater permit, and clean up its streams.
Topics: Runoff Pollution, Stormwater Runoff in Pennsylvania, Water Quality
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22 Nov 2019
Those Who Farm Deserve Thanks and Support
As we give thanks this season, let’s remember the important sacrifices our farmers and watermen make. This Thanksgiving, they are providing the plentiful food we’ll all enjoy.
Topics: Runoff Pollution
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08 Nov 2019
PA Legislators Need to Put the Money Where the Boots Are—on Farms
The boots on the ground—the farmers and the conservation community—are leading the way. It’s time state legislators invest in them.
Topics: Agriculture, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, The Susquehanna River, Water Quality
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05 Nov 2019
Celebrating Senator Yaw and the Eastern Hellbender Salamander
CBF student leaders went to Williamsport to celebrate the salamander that is Pennsylvania’s new official state amphibian and to salute the state senator whose support was key to making it happen.
Topics: Community, Hellbender Campaign
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30 Oct 2019
This Month in the Watershed: A Climate for Change
Climate change might be a global problem, but we are feeling the impacts here at home.
Topics: Advocacy, Algal Blooms, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Conowingo Dam and
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30 Oct 2019
Bringing the Farm to Life
Planting trees is part of treating the land—and cattle—right at Drager Farms in Lancaster County.
Topics: Agriculture, Climate Change, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Trees
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03 Oct 2019
Pennsylvania Farmers Experience the Bay Their Efforts Can Save
Pennsylvania farmers recently spent a weekend on the Chesapeake Bay to see and feel the effects of their clean water efforts are having downstream.
Topics: Agriculture, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, The Susquehanna River, 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
