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26 Oct 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Your Air at Risk
Most living creatures, whether they walk, swim, or crawl, are harmed by poor air quality. And if the EPA rolls back two critical Clean Air Act initiatives, our climate, health, and water quality could suffer.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Climate Change, Politics
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24 Oct 2018
Ten Million New Trees Can Stem the Tide of Rushing Waters
One of the most ambitious and challenging efforts to reduce the pollutant payload that flows into the Susquehanna, other Commonwealth waterways, and down to the Chesapeake Bay has taken root—the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership.
Topics: Conservation, Forest Loss, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, The Susquehanna River, Water Quality
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19 Oct 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Dropping Temps, Changing Bay
Autumn is officially here, as temperatures have plummeted this past week. And the Bay and its rivers and streams are reacting to the dramatic shift.
Topics: Fisheries, Fishing, Water Quality
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17 Oct 2018
CBF’s Rain Garden Maintenance Specialist Brings Environmental Justice to a Harrisburg Neighborhood
Garden mud, rain, and rocks were Rafiyqa Muhammad's playground growing up in a south-Harrisburg, PA neighborhood. Today, she's back in that neighborhood, empowering the community through rain gardens and green infrastructure.
Topics: Community, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, Restoration
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12 Oct 2018
This Week in the Watershed: An Oyster Revival
Before the Chesapeake was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1608, the Bay was known for its oysters. But the magnitude of the Bay's oyster population has dropped precipitously since the days when Smith wrote that oysters "lay thick as stones."
Topics: Community, Conservation, Eastern Oysters, Fishing, Restoration, Water Quality
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05 Oct 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Resisting Rollbacks
It was less than a generation ago that America was confronted with the consequences of the degradation of the environment.
Topics: Politics, Restoration, Water Quality
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03 Oct 2018
Quality Water, Soil, and Sales on the Menu at Field Day on Misty Mountain Farm
At Pennsylvania's Misty Mountain Farm, riparian forest buffers, no-till, and cover crop farming techniques improve soil and water quality, leading to success for business and the Bay.
Topics: Agriculture, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Forest Loss, Habitat Loss, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Runoff Pollution, The Susquehanna River, Trees, Water Quality
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28 Sep 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Living with a Smoker
Higher rates of asthma, increased chances of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis. These are just a few of the health impacts caused by the long-term breathing of fine particulate matter.
Topics: Air Pollution, Restoration, Water Quality
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21 Sep 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Breathe Easy?
Most understand that how we treat the land has a direct correlation to the health of our waterways. But often overlooked is the major impact air pollution has on water quality.
Topics: Air Pollution, Restoration, Water Quality
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20 Sep 2018
Flood of 10 Million Trees Could Help Offset Impact of Future PA Deluges
Veteran newspaper photographer John Pavoncello has been eye-to-eye with all kinds of human drama.
Topics: Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Runoff Pollution, Restoration, The Susquehanna River, Trees, 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
