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Agriculture Uncovered: Explore Pennsylvania Ag

Pennsylvania offers abundant opportunities for agriculture conservation; it’s home to over 49,000 farms, covering 7 million acres. Running through these acres is an abundant network of waterways that ultimately feed into the Chesapeake Bay. PA has about 85,500 miles of rivers and streams which supply over 2,000,000 acres of lakes, bays, and wetlands.

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Request for Bids: Blackwell Park Nature Playground Landscaping

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is seeking proposals for a professional landscaper or contractor to collaborate with the Alliance and its partners to install a dry stream bed and to plant conservation landscaping and native trees at a nature playground at Blackwell Park in Richmond, VA.

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Return to Uhler: Reflections & Takeaways

Dive into the Forests Team’s reflections and takeaways as they revisit Uhler Tract.

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What’s Poppin’? Phenological Fun: Pitcher Plant

The purple pitcher plant is a carnivorous forb native to bogs, fens, marshes, wetlands and some pineland forests of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Press Release: Giant Awards $65,000 for Sustainable Dairy Practices in Chesapeake Bay

In Celebration of June Dairy Month, Giant Food recently awarded more than $65,000 to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) to implement sustainability practices on local dairy farms in the Chesapeake Bay.

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RFP Seeking Farmers and TA Businesses to Provide Soil Health Technical Assistance – Lancaster County, PA

The Alliance is leading a project in Lancaster County, PA to address important obstacles to agricultural soil health practice adoption.

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RFP Seeking Businesses and Farmers to Provide Rental Soil Health Equipment – Lancaster County, PA

The Alliance is leading a project in Lancaster County, PA to address important obstacles to agricultural soil health practice adoption. Part of the program will provide cost-share for farmers to rent equipment needed for soil health practices.

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New Stakeholders’ Advisory Committee Chair shares why people are the most important part of environmental restoration

Executive director of Defensores de la Cuenca, Abel Olivo, is the new chair of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Stakeholders’ Advisory Committee, and dedicated to engaging Spanish-speaking communities with the environment.

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Bittersweet Spring: Native Vines and Vibrant Birds of the Chesapeake Bay

American bittersweet is a resilient, climbing native vine that’s more than just a pretty face in the spring woods.

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Setophaga pensylvanica: The ‘Pennsylvania Moth Eater’

The chestnut-sided warbler is a diminutive but beautiful neotropical migrant songbird that breeds throughout the forests of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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