Forests

PWREN Program supports stewardship of family-owned forests

The Pennsylvania Woodland Resilience Enhancement Network program reimburses landowners between 80-100% of the total cost of forest management practices, up to $25,000, for the implementation of activities including invasive plant control, forest stand improvement projects, tree planting, and herbaceous cover seeding.

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Navigating On-farm Solutions on a Unique Landscape

Karst topography is known for its sinkholes, caverns, and disappearing streams, which form when slightly acidic water dissolves alkaline bedrock like limestone.

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Wandering Delmarva’s Waterways: Protecting Local Waterways through Collaboration and Informed Decision-Making

Across Delmarva, land use decisions shape water quality, economic development, and community resilience. This spring’s Wandering Waterways tour brought together 31 local leaders from Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.

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What’s Poppin’? Beech Leaf disease

Over the past decade, another disease has been on the rise in a prominent tree species in Northeast forests – American beech. The disease? Beech leaf disease.

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July: El sol

It’s hot out there in the watershed this time of year. Whether you’re experiencing the suffocating urban heat island effect in Washington D.C., Richmond, VA, and Lancaster, PA…or the open fields of central Maryland, the sun is impacting you.

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What’s Poppin’? Phenological Fun: A Drink from the Clouds (No Rain Required)

Have you ever noticed wet leaves when you go outside in the morning even when without rain in the forecast? It is not dew. This is Fog Drip.

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“That’s a wrap!” She said bittersweetly…

In 2024, the Alliance began contributing to a blooming workforce development program with the Loysville Youth Development Center (LYDC) in central Pennsylvania. Two years later, Alliance and LYDC staff reflect on the program as it comes to a close.

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Lancaster Park Receives Trees, Meadow, and More

Noel Dorwart Park was predominantly a parking lot and a large lawn space before the project began. With help from the Alliance’s Forests Team and dedicated volunteers, the park is receiving shade trees, stormwater practices, and a native meadow.

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Baltimore Oriole: A Regional Spring Superstar

The Baltimore oriole is a dazzling jewel of Maryland’s forests and woodlands, a vibrant songbird whose presence signals the arrival of spring and the renewal of life in our trees.

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Improving the Health and Resilience of Our Forests

The Pennsylvania Woodland Resilience Enhancement Network (PWREN) program cost-shares forest practice-plan writing and the implementation of management practices meant to improve the health, resilience, and value of forest land.

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