Restoration

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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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Improving a Nature Preserve for Clean Water

The Alliance worked with JBWS staff to reforest 36 acres of former agricultural fields and plant meadow on an additional 17.5 acres. By establishing new forests and a meadow, the project provides a myriad of benefits to the park, but also, to water quality.

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Reduce Your Stormwater: Urban Trees

Urban trees provide many benefits to our communities. Find all the urban trees resources you need here, including a video about to plant a tree and calculate your Tree Equity Score.

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Another Milestone for Chesapeake Forests

The Healthy Forests Healthy Waters program (HFHW) has planted its 2,000th acre of forest in Maryland! Over 389 projects have been completed under the program since its founding in 2015.

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Pass the Golden Shovel for this Year’s Tree Planting Relay

Join the Alliance as we host back-to-back tree plantings in a relay-style event to get thousands of trees in the ground in just one day!

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Branching out with a Campus Tree Canopy Assessment

Environmental Projects Intern, Alex DuBuclet, from Bowie State University, has concluded another semester with the Alliance! Join us, as Alex tells us about their Capstone Project from this semester.

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The Alliance Plants Its 1,000th Acre of Forest Buffer in Pennsylvania!

The Alliance’s PA Riparian Forest Buffer Project planted its 1,000th acre! Join us as we reflect on the last six years of upstream work for clean water and healthy forests.

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Happy Graduation to a Riparian Rangers Buffer

It was recently graduation day in Manheim, and students are eager to embark on the next phase of their lives. Downstream, a different graduation is going on for two and a quarter acres of trees.

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70,000 Native Trees and Shrubs for Big Elk Creek State Park

The Alliance’s largest-ever tree planting is complete; Big Elk Creek State Park in Chester County, Pennsylvania now has 270 acres of new forest, including over 70,000 native tree and shrub seedlings!

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Reforestation Opportunity Available for Maryland Landowners

The Healthy Forests Healthy Waters (HFHW) program offers landowners in Maryland a cost-free opportunity to establish new woodland cover on their property.

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