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Gratitude Initiative: 30+ Events for 30 Years of Restoration Work Thirty years ago, with the signing of the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement, the Bay restoration effort began to take shape as a watershed-wide effort. Over these last three decades the movement to save the Bay took shape as we have worked to understand it, conserve …
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Gathered in a large event hall at Dutch’s Daughter restaurant in Frederick, MD, surrounded by plush carpeting, tapestries on the walls, and a projector screen pulled down over ornately carved wood fireplace, it seems an odd space to host a workshop for farmers on the value of streamside forest buffers. But local University of Maryland …
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is helping the Maryland Forestry Board Foundation to seek qualified tree planting and forest management services for its Healthy Forests, Healthy Waters Initiative. The Initiative will implement riparian forest buffers, upland tree plantings and road erosion control projects that are part of private landowner forest management plans. The implementation of …
Governor Martin O’Malley today signed into law first-of-its-kind legislation that amends Maryland’s forest conservation policy to maintain the State’s current 40 percent tree canopy – a no-net-loss. Read more about the legislation on the Maryland DNR website: Governor O’Malley Signs Landmark Forest Legislation.
If you keep manure-producing animals, even one horse in your backyard, you are required to write a manure management plan in Pennsylvania. But that doesn’t mean it has to be a difficult task. It does mean that organizations, like the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, State Conservation Districts and Penn State Extension Offices have a …
