The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Penn State Extension's Lower Susquehanna Initiative are inviting volunteers to help plant trees in seven stream buffer projects over the next few weeks.

The projects include:

-- March 21: Native Tree Live Stake Harvest and Potting, Elizabethtown;

-- March 23: Little Conewago Creek Live Stake Planting Workday, Palmyra;

-- April 6: Old Hershey Road Riparian Buffer Planting, Hershey;

-- April 11: Wenger Farm, Spring Buffer Maintenance Day, Elizabethtown;

-- April 13: Conewago Earth Day Celebration and Planting at Aberdeen Mills;

-- April 27: Hershey Meadows Spring Buffer Maintenance,  Elizabethtown; and

-- May 4: Mill Creek Riparian Buffer Planting, New Holland.

Trees are one of the best "natural tools" we have to help clean up our rivers and streams. They improve habitat, keep pollutants out of creeks, increase a stream's ability to purify water, and provide shade and cooler water temperatures critical for aquatic life.

Click Here to sign up for one or all seven.

3/18/2013