The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Environmental Rights Amendment with 50 stories featuring individuals, projects, ideas, places, and partnerships that represent five decades of restored lands and waters of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Nancy Baker is a forest ecologist, forestland property owner, and leader of “Women and Their Woods.”

Holly May is a DCNR service forester for Jefferson, Clarion, and Armstrong counties, a former Alliance employee, as well as a forestland property owner.

Click Here to listen Nancy and Holly share their stories and passion for forestry work and impart some insight into their experience as women in their careers, as well as their hopes for the future of women in forestry.

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(Reprinted from the March 17 DCNR Resource newsletter.  Click Here to sign up for your own copy.)

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-- -- March 17 DCNR Resource Newsletter

[Posted: March 18, 2021]

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