The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is inviting public feedback on how it is implementing its Riparian Buffer Grant Program.   The deadline for responses is September 30.

Between 2016 and 2020, DCNR awarded over $6.8 million through nearly 60 grants to local partners, resulting in approximately 1,270 acres of forest buffers planted.

Your feedback to help DCNR determine opportunities to improve and streamline this grant program to be even more successful at getting buffers installed across the landscape as simply and cost-effectively as possible.

Click Here to take the survey.

Visit DCNR's Riparian Buffer webpage for more information on the riparian buffer program.

October Is Buffer Month!

Penn State Extension is joining the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, who declared October as Riparian Buffer Month, as an opportunity to build awareness and familiarity of forested riparian buffers while sharing the applicability of these sustainable practices in a variety of settings.  Read more here.

PA Chesapeake Bay Plan

For more information on Pennsylvania’s plan, visit DEP’s Chesapeake Bay Office webpage.

How Clean Is Your Stream?

DEP’s Interactive Report Viewer allows you to zoom in on your own stream or watershed to find out how clean your stream is or if it has impaired water quality using the latest information in the draft 2020 Water Quality Report.

(Reprinted from the latest DEP Healthy Waters newsletter.  Click Here to sign up for your own copy.)

Related Articles:

-- Penn State Extension: Help Celebrate Riparian Buffer Month In October!

-- DEP’s September Health Waters Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan Update 

[Posted: September 27, 2021]

10/4/2021