The 16th Annual Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forum will be held November 1-5 online with in-person networking.  The theme of this year’s Forum is-- The Future is Now: Getting to (and Moving Beyond) 2025.

This watershed-wide event reaches over 400 restoration and protection practitioners to inspire and empower local action towards clean water.

The forum shares successful tools and techniques, offers lessons and learnings from on-the-ground work, builds capacities of local organizations, fosters partnerships and networking, educates on new initiatives and emerging practices, and celebrates successes.

Register now to ensure a spot on the related outdoor field trips!

A limited number of scholarships will be available for Forum Registration.

For all the details, visit the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forum website.

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:

-- Call For Abstracts: Bucknell University’s 16th River Symposium Nov. 5-6

-- 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