Are you passionate about ensuring the success of young tree plantings? The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is hosting 3 open volunteer days over the summer where you can come learn about young tree planting tending and get hands on experience.

Tasks will include marking dead trees, fixing tree shelters, pulling invasives, and removing bird nets.

The programs will be held--

-- June 23: Manheim, Lancaster County - Click Here to register

-- July 14: Wellsville, York County - Click Here to register

-- August 4: Christiana, Lancaster County - Click Here to register

Woodland Stewardship Network Conference

Join us for a 2-hour webinar to learn about Woodland Stewardship Networks, an approach to advancing forest stewardship and active management among private forest landowners by focusing outreach and assistance to “Networks” of neighboring properties.

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay piloted the approach in 2017 and has since assisted scores of landowners in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia in getting updated forest management plans and beginning active stewardship on thousands of acres of woodland.

Woodland Stewardship Networks have proven to be an effective and efficient way of reaching private forest landowners and helping them towards forest stewardship, no matter their property size.

The webinar will include case studies and panels from consulting foresters and governmental agency partners who have worked with the program.

Click Here to register and for more information.  The program will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

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Other Forests For The Bay Articles

-- How The US Forest Service Changed The Way We Think About Trees In The Chesapeake Bay

-- Penn State Extension/USGS Discuss Impacts Of Deer On Forests - Video

-- Penn State Deer-Forest Study Blog

(Reprinted from June Forests for the Bay newsletter.  Click Here to sign up for your own copy.)

Related Articles - Watersheds:

-- DCNR Celebrates Susquehanna River North Branch As 2023 River Of The Year  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Should New Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals Have A Greater Dose Of Reality?

-- University Of Maryland Center For Environmental Science Report Finds Chesapeake Bay Health Showing Significant Improvement, New Environmental Justice Index Shows Strong Disparities

-- Penn State's 2023 Ag Progress Days On Tap For August 8-10 In Centre County  [PaEN]

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Assess Abandoned Mine Pollution In Moshannon Creek Watershed With DEP Grant  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Learn How To Protect Your Watershed By Attending 3 Upcoming Community Science Webinars Starting June 7  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Center For Ag Conservation Training, Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals Host 3-Part Riparian Buffers On Ag Lands Training Starting June 23  [PaEN]

-- Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay Seeking Volunteers For 3 Riparian Buffer Tree Maintenance/ Education Days In PA; Woodland Stewardship Network Conference July 13  [PaEN]

-- Extended: Appalachian Regional Independent Power Producers Accepting Mine Reclamation Grant Applications Thru June 30

-- Water Resources Association Of The Delaware River Basin Accepting 2023 Award Nominations  [PaEN]

-- Now On Demand: 2023 Watershed Congress Along The Schuylkill River Now Available  [PaEN]

[Posted: June 7, 2023]

6/12/2023