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Reese Goodlin, Chesapeake Bay Foundation Bringing Watershed Resiliency Program To Adams, York Counties

By B.J. Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA

Reese Goodlin joined the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) this summer, in an effort to expand CBF’s work with landowners, organizations and partners in Adams and York counties to establish restoration projects and promote available funding to reduce polluted runoff into local waters.

Goodlin’s work is part of CBF’s Watershed Resiliency Program in Pennsylvania.

“We recognize that our efforts will not return the Bay to pre-Colonial, pre-development abundance,” said Kristen Heberlig, Resiliency Program Manager in Pennsylvania. “Our approach is to balance economic viability with environmental sustainability by building strong partnerships and implementing watershed restoration projects that improve the watershed’s resilience to both natural and human disturbances.”

As Pennsylvania Watershed Resiliency Field Specialist, Goodlin will be conducting landowner outreach, partnering with agencies and other organizations to connect landowners with Resiliency Program funding, and supporting the implementation of priority strategies, like riparian buffers, that reduce polluted runoff.

He will also focus on sustainable farming practices.

“I am looking forward to meeting and working with lots of new people, gaining new skills and knowledge, and being able to share what I learn and already know to improve the world around me,” Goodlin said.

Goodlin, 23, hails from Purcellville, VA. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Environmental Studies from Ursinus College, 25 miles west of Philadelphia, with the goal of applying himself to sustainability and restoration.

While at Ursinus, he worked with the campus farm and the food forest, which is an ecological restoration and riparian forest buffer focused on native plants and alternative agriculture.

After graduation, he accepted a position as the Sustainability Solutions Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship staff member at Ursinus which included stewardship activities and expansion projects.

Goodlin traveled to Oklahoma to represent Ursinus College and its Food Forest to the Delaware Tribe of Indians. The trip was part of an effort to connect the Tribe with their traditional homeland and to exchange ideas, information, and materials.

“Reese brings a wealth of knowledge, training, and enthusiasm to the Resiliency Program,” CBF Pennsylvania Executive Director Julia Krall said. “We look forward to deepening our relationships with partners and landowners in Adams and York counties to address agricultural runoff and further the Commonwealth’s progress in meeting pollution reduction goals.”

For more on Chesapeake Bay-related issues in Pennsylvania, visit the Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA webpage. Click Here to sign up for Pennsylvania updates (bottom of left column). Click Here to support their work.

Also visit the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership to learn how you can help clean water grow on trees.

CBF has over 275,000 members in Bay Watershed.

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