This article appeared first in the latest Penn’s Woods newsletter from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA--
The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership sees 2021 as a year of exponential growth.
“We have locked in contracts to significantly expand tree production for 2021 and 2022,” Partnership Manager Brenda Sieglitz said.
“We are working diligently with our 167 partners to find homes for the 210,000 trees in 2021 (over 144,500 in the Spring) and 500,000 trees in 2022.
“We are engaging agriculture landowners in south-central Pennsylvania who are able to convert land from crops and agriculture to tree plantings along riparian areas,” Sieglitz added. “We need our partners’ help in finding more land for trees for this year and beyond.”
Though partners are glad to bid farewell to 2020, conservation calluses had silver linings during a COVID-19 year.
“One of our biggest accomplishments of 2020 was to put together a joint professional contract for 50 acres of riparian buffer plantings that would have otherwise been delayed until volunteer help could be utilized,” Sarah Xenophon of the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center wrote in the new partnership blog in January.
“This not only alleviated our volunteer restrictions, but also provided us an opportunity to try a new logistical management plan and support conservation contractors who truly needed the work in the fall.
“It’s obvious that these special circumstances pushed us to think above our regular timelines and outside of our regular avenues of operation, truly fast-tracking innovation,” Xenophon added.
The Lebanon Valley Conservancy (TLVC) knows that partnership and preservation can change the landscape.
“The partnership has evolved beyond planting trees and has rooted relationships in our community,” TLVC Executive Director Laurie Crawford wrote in the partnership blog for February.
“Partnering with our easement owners helps to protect our investment and enhance the conservation values of the properties,” Crawford continued.
“As we moved to years two and three with the partnership, I noticed new landowners, with hundreds of acres of valuable lands with forest, streams, and open space, were interested in planting trees,” Crawford said.
“Following up with them after the plantings gave us an opportunity to talk about easements and protection of the valuable ecological treasures on their properties.”
To learn more, visit the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership website.
Other Articles
Other features in the Penn’s Waters included--
-- PA’s Proposed Budget Does Little For Chronic Underfunding For Clean Water
-- Revived Farm Conservation Cost-Share Bill Could Highlight PA’s Legislature’s Session
-- Students Continue To Learn Outside During The Pandemic Thru CBF’s OWL Online
-- CBF’s State Of The Bay Report Score Dropped, There’s Still Hope
-- Growing Greener Grants Are A Win-Win For Local Economies, Environment
-- From The Desk Of Shallon Gority, PA CBF Director
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[Posted: March 5, 2021] PA Environment Digest
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