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Front Page: Your Weekly News & Updates
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| Armstrong's mobile exhibit coming to July conference, mini-grant outcomes, news from Susquehanna and Cumberland Counties, free pasture walk, and lakes appreciation month. |
Explore Armstrong Conservation District's Mobile Exhibit at the July Conference
Armstrong Conservation District's H2Oh! on the GO! mobile exhibit will be parked at the NACD Northeast Regional Meeting & PACD/SCC Joint Annual Conference from July 15-18, 2018. The Armstrong Conservation District is generously making this interactive, educational, traveling exhibit available for our attendees to explore during the conference.
The conference is taking place at the DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Hotel, Lancaster, PA. Click here to register or for more information.
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Over 5,000 Adults Reached via 2017-18 Nonpoint Source Mini-Grants
In the 2017-18 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant round, 37 projects were completed by 30 conservation districts, reaching over 5,000 adults. Click here to see the outcomes and here to see a map of projects completed.
Reminder: PACD is currently accepting applications for a second round of the 2018-19 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant Program for Conservation Districts. Click here for more information:
https://pacd.org/?page_id=16996
. The deadline to apply is June 28, 2018.
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Financial and other support for the NPS Mini-grant Program is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Susquehanna County Conservation District Hosts Legislative Breakfast
Submitted by Jim Garner, District Manager, Susquehanna County Conservation District
Recently the Susquehanna County Conservation District (SCCD) held its 2018 Legislative Breakfast at the Montrose Club. The legislators attending spent time discussing many current topics with directors and staff over breakfast. District Manager Jim Garner gave a presentation highlighting conservation district programs and related funding. Board Chairman Ray Warriner provided closing remarks and thanked our legislators for all of their support.
Photo caption (left to right): SCCD Board Chairman Ray Warriner, SCCD Manager Jim Garner, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Gregg Hostetter, Tom Yoniski from Senator Lisa Baker's office, Representative Tina Pickett, Representative Jonathan Fritz, SCCD Associate Director Lillian Theophanis, SCCD Director Bill Bayne, and SCCD Director Curt Hepler. Photo provided by SCCD.
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Cumberland County Conservation District Visits Legislators
Cumberland County Conservation District Manager Carl Goshorn visited five legislators at their home offices over the last two weeks.
Photo caption: Cumberland County Conservation District Farmer Director Mike Berkheimer, State Representative Dawn Keefer, and Carl Goshorn.
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Free Pasture Walk at Air Hills Acres
The Grazing Lands Coalition invites you to join them for a day of lively discussion and networking. Air Hill Acres Farm is a grass-based farm in Franklin County raising milking cows, beef, pork, and chickens. Justin Geisinger has an innovative philosophy on managing his pastures and stream area. Justin and family also won the Franklin County Conservation District's Farmer of the Year Award in 2017.
At 10:00 a.m. Titus Martin with Franklin County Graziers will lead a pasture walk and grazing discussion.. This will be followed by the Grazing Lands Coalition meeting, which all are welcome to attend.
Photo caption: Photo from event registration webpage.
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July is Lakes Appreciation Month! Participate in the 2018 Secchi Dip-In
What is the Secchi Dip-In? The Secchi Dip-In is an annual event in July where volunteer monitors across North America take to their local lakes and reservoirs to measure water transparency using Secchi disks and other turbidity instruments, as well taking measurements of water temperature and pH. The data collected are used to assess trends in transparency of waterbodies in North America.
Volunteers have been submitting information during the annual Dip-In snapshot since 1994. Please join them in this international effort to track changes in water quality! The Secchi Dip-In is part of Lakes Appreciation Month, when we celebrate our lakes throughout the month of July each year.
Click here for more information.
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