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Conservation Districts in the News
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Upcoming Events
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Intro to Conservation Planning
March 4-6, 2014
Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey, Grantville, PA
Chesapeake Bay Program Conservation District and PA Agency Staff Meeting
March 10 (snow date March 13)
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
PACD South Central Region Meeting
March 12, 2014
Cumberland County Conservation District, Carlisle, PA
Basic/Refresher Erosion & Sediment Control Technical Training
March 24-27, 2014
Keystone Conference Center, Fort Indiantown Gap, Annville PA
Agricultural Conservation Technical Training - Basic Level
March 31-April 4, 2014
Ft. Indiantown Gap, Annville, PA (Lebanon County)
Advanced/Topic-Based Erosion & Sediment Control Technical Training
April 1-3, 2014
Farm & Home Center, Lancaster PA
PACD North Central Region Meeting
April 2, 2014
Clinton County Conservation District, Mill Hall, PA
PACD South East Region Meeting
April 3, 2014
Location: TBA
PACD North East Region Meeting
April 4, 2014
DEP Northeast Regional Office, Wilkes-Barre, PA
PACD North West Region Meeting
April 10, 2014
Forest County Conservation District, Tionesta, PA
PACD South West Region Meeting
April 11, 2014
Westmoreland Conservation District, Greensburg, PA
Agricultural Conservation Technical Training - Level II
April 28-May 2, 2014
Ft. Indiantown Gap, Annville, PA (Lebanon County)
PACD/SCC Joint Annual Conference
July 9-10, 2014
Blair County Convention Center, Altoona, PA
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Maiden Speaks about Pennsylvania Budget on Comcast Newsmakers
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On February 18, 2014, PACD Executive Director Robert Maiden recorded a piece for Comcast Newsmakers in Harrisburg. The focus of the four-and-one-half minute piece was the positive impact the Pennsylvania budget will have on conservation districts. Click here to watch the segment.
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Last Call for Clean Water Farm Award Nominations
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 Submit your nomination for the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Farm Award! Each district that submits a completed nomination will be entered into a drawing to win a $100 pizza party for their office!
Here is the link to submit an application for the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Farm Award.
Nominations are due to the PACD office no later than February 28.
The Clean Water Farm Award Program is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chesapeake Bay Education Office (administered by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.).
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Free Webinar Cover Crop Series
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 NACD is pleased to be a sponsoring partner of a "Cover Crops" webinar series hosted by the American Society of Agronomy (ASA). Because NACD is a sponsor, conservation district representatives are invited to participate in the webinar series free of charge.
Improving soil health not only cleans up water quality and reduces soil loss, but also provides a better environment for cash crops to succeed. This ASA webinar series will focus on cover crops and their implications on soil health, maximizing yields, livestock considerations, and crop management
Planned webinar dates are March 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2014. For more information and to register, click here.
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Clean Water, Healthy Lands Workshop
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 Attention farmers, landowners, and conservation professionals! You are invited to attend the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Clean Water, Healthy Lands workshop on Friday, March 14, 2014. Pesticide and conservation planning credits will be offered for this workshop which will focus on stream ecology, water quality, agricultural regulations and pesticide use and management. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Bernard Sweeney, Director of Stroud Water Research Center. Dr. Sweeney will present a very informative, scientifically proven and logical explanation of why it is best to have forests growing along our streams.
Other speakers will discuss the following topics: manure management, agricultural regulations, controlling invasive plants in forested buffers, effects of pesticides in the environment, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Buffer Bonus Program. In addition, awards will be presented to local conservation agencies for their success with forested buffers.
Don't miss this great opportunity to learn about how your land interacts with your local streams. Farmers and others will obtain a wealth of useful information from this workshop.
Clean Water, Healthy Lands will be at the Centre Hall Lions Club, 153 E. Church Street, Centre Hall, PA 16828, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sign in begins at 9:30 that morning. Free lunch and morning refreshments will be provided. The workshop is free but registration is required. Click here for the event brochure. To register, please email Frank Rohrer at frohrer@cbf.org or call 570-295-6164 by March 6.
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