Juniata County Conservation District Completes Buffer-in-a-Basket Project

Written by Shannon Wehinger on January 20, 2017. Posted in Conservation District Project Spotlight, Mini-grant

Patti Irwin (left) and Pam Masters (right) load up the young trees they each received after attending Juniata County Conservation District’s (JCCD) Buffer-In-A-Basket workshop, detailing the importance of riparian buffers in non-point source pollution reduction. Photo provided by JCCD.

Through PACD’s Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant Program, the Juniata County Conservation District (JCCD) planted 170 trees. The “Lost Creek Landowners Buffer-in-a-Basket” project worked with landowners in the Lost Creek Watershed to plant trees in streamside locations.

 A workshop was held in October and trees were distributed to plant as buffers on the landowners property.

Financial and other support for this project 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.